[ESIP-all] Putting Data to Work: Ed Kearns on Quantifying & Communicating Climate Change Risk at First Street (10/8)

Megan Carter megancarter at esipfed.org
Thu Oct 1 11:33:27 EDT 2020


The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP <http://esipfed.org/>) present
the 2020 webinar series:

Putting Data to Work: Building Public-Private Partnerships to Increase
Resilience & Enhance the Socioeconomic Value of Data



*Quantifying and Communicating Climate Change Risk at First Street (Thurs.
October 8th at 3 pm ET)*The First Street Foundation is quantifying and
communicating the flood and inundation risks posed by a changing
environment.  First Street has created a nation-wide assessment of flood
risk for the contiguous United States (CONUS) and the District of Columbia,
and is now sharing that assessment for free with the public through Flood
Factor(TM <http://floodfactor.com/>). Risk scores for each of the
approximately 142 million properties in CONUS were built upon open data
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United
States Geological Survey (USGS), the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE),
and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Flood risk from rivers,
precipitation, sea level rise, and coastal storms have been combined into a
single risk assessment methodology to raise individuals' awareness of their
risks, and empower them to take steps to reduce their current and future
flood risk exposure.

*Dr. Ed Kearns *is the Chief Data Officer of First Street Foundation, and
as such, provides leadership for the organization’s science and data
activities. Dr. Kearns previously served as Chief Data Officer for the U.S.
Department of Commerce, overseeing the governance and management of data
assets from its 12 bureaus. Appointed as NOAA’s first Chief Data Officer in
2017, he has led the development of strategies and practices for managing
NOAA’s data as a national asset. Kearns promotes new uses and wider
understanding of federal data through new public-private partnerships and
technologies, such as the NOAA Big Data Project. As a workgroup leader for
the White House’s Leveraging Data as a Strategic Asset initiative, he
helped develop the new Federal Data Strategy. Previously, Dr. Kearns led
climate data and archive activities for NOAA; guided Everglades restoration
projects for the National Park Service; calibrated NASA satellite-based
ocean data products; and developed ocean data systems as a professor at the
University of Miami. Dr. Kearns holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics and
Marine Science from the University of Miami, and a Doctorate of Philosophy
in Physical Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island.

*Host: *This webinar is being hosted by the ESIP Information Technology &
Interoperability Committee (IT&I)
<https://wiki.esipfed.org/Interoperability_and_Technology/Tech_Dive_Webinar_Series>
during their monthly Tech Dive.
*Join:* See connection details here
<https://www.esipfed.org/get-involved/telecon-calendar>.

Learn more about ESIP's 2020 webinar series and access past webinars here
<https://www.esipfed.org/webinars>.
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