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At Esri we are concerned not only with supporting basic and applied science, but recognize that there are many major themes of compelling interest to society that will drive scientific research for the next two decades. Four of these are [on the slide]. And thus we view science as helping us to understand much more than soley “how the Earth works” but ! How the Earth works! (process) How the Earth should look! (design) How we should look AT the Earth! (data) """

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There are many natural science domains in which GIS is being used effectively to understand how the Earth works.

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And the dominating force of humanity begs the question of how the Earth should LOOK. This is especially with regard to landscape architecture, urban planning, land use planning and zoning, and ocean/coastal management. These involve decisions that must be made by policy makers and require the use geospatial data and geographical analysis. And along these lines GEODESIGN is cross-cutting many scholarly disciplines, bridging the natural with the social sciences. Geodesign in helping us to understand how the Earth should LOOK, will continue to make an impact in the sustainability world, leveraging geographic information and scientific modeling, and integrating design directly into GIS workflows in an interactive and iterative process. The goal is to make future designs for urban areas, watersheds, protected areas, and the like that will more closely follow natural systems and result in less harmful impacts.

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Then there is how we should look AT the Earth. Successfully addressing these scientific problems requires integrative and innovative approaches to analyzing, modeling, and developing extensive and diverse data sets. The current chaotic distribution of available data sets, lack of documentation about them, and lack of easy-to-use access tools and computer modeling and analysis codes are still major obstacles for scientists and educators alike. GIS plays a big role here as it extends our minds by abstracting our world into those knowledge objects that we can create and maintain—data; imagery; models that explain process and workflows; and maps, which communicate and are persisted in apps. There is great potential for creating a kind of systematic framework for collective understanding if we could just bring it together more seamlessly.

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Along these lines, Esri is fairly well known as a vendor of GIS technology to research labs, universities, and other places where great science is done. One of my primary roles as chief scientist is to help establish Esri as MEMBER of the scientific community as well.

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In order to bring Esri to the table as a bona fide MEMBER of the scientific community we currently maintain representation on various scientific boards and councils.

- FACA = Federal Advisory Committee Act, highest level of service to govt for academics - NOAA Science Advisory Board, http://www.sab.noaa.gov - Nat. Academy of Sciences Board, Ocean Studies Board – Chief Scientist in middle of 3-year term, http://dels.nas.edu/osb

Chief scientist just appointed to Exec. Committee liaison to Mapping Science Committee, formerly chaired by Mike

Goodchild of UCSB, now by David Maidment of U-Texas Board members always serve on a National Academy Study

Committee too - Esri recently joined the World Ocean Council* - this is an INDUSTRY council to promote ocean sustainability and stewardship, made up mainly of oli companies (Shell, Exxon, etc.), shipping companies, commercial fishing companies. Esri is now one of three IT companies on this council of 50 members, http://www.oceancouncil.org/site/

Smart Oceans/Smart Industries working group Marine Spatial Planning working group

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- Esri was accepted to the Consortium for Ocean Leadership by majority vote.This is an ACADEMIC council - most powerful body for ocean science advocacy & advancement, on Capitol Hill, http://www.oceanleadership.org -! NSF EarthCube initiative – this is not a singular project or program but a

broad initiative seeking to change how science is done across the geosciences because of a new, improved cyberinfrastructure that NSF will foster development of via funding of innovative research. No one platform will be adopted by anyone. There will be a huge myriad of approaches. But this is one that the Chief Scientist watches on behalf of Esri so that we can make support several major players that may be funded once NSF gets grant dollars from Congress, http://earthcube.ning.com

-! Integrated Earth Data Applications of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia U., is an NSF-funded, community-based data facility holding one of largest holdings of bathymetry data from ocean science community, http://www.iedadata.org

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This is an example of Esri advisory board service on a specific PROJECT. This project, funded by the Mars Corporation, seeks to enhance the sustainability of global agricultural raw materials sourcing across the supply chain. The purpose of this work is to assist food companies and other stakeholders by creating scientifically-validated frameworks and a platform to advance sustainability in agricultural sourcing decisions. It involves a critical review of sustainability issues, best practices and indicators of key dimensions of food system sustainability at various scales (field-level to global). They are developing GIS web map and decision-support-tool components of the effort.

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In 2012 we launched an Ocean GIS initiative across the entire Esri organization. As part of this initiative, Esri is expanding from an initial emphasis on nautical chart production and applications for commercial shipping, maritime defense/intelligence, and offshore energy (e.g., oil and gas, wind energy) to ocean science and resource management. Esri is pursuing a greater engagement with the ocean science community, as complex ocean science questions and data are increasingly used to inform the responsible use and governance of the oceans, as well as effective management and conservation. To support a better understanding of our oceans, Esri is focused on improving and expanding its products, tools, services, partnerships, and connections with the broader ocean community. More information is available in the e-book at the web address above, or see the new Oceans Resource Center at http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/oceans/

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Esri working in very close collaboration with the Will McClintock Lab at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) Center for Marine Assessment and Planning to deliver a cutting-edge decision support tool for effective ocean planning for a range of end users, including government, industries, and regional institutions. SeaSketch is all about collaborative geodesign for coastal and marine spatial planning. A prototype was shown at 2012 Esri User Conference, initial beta testing completed by the New Zealand Dept of Conservation in their own marine spatial planning process for the Hauraki Gulf, and then full core functions were completed by November 2012. Users must go to seasketch.org to use this Software as a Service platform. The platform is based on the ArcGIS API for JavaScript and leverages ArcGIS Online and the Esri Ocean Basemap.

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Core SeaSketch functions include real-time map and threaded discussions, shared views of design sketches on maps.

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A future version of SeaSketch will incorporate a much larger suite of spatial analytics, including spatial dimensions of tradeoffs among potentially conflicting resources, services, sectors, and times. The diagram on the right shows how users may submit their sketches (design plans) to a biological-economic model of tradeoffs between ecosystem services in relation to potential management strategies (e.g., tourism, conservation, energy development, lobster fishing, whales, etc.). This is based in part of the study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: White, C., Halpern, B. S., and Kappel, C. V., 2012, Ecosystem service tradeoff analysis reveals the value of marine spatial planning for multiple ocean uses: Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., v. 108,. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1114215109.

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Esri partners with U-Texas-Austin, Kisters, OGC, the USGS, CUASHI, and others in this project seeking to -! Bring together water information for the whole earth -! All spatial scales: global, regional, local -! Both geospatial and temporal information -! Linking data and modeling - Everything on the web (http://worldwateronoine.org)

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Esri has just begun a new collaboration with Professor Barbara Minsker’s group at U. of Illinois around social and economical implications of water usage water usage, management, and green infrastructure. Direct result of Esri briefing. She already partners with David Maidment of the U. of Texas-Austin, a very close Esri collaborative partner. Their group monitors real-time water usage as it relates to conservation, storms, rivers, and droughts. A major challenge for them is how to manage large quantities of information coming in from multiple sources.

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Esri has just begun a new collaboration with Professors Serge Rei, Luc Anselin, and their students at the GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University, on a deeper integration of PySAL into the Esri ArcGIS platform. PySal is an open-source suite of spatial analytical tools (e.g., spatial autocorrelation, spatial econometrics, computational geometry including Voronoi diagramming, and clustering analysis) programmed in the Python scripting language, thus allowing researchers to incorporate these analyses into their own application development environments.

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The CyberGIS Project is a $3.5M grant to Shaowen Wang at U. of Illinois and colleagues at ASU, UW, SDSC, and UCSB to establish CyberGIS as a fundamentally new software framework comprising a seamless integration of cyberinfrastructure, GIS, and spatial analysis/modeling capabilities. Includes partnership with Esri at no cost, + collaborations with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Map Project, international partnerships with several institutions in Australia, China, and the United Kingdom to effectively extend the benefits to the nation and society in significant ways. Esri provides technical advice and has representation on their advisory board. http://cybergis.cigi.uiuc.edu http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1047916&HistoricalAwards=false

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The Ocean Health Index is designed to take the pulse of the ocean to provide a quick set of vital signs (i.e., indicators that measure the intensity of the most urgent ocean stressors, including climate change, ocean acidification, overfishing, habitat degradation, invasive species, loss of biodiversity, pollution and eutrophication). These will help managers, policymakers, and the public quickly diagnose where problems lie and identify possible solutions. The project therefore seeks to bridge the science/policymaker divide. Esri has been involved in the project under the category of “corporate engagement for communication,” in league with Conservation International, Radical Media, and UCSB on the best methods of “spatializing” this information and presenting it in an web interface that literally maps out the OHI for each country of the world. A second phase of the project will provide maps of spatial trends in the underlying goals of the OHI for selected regions of the world. So when managers, policy makers, and the public would like to see specifically how their country scores, they may explore an additional series of thematic maps. Esri is in discussions with UCSB on the development of a GIS tools to accomplish this, and with Conservation International and Radical Media on mapping improvements for the current Ocean Health Index web site.

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We have been engaged with the Cornell Ornithology Lab, one of largest citizen science project in world.

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The Onithology Lab has discussed with our Esri spatial stats team how they might interface their own model results with other kinds of info and data that Esri has. In addition, they seek: - the ability to do more GIS spatial analyses more complex than simple visual analysis. Seek to incorporate spatial statistics to answer questions such as what proportion of species in a habitat in a land ownership area? - improvements to online tools for informing their next State of the Birds Report. They want their users to be able to explore various land ownership and responsibility overlays for different species.

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Leveraging open source code and solutions with Esri technology is something that the scientific community is very much interested in, so these resources are often of great interest. "

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Researchers today need to deal with an avalanche of data—from environmental sensor networks (both on land and at sea), social media feeds, LiDAR, and outputs from global- and regional-scale atmospheric circulation and general climate models and simulations. Because of this, “big data” has emerged as a major research theme for the academic community. In March, Esri developers released the GIS Tools for Hadoop Project on GitHub. The project contains an open source framework and API that enables big data developers to author custom spatial applications for Hadoop. The GIS Tools project also enables the ArcGIS platform to leverage big data on Hadoop using tools that combine custom Hadoop applications with the ArcGIS Geoprocessing environment. The project supports processing of simple vector data (Points, Lines, Polygons) and basic analysis operations, e.g. relationship analysis on that data, running in a Hadoop distributed processing environment.

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Many in the scientific community are interested in and participate in our Community Maps Program. This is in the spirit of crowdsourcing of authoritative content from the community, that Esri then hosts free in the cloud and for which contributors retain ownership and are acknowledged.

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In terms of GIS analysis directly within the web browser, the geo-analytics web services that Esri offers for hydrologic science are the most advanced.

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The Esri Resource Centers off much to the scientific community as well. These resource centers are organized by application domain (industry) or by technical approach. Each contains blogs, Twitter streams, discussion forums, videos, case studies, maps, apps, data, and documentation pre-selected to help users in that domain complete their work, without having to search through large volumes of content to find what applies to their application domain.

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StoryMaps allow scientists to make their data and analyses more accessible to their colleagues as well as to policy-makers and citizens. Think of the power of telling a 30-second elevator speech about your research to a funder or policy-maker as a story map! Templates and tutorials are available at the site above.

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Recently, Esri began hosting a series of geographic information science [i.e., GIScience] events at its headquarters, aimed at bringing together experts in cutting-edge topics such as space-time modeling [February 2010] and volunteered geographic information [February 2011] as well as smaller specialist meetings on topics of mutual research and development interest [an Oceans Summit in November 2013 by invitation only to key ocean scientists and technologists]. These are opportunities for the scientific community to come together and to communicate to Esri analysts and developers. We hope to have many more of these.

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Esri staffers also do great science themselves, and we have a new Zotero library online showcasing our publications.

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I hope that you have enjoyed this overview of some of the many ways the Esri is partnering with and supporting the scientific community. My apologies for not being able to present this in person, but please feel free to contact me with any further questions.

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