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Webinar March 3rd: Leveraging Commercial Space for Earth and Ocean Remote Sensing

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine Webinar
Thursday, March 3 from 2:30-3:30pm ET

Rapid technology innovation is dramatically changing the space industry across both government and commercial sectors. By re-imagining and continuously improving SmallSat technology, an expanding New Space ecosystem is now in place that is capable of serving a broad space stakeholder community of traditional as well as new or nontraditional users.

Please join us for a webinar on a new National Academies’ report, Leveraging Commercial Space for Earth and Ocean Remote Sensing, on Thursday, March 3 from 2:30-3:30pm ET. The report identifies options for public-private partnerships and other innovative acquisition approaches for the government to achieve cost, schedule, and technical benefits across a wide range of science and intelligence applications. During the webinar, members of the committee will discuss the report’s key findings and recommendations and take questions from the audience.
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3-part ARSET Training – Supporting the Global Stocktake May 11/18/25, 2022

This three-part webinar series will introduce bottom-up and top-down methods for tracking emissions and removals of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) from the atmosphere. This training will explore how to combine this information to produce a more complete and transparent global stocktake, and support efforts to reduce net emissions and mitigate their impact on the climate.

Find out more about all AREST trainings here.

DESCRIPTION

To support the 2023 Global Stocktake (GST), Parties to the Paris Agreement are compiling inventories of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals to assess their collective progress towards the long-term objectives of the Agreement. The Global Stocktake is the process of monitoring the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The outcome of the GST will provide Parties the information needed to update and enhance their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the global response to climate change and strengthen international cooperation for climate action.

Demonstrations will be provided on how top-down atmospheric budgets of CO2 and CH4 can be derived from atmospheric measurements and inverse models to produce a transparent description of their emissions and removals. Participants will also be introduced to pilot products and how information contained in these top-down atmospheric products can supplement bottom-up inventory products to assess the accuracy and completeness of emissions reports on regional, national, and local scales.

AGENDA

REGISTER SESSION A 10:00 – 12:00 EDT (UTC-4)

REGISTER SESSION B 15:00 – 17:00 EDT (UTC-4)

OBJECTIVE

By the end of this training attendees will be able to:

  • Recognize the need to monitor CO2, CH4, and other greenhouse gases to support efforts to reduce net emissions and mitigate their impact on climate
  • Describe how top-down CO2 and CH4 budgets can be derived using atmospheric measurements and inverse models
  • Relate how the products and methods described can be combined with bottom-up inventories to identify opportunities for improving GHG inventories to support future GSTs
AUDIENCE

This webinar series is intended for stakeholders at local, regional, and national levels who are interested in managing greenhouse gas emissions to meet the climate change mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement, national inventory developers, and researchers who are interested in developing top-down atmospheric greenhouse gas budgets and working with the inventory development and assessment communities to support the global stocktake process.

SESSIONS
Part 1: Tracking Greenhouse Gases
  • Paris Agreement and mitigation objectives
  • Global Stocktake
  • Bottom-up and top-down emissions inventories
Part 2: Creating Top-Down Atmospheric Budgets of CO2 and CH4 on Policy-Relevant Scales
  • Emission and removal of CO2 and CH4
  • Space-based, airborne, and ground-based measurements of CO2 and CH4
  • Inverse modeling
Part 3: Top-Down Budgets and Bottom-Up Inventories to Support the Global Stocktake
  • Best practices for use in assessing progress towards Paris Agreement goals
  • Strengths, weaknesses, and future opportunities
  • Case studies
PREREQUISITES

United States Coastal Research Program (USCRP) Postdoc! Apply by Feb 28

USCRP is thrilled to announce this opportunity which seeks candidates that will research advancements, outcomes, and opportunities for transitioning USCRP academic research into practice, based on documentation from the first 50 funded USCRP research projects. Successful applicants will document research findings, scientific advancements, benefits to coastal communities, as well as metrics on the number of students trained, follow-on studies, and number of students seeking Federal employment following project completion. End products will be a journal paper documenting findings, recommendations, and communication products. The closing date of the application has been extended to February 28th, 2022.
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