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Final Year Graduate Students: New Diversity Scholarship Available!

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AGI Invites Applications for New Scholarship for Advancing Diversity in the Geoscience Profession

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce its new Scholarship for Advancing Diversity in the Geoscience Profession. The scholarship is a one-time $5,000 award supporting geoscience graduate studies by a U.S. citizen or permanent resident who self-identifies as a member of an underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color) and is within two semesters of completing a recognized geoscience program.

“The geosciences can thrive only with full participation from all communities, yet research shows that many underrepresented minority students face obstacles in the transition from undergraduate to graduate studies,” says AGI Interim Executive Director Sharon Tahirkheli. “Supporting the next generation of aspiring minority geoscientists has perhaps never been more important.”

The application deadline is February 21, 2021. The scholarship winner will be notified in April 2021. To learn more, see https://www.americangeosciences.org/workforce/agi-scholarship-advancing-diversity-geoscience-profession. If you have questions, please contact AGI Geoscience Profession and Higher Education Director Christopher Keane at keane@americangeosciences.org.

About AGI
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI), a federation of scientific and professional associations representing over a quarter-million geoscientists, is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to serving the geoscience community and addressing the needs of society. AGI headquarters are in Alexandria, Virginia.

Comment on CEOS CARD4L-Aquatic Reflectance until Nov 20th!

The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) needs your feedback!  Now is YOUR chance to review and contribute to the draft Product Specification for Aquatic Reflectance for CEOS Analysis Ready Data, which is now open for community comment and contributions.  Please email any comments, suggested edits, or additions to lsi@lists.ceos.org.  Contributions are strongly recommended to be submitted by November 20th, but it is possible to add comments through mid-December.

Group on Earth Observations Indigenous Summit 2020

The GEO Indigenous Summit 2020

7-9 December 2020

Online

Join Indigenous leaders from around the world as they discuss Indigenous-led innovation in Earth observations data, science and technology. This will build on the GEO Indigenous hackathon, bringing together Indigenous knowledge and state-of-the-art science and technology, as well as the global GEO community.

No registration required! Open to everyone, everywhere!

Themes: COVID-19, Women Empowerment, Education, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Knowledge Transfer.

Lightning talks session:  Lightning talks are 3 minutes pre-recorded presentations related to the themes of the Summit. To submit an abstract complete this form by the 25th of November 23:59 CEST

Please mark your calendars for this virtual event, and be sure to:

Organizing Committee:

  • Titus Letaapo (Samburu tribe, Kenya)
  • James Rattling Leaf Sr. (Rosebud Sioux tribe, South Dakota, US)
  • Mario Vargas Shakaim (Shuar Nation, Ecuadorian Amazon)
  • Diana Mastracci (GEO Secretariat, Communications consultant)
  • Steven Ramage (GEO Secretariat, Head of External Relations)

 

OSOS2 Call for Abstracts Open through March 1, 2021

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

SECOND INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONAL SATELLITE OCEANOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM

25-27 May 2021, Virtual Meeting

The Executive Steering and Programme Committees are pleased to invite you to the second international Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium (OSOS-2) to be held in a virtual format, on 25-27 May 2021.

The second OSO Symposium will build on our first gathering in June 2019 of community members involved in all levels of the observation-to-information value chain, from data providers to users, of operational satellite oceanographic data, products and applications.

The Programme Committee will build up the program based on selected abstracts. The call for abstracts is now open with the deadline 1 March 2021.

Abstracts can be submitted online through the conference website.

You can register to the conference using the online registration tool on the meeting website. The registration deadline is 15 May 2021.

For more information, please have a look at the attached announcement or visit our website: https://www.eventsforce.net/osos2021.

Please also pass this announcement on to colleagues and contacts who would also be interested in participating.

Should you have any questions, please do contact the organising committee at osos@eumetsat.int.

 

NOAA Virtual Stakeholder Workshop Nov 17-20, 2020

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), and the Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GEO-XO) Program are conducting targeted stakeholder outreach efforts to better understand the jobs of the end users and identify how remote sensing data can best support the decisions and operations of the entire user community. As part of our ongoing efforts, we are engaging users in workshops, interviews, and surveys as a way of gathering data to inform the next generation of geostationary observations, due to launch in 2030. We welcome your contributions to these efforts as they will help us to better understand your needs and ensure the next generation of satellites can support your roles in society.

We are hosting our virtual workshop focusing on Oceans from November 17 – 20, 2020. Please RSVP for this workshop by filling out the registration form available here to help us understand more about you and your role within the oceans community. We will post details about this event on the event website.

Oceans Event Logistics

All topical workshops will be conducted virtually using Microsoft Teams. After your RSVP is received, you will receive a calendar invitation to the event with the following details providing session access information and all associated logistics:

Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 11 AM – 12 PM EST

Plenary Opening Session

Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 1 – 4 PM EST

Discussion Session #1: Ocean Life

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 12 – 3 PM EST

Discussion Session #2: Water Quality

Thursday, November 19, 2020, 12 – 3 PM EST

Discussion Session #3: Monitoring Physical Ocean Properties

Friday, November 20, 2020, 11:30 AM – 2 PM EST

Discussion Session #4: Climate Impacts to Oceans

Friday, November 20, 2020, 3 – 4:30 PM EST

Plenary Closing Session

What We Are Asking

This workshop is the fifth of a series of User Needs Workshops examining user needs and perspectives across a broad array of application areas. Results from these workshops will help NOAA better understand how decisions are made in topical areas and the information that best supports the user’s decisions, roles and responsibilities in society.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to Vanessa Escobar directly or to the User Engagement Team with any questions. You can reach us either by replying to this email or by sending a message to GEOXOUserNeeds@cadmusgroup.com. We thank you in advance for your time and participation and look forward to working with you on this and future efforts.

Sincerely,

Vanessa Escobar Lead Scientist, NOAA/NASA GEO-XO User Engagement

and the GEO-XO User Engagement Team