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AntArchitecture: towards the continent-wide integration of radar-sounded internal surfaces to reconstruct Antarctica’s climate history
Robert G. Bingham, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Martin J Siegert, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Joseph A MacGregor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Edward J Brook, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States
DOE's Strategic Developments at the Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface Under a Changing Climate.
Gerald L Geernaert, Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, United States and Jared L DeForest, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, DC, United States
EMSL: A User Facility for Environmental Molecular Science Research -  Expand your research possibilities
Maggie Mae Bowman1, Ljiljana Paša-Tolić2, Timothy D Scheibe1 and Kirsten S. Hofmockel1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States(2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Enabling Development of a Community-Based Cyberinfrastructure with Task-Oriented Working Groups
Gerald L Geernaert, Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, United States, John D Moulton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and David P Lesmes, USGS, Water Mission Area, Reston, United States
International Ocean Bottom Seismometer Experiments and Data
Kasey Aderhold, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States, Vala Hjorleifsdottir, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico, Lukas Joeressen, K.U.M. Umwelt- und Meerestechnik Kiel GmbH, Kiel, Germany, Frauke Klingelhoefer, Geo-Ocean, Univ Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, UMR6538, Plouzané, France, Yann Hello, Géoazur - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Research and Development, Valbonne, France, Guust Nolet, Géoazur - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France, Yoshihiro Ito, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Ching-ren Lin, Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, Heiner Igel, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany, Hisashi Utada, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan and Guilhem Barruol, IGE, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France
NASA SnowEx - Enhancing new sensing technologies to retrieve snow water equivalent in forested and other lands
Do-Hyuk DK Kang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, United States
Negative Emissions Technologies: New Developments and Scientific Challenges
Margaret S Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Christopher B Field, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, Katharine J Mach, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States, Josep Gili Canadell, CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Greg H Rau, University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Noah Deich, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Nebojsa Nakicenovic, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
New Opportunities for Collaborative Marine Scientific Research in the Pacific and Indian Ocean with the Launch of New Global-Ocean-Class Research Vessel, Isabu
Sang-Mook Lee1, SungHyun Nam2, Sok Kuh Kang3, Gi-Hoon Hong4 and Youn-Ho Lee4, (1)Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)(2)Seoul National University, Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul, South Korea(3)KIOST, Ocean Circulation and Climate Research Center, Ansan, South Korea(4)KIOST Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Ansan, Korea, Republic of (South)
Strategies for Attracting and Advancing a Diverse Geoscience Workforce
Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Aisha R. Morris, UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Seti Sidharta, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA, United States, Robert Cooper Liebermann, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Ashanti Johnson, STEM Human Resource Development, Office of the President, Cedar Hill, TX, United States and Melissa A Burt, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Kickoff Conversation on the Importance of Data in the Earth and Space Sciences:  A Conversation with Rebecca Moore, Director of Google Earth, Earth Engine & Outreach
Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Open Science Leadership, Washington, DC, United States and Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
NASA Earth Science Division Town Hall
Jack A Kaye1, Michael H Freilich2, Lawrence Friedl3, George Komar4, Patricia A Jacobberger-Jellison2, Sandra Cauffman2, Eric Ianson5 and Thomas Zurbuchen6, (1)NASA Headquarters, SMD/Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States(2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(3)NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States(4)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States(5)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States(6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
SCOSTEP Town Hall Meeting - Future directions for solar-terrestrial physics research
Marianna G Shepherd, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
The Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research
April M Melvin, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board, Washington, DC, United States, Barbara J Finlayson-Pitts, University of California Irvine, Chemistry, Irvine, United States, William H Brune, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, Sylvia Edgerton, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, Monika Kopacz, NOAA, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Sherri Hunt, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, United States and John V Cortinas Jr, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States; NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, United States
AGU Data Fair: Data Skills Recommended for Researchers and Scientists
Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Open Science Leadership, Washington, DC, United States, Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, CO, United States, Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Arfon Smith, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and John Leeman, Leeman Geophysical, Siloam Springs, United States
Arctic-COLORS (Coastal Land Ocean Interactions): A NASA field campaign scoping study
Peter J Hernes, University of California - Davis, Davis, United States, Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, United States, Patricia Matrai, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States, Joseph Salisbury II, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States and Maria Tzortziou, CUNY City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, United States
Critical Zone Observatories: Platforms for Collaborative Science
Timothy S White, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, William H McDowell, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, NH, United States and Susan L Brantley, Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States
Future Earth – Research Agenda and Opportunities for Global Sustainability
Thorsten Kiefer, Future Earth, Global Secretariat Hub, Paris, France, Bruce Christopher Glavovic, Massey University, School of People, Environment and Planning, Palmeston North, New Zealand, Eileen E Hofmann, Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States, Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Joshua Tewksbury, Future Earth, Colorado Global Hub, Boulder / Fort Collins, CO, United States and Maria E Uhle, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Arlington, VA, United States
Integration of the IODP Expeditions 350, 351, and 352 for comprehensive understanding of the arc evolution and continental crust formation
Yoshihiko Tamura, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Cathy Busby, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Richard J Arculus, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia, Osamu Ishizuka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan, Mark K Reagan, University of Iowa, Department of Geoscience, Iowa City, IA, United States and Julie Prytulak, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
NASA Sea Level Change Team Town Hall
R Steven Nerem, University of Colorado at Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States and Carmen Blackwood, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
NSF Division of Polar Programs Town Hall
Colene M Haffke, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States and Eric S Saltzman, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States; University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
PACE:  NASA's Next Generation Aerosol, Cloud and Ocean Color Satellite Mission
Stephanie Schollaert Uz1, Jeremy Werdell2, Paula S Bontempi3, Hal B Maring4, Woody Turner4, Ali H Omar5 and Lorraine Remer6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(3)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States(4)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States(6)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States
Study Update: ESAS 2017, The 2017-2027 Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space
Arthur Charo, Space Studies Board, Washington, DC, United States; US National Research Council of the National Academies, Washington, DC, United States, Waleed Abdalati, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States and William B Gail, Global Weather Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States
Town Hall for Next Generation JAXA/NASA/ESA Solar Physics Mission
David E. McKenzie, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Steven W Clarke, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Masaki Fujimoto, ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan and Luigi Colangeli, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Advancing Global Water Sustainability
Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States and Bradley Doorn, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources & Agriculture, Washington, United States
How is NASA opening up options for obtaining Earth System Science Measurements from Non-Governmental Small Satellite sources?
Christine K Bonniksen1, Michael S Seablom2, William J Blackwell3, Christina Moats-Xavier4 and Michael H Freilich1, (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States(3)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States(4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Latest News on NSF Geosciences
Roger M Wakimoto, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States and Roger Wakimoto, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) Town Hall
Alexander C Ruane, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States, Bruno Basso, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States and Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, Department of Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States
The European Research Council:  Attractive Funding Opportunities for Individual Scientists
Andreas Keil, European Research Council, Scientific Management Department, Brussels, Belgium and Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
Utilizing Online Streaming Data from the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative
Greg Ulses, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, DC, United States, Deborah S Kelley, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, Jack A Barth, Oregon State University, Marine Studies Initiative, Corvallis, OR, United States, Albert J Plueddemann, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States and Robert A Weller, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
AGU Data Fair: Data Management Plan Development and Management Best Practices
Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Open Science Leadership, Washington, DC, United States, Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Carly Strasser, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Stephanie Simms, California Digital Library, Oakland, CA, United States, Mary A Voytek, NASA, Washington, DC, United States, Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, CO, United States and Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
EarthScope Science and Synthesis
Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Maite Agopian, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Giant sediment coring for Paleoceanography studies
Helene Leau, IPEV French Polar Institute, Oceanography, Brest, France and Yvan Reaud, IPEV French Polar Institute, Oceanography, Brest, France
Earthcube: A Community-Driven Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences
Mohan K Ramamurthy, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Unidata, Boulder, CO, United States, Kerstin Lehnert, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Eva E Zanzerkia, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
In Pursuit of More Effective Decisions and Societal Benefits Using NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 Data - Town Hall
Sabrina Delgado Arias, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. - NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Thomas Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Vanessa M Escobar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Science Systems and Applications, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Michael F Jasinski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Frederick S Policelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
SPA Early Career - NASA Leadership Mixer
Elizabeth MacDonald1, Steven W Clarke2, Peg Luce2, Ramona Kessel3, Jeff Morrill2 and Elsayed R Talaat4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(3)NASA, Washington, DC, United States(4)NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
NASA Operation IceBridge Open Town Hall Meeting
Nathan T Kurtz1, Joseph A MacGregor2, Eric J Rignot3, Thomas Paul Wagner4, Thorsten Markus2 and Jacqueline Richter-Menge5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Science Lab, Greenbelt, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States(4)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(5)US Army Corps of Engineers Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Toward an interagency collaborative modeling framework for multi-sector, multi-stressor, multi-scale impacts and adaptation analysis
Gerald L Geernaert, Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, United States and Robert Vallario, Department of Energy, Washington, United States
U.S. Group on Earth Observations (USGEO) Town Hall
Jason Gallo, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Washington, DC, United States, Suzette M Kimball, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, Patrick Harr, National Science Foundation, Arlington, United States, Jeff de La Beaujardière, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, ACIO-S, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Barbara Jane Ryan, GEO Group on Earth Observations (former), Bonita Springs, FL, United States
Strategic Direction for the Future of AGU's Meetings Program
Lauren Parr, American Geophysical Union, Washington, United States, Denis-Didier Rousseau, CNRS, Géosciences Montpellier, Paris Cedex 16, France and Richard J Murnane, World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
AGU Data Fair: Research Reproducibility Techniques
Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Open Science Leadership, Washington, DC, United States, Ted Habermann, Metadata Game Changers, Boulder, United States, Clifford A Jacobs, Consultant, Washington, DC, United States, Fernando Perez, University of California Berkeley, Statistics, Berkeley, CA, United States, Suzanne A Pierce, University of Texas at Austin, Environmental Sciences Institute, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, CO, United States, Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Atmospheric Rivers - A Discussion of the Definition Under Development for the Glossary of Meteorology
F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Lance F Bosart, University at Albany State University of New York, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, United States, Bin Guan, University of California, Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, Alexander Gershunov, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States and Allen B White, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Developing the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report - Interagency engagement opportunities with the community
Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States, Daniel B Stover, Department of Energy Germantown, Washington, United States and Kathy A Hibbard, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Future of tectonics and structural geology: NSF-sponsored white-paper effort
Marin Kristen Clark, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Richard Allmendinger, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Eric Cowgill, University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Rebecca J Dorsey, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, Laurel Goodwin, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Kate Huntington, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Keith Klepeis, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, Yvette D Kuiper, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Kevin H Mahan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States, James A Spotila, Virginia PolyTech Inst State U, Blacksburg, United States and Basil Tikoff, Univ Wisconsin, Madison, United States
Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC): The next 5-years of Federally-funded Arctic Research
Sara Bowden1, Martin O. Jeffries2, William D. Brown3, Simon N Stephenson1, Allison C McComiskey4, Jacqueline Richter-Menge5 and IARPC Town Hall Panel, (1)Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee, Arlington, VA, United States(2)Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, United States(3)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of Interior, Washington, DC, United States(4)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States(5)U.S. Arctic Research Commission & University of Alaska Fairbanks, Hanover, NH, United States
Requirements for improving coordination of ice sheet observation and modeling-based activities
Gerald L Geernaert, Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, United States, Dorothy M Koch, Department of Energy Germantown, Germantown, MD, United States and Thomas Paul Wagner, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Awards & Grants Advancing Your Early Earth Science Career: Multi-agency Perspectives
Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Ph.D., Carboneers, LLC, Oakton, United States, Nancy Cavallaro, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States, Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Karina V Schafer, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States and Libby K Larson, NASA, Washington, United States
Connecting HDF Communities
Ted Habermann, Metadata Game Changers, Boulder, United States, James A Smith, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States, Derick Hess, IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center, Socorro, NM, United States, Jialin Liu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Danny Price, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Pete Bunting, Aberystwyth University, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Data Rescue in the Earth & Space Sciences and the International Data Rescue Award 2016
Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
GeoPolicy Connect - A New Initiative to Bridge the Science and Policy Divide
Alexandra Shultz, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
What Ocean Science and Technology Should the U.S. Advance in the Next Decade? An Open Panel Discussion of the Next Federal Ocean Research Plan
Richard W Murray, National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, Arlington, VA, United States; National Science and Technology Council, Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology, Washington, DC, United States and Jack A Kaye, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States