Meeting a Titanic Challenge for Oceans
What have we learned after 100 years? On April 15, 1912, more than 1,500 passengers and crew aboard the RMS Titanic perished at sea in one of the most infamous maritime disasters in all of human...
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Esri’s Ocean GIS Initiative
On a planet where 71 percent of the surface is covered by water, the oceans are critical for life itself. They feed us, regulate our weather patterns, provide over half of the oxygen that we breathe,...
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Big Data, GIS, and the Academic Community
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...
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Esri Convenes Historic Oceans Summit
This past week (November 7-8, 2012), we held the first and only Esri Oceans Summit at Esri headquarters in Redlands. This was an invitation-only, high-level strategy workshop attended by intermediate...
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Bridging the Gap Between Scientists and Policy Makers: Whither Geospatial?
“We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so...
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Esri and the Scientific Community
At Esri we are concerned with supporting basic and applied science, but we also recognize that there are many major themes of compelling interest to society that will drive scientific research for the...
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What is CyberGIS?
In an earlier post, I had mentioned Esri’s involvement in the large National Science Foundation-funded project known as CyberGIS, which aims to establish a fundamentally new software framework via a...
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The Face of Our Earth: Esri’s New Partnership with GEOSS
Last Update: January 26, 2014 In early January, we heard quite a bit about the polar vortex (not a new term, by the way) as North America struggled with some of the most frigid and dangerous...
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Does EarthCube Hold the “Keys to the Kingdom” of Earth Science Data?
With all the recent excitement and good hopes over the White House Climate Data Initiative, and the ongoing progress of the Group on Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), there is another huge...
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Speaking the “Language” of Spatial Analysis via Story Maps
Last update: December 6, 2014 Spatial analysis has always been a hallmark of GIS, the “numerical recipes” which set GIS apart from other forms of computerized visualization and information management....
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What is “Transformative” Research?
Next-generation techniques are already changing the way we do science. Recently the National Academy of Sciences convened a Workshop on Identifying Transformative Research in the Geographical...
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Before Time Runs Out: An Ocean of Information for Climate Resilience
Recent innovations in information, analyses, and science-policy linkages can help guide the planet towards a more resilient future. For many of us when we think about the ocean, it’s a situation of...
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Have I Been a Data Scientist from the Start?
Parallels between the GIScience Community in the Early 1990s and the Current State of Data Science I came of age in the early 1990s, as the technology driving geographic information systems (GIS) was...
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Esri and the Scientific Community: Year in Review/The Year Ahead
Science at Esri continues to be an exciting initiative where we are concerned with supporting both basic and applied science, while also recognizing that there are many major themes of compelling...
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Living Atlas Resources for Earth Science Week and Beyond
It is Earth Science Week! Since October 1998, the American Geosciences Institute has organized this national and international event to help the public gain appreciation and understanding of Earth...
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Announcing the 2016 Esri Science Symposium
Special keynote address, discussion panel, and reception to engage and enlighten scientists A special Science Symposium will be held in conjunction with the 2016 Esri Education GIS Conference (EdUC)...
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Inaugural Esri Science Symposium Crystallizes Community
Scientists Gather to Discuss the Impact of GIS in Future and Present Challenges Esri has always embraced the intellectual domain. So when it became evident that User Conference attendees beyond...
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GIS Makes the Picture Clearer on Climate Change
The Arctic environment is a leading indicator of climate change. The shifts that will eventually affect the entire globe are among the most visible there. A comprehensive understanding of the shifts...
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Esri Teams up with XPRIZE to Advance Sea Floor Mapping
by Jyotika I. Virmani, Senior Director of Energy and Environment for XPRIZE and Dawn Wright, Esri Chief Scientist Over 60% of the Earth’s surface has not yet been mapped. The ocean covers 70% of our...
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Esri Among Leaders Exploring Future at White House Frontiers Conference
Last week President Obama hosted the first-ever White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh, an event co-hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Esri was among many...
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