[tdwg] Workshop: Promoting Synergy in the Innovative Use of Environmental Data

[Simpson, Annie]

Colleagues:

NatureServe and USGS are co-organizing an NSF-funded workshop that is
convening a broad cross section of fields – federal natural resource
management and conservation agencies, academics, NGOs, private sector,
citizen science leaders – to engage in a needs assessment for generating
national biogeospatial data layers. This workshop, which has the lengthy
title of "Promoting synergy in the innovative use of environmental data
across academia, non-profits, local and state governments, industry and the
Federal government," is intended to provide a big step forward in
identifying regional, national, and continental scale spatial datasets on
biodiversity, vegetation, climate, and environment to support cross
jurisdictional decision making. It is being held in Washington, DC, this
December 2-4, just 2 weeks from now.

We have commitments already from a broad and diverse set of leaders among
the major federal agencies, so it will be a great relationship building
opportunity as well. There are only a few spaces left, but if you would be
available to come to DC to engage in these national scale data issues, we
would be pleased to have your participation.

More info and the registration button can be found here:
http://www.natureserve.org/news-events/events/promoting-synergy-innovative-use-environmental-data

Very limited travel funding is still available for non-federal
participants. Please email healy_hamilton at natureserve.org for details.
Interested federal employees should contact Annie_Simpson at usgs.gov.

Best regards,

Healy Hamilton, NatureServe <http://www.natureserve.org/> Chief Scientist
Gerald (Stinger) Guala, Director of BISON <http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/> and
ITIS <http://www.itis.gov/>, U.S. Geological Survey
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg/attachments/20151118/9c78e2b9/attachment.html