<div dir="ltr">Dear All, <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This Earthdata webinar on SEDAC's COVID-19 Map Viewer on Wednesday, 28 October, at 14:00 US eastern time may be of interest to some. To register click <a href="https://events-na8.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/1136900108/en/events/event/shared/3211242615/event_landing.html?connect-session=na8breez5d7pgy2e2zdophi3&sco-id=3211250170&_charset_=utf-8" target="_blank">here</a>. <div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Alex<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Brennan, Jennifer L. (GSFC-423.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jennifer.l.brennan@nasa.gov" target="_blank">jennifer.l.brennan@nasa.gov</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 3:03 PM<br>Subject: Fw: Announcing Webinar on 10/28/20: Topic- SEDAC Global COVID-19 Data Viewer<br>To: Alex de Sherbinin <<a href="mailto:adesherbinin@ciesin.columbia.edu" target="_blank">adesherbinin@ciesin.columbia.edu</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">I am writing to announce the “SEDAC’s Global COVID-19 Viewer: A User-Friendly Tool for Assessing National and Subnational Trends and Risk Factors in Coronavirus Spread”
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Webinar Date: 10/28/20</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> </span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Brief Description: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> Join us for an introduction to the NASA Socioeconomic
 Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Global COVID-19 Viewer, a map-based tool for understanding the spread of the Coronavirus and underlying risk factors. During the webinar participants will learn about its development and then a live demonstration of the
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</span><b>Dr. Alex de Sherbinin, Associate Director for Science Applications at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#323232;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">Dr. de Sherbinin is a geographer whose research interests focus on the human aspects of global environmental change and geospatial data applications,
 integration, and dissemination. He serves as deputy manager of the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), coordinator of the Population-Environment Research Network (PERN), acting chair of the International Science Council World Data System
 scientific committee, and lecturer in the Earth Institute’s Sustainability Science master’s degree program.<span> 
</span>Prior to CIESIN he served as a program officer at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and a population geographer at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB). </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mr. Schumacher is a Senior Information Specialist at CIESIN within the Earth Institute at Columbia University. At CIESIN he leads the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications
 Center (SEDAC) User Services office.<span>  </span>In that role he is responsible for outreach activities, managing user questions, tracking the impact of SEDAC data and services, and coordinates with others the release of SEDAC datasets, services
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