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Table of Contents
U.S. Group on Earth Observations
Intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations
USGEO PowerPoint
Please go to USGEO101 Keep Contents Together. Save zip file.
Copy entire folder to your shared or hard drive. Animated slides
should then move smoothly.
USGEO Exhibit
USGEO Videos
GEOSS Economic-Value Booklet
This booklet includes quotes from U.S. and other world leaders and the nine GEOSS societal benefit areas with economic values.
GEONETCast Handout
Sample Press Clips (U.S.)
State-Specific Focus
Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr. USN (Ret.), Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator, and then EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt held a press conference underscoring the value of GEOSS to all states and tribal nations on August 17, 2004 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Thirty-eight states participated on-site or via teleconference.
Sector-Specific Events
"Agribusiness in the 21st Century: Putting Earth Science to Work for America"
Forum at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
Washington, D.C.
May 20, 2005
"Power in the 21st Century: Putting Earth Science to Work for America"
Forum at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
Washington, D.C.
July 22, 2005
"What Does It Take to Predict and Protect"
Forum on Climate and Disease,
Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut
December 9, 2005
"Limiting the Effects of Natural
Disasters"
Press Conference,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
January 16, 2006
"Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Earth: Implications for Global Public Health"
World Congress of Public Health,
World Federation of Public Health Associations,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
August 22, 2006
"Biodiversity and Human Health: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Examining the Links"
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
September 14-15, 2006
"Global Earth Observations: A New Approach to Prevention, Early Warning and More Rapid Problem-Solving"
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting,
Boston, Massachusetts
November 7, 2006
"Changing Climate, Changing Health Patterns: What Will It Take to Predict and Protect?"
A forum co-hosted by the US Group on Earth Observations, World Federation of Public Health Associations and American Public Health Association
National Press Club, Washington, DC
June 18, 2008
Global Earth Observation Summits:
First Earth Observation Summit
Washington, D.C.
July 31, 2003
Second Earth Observation Summit
Tokyo, Japan
April 25, 2004
Third Earth Observation Summit
Brussels, Belgium
February 16, 2005
Fourth Earth Observation Summit
Cape Town, South Africa
November 30, 2007
GEO Plenary Examples:
GEO III
Bonn, Germany
November 27-28, 2006
GEO V
Bucharest, Romania
November 19-20, 2008
GEOSS in the Americas:
"New Satellite Coverage in South America To Limit Effects of Natural Disasters"
Press Conference/Reception,
Embassy of Brazil,
Washington, D.C.
April 10, 2007
Costa Rica Joins GEO
GEOSS in the Americas Press Conference
San Jose, Costa Rica
June 26, 2007
"Brazil's Advanced Forest-Monitoring System Will be Available Worldwide Under GEOSS"
Press Event at GEOSS in the Americas Workshop
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
September 17, 2007
"GEOSS in the Americas Introduces SERVIR AIR to Protect Public Health in Central America, Southern Mexico and the Caribbean"
Press Conference at GEOSS in the Americas Workshop
Panama City, Panama
September 30, 2008
For information on accessing power point animation, please contact Emily Wallace at ewallace@grs-solutions.com.
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