May 2019
Real-Time Data Sharing Across Platforms to Improve Situational Awareness and Decision Making from Planning to Emergency Response to Climate Change Impacts
Dave Jones will describe and demonstrate a new innovation under the federal government’s SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program that enables real-time access and sharing of data across any platform for a true collaboration environment. This unique technology has been awarded Phase III status for every US federal agency to implement. Sharing data in real-time can enable new ways to respond to disasters, emergencies and enable coordination and communication across boundaries, jurisdictions, states and federal agencies. Massive improvements in efficiencies can be realized and local or regional exercises can be initiated to improve situational awareness and decision-making environments. As more extreme weather is fueled by a changing climate, multiple data sources can be accessed to improve planning at local and regional levels. Coordination and collaboration can accelerate law enforcement activities, natural resource and environment planning, climate impact planning and transportation activities to improve response and recovery post-disaster. Bring your tablet and laptop to connect to the Internet to participate LIVE.Date | Time | Location | CM |
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Wednesday, May 22 | 10:30 a.m. - 12 noon | County Administration Building
4th Floor Boardroom
14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 |
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Speaker(s) / Instructor(s) Biography
Dave Jones, CEO of StormCenter Communications, Inc.
Dave spent nearly a decade as an on-air broadcast meteorologist for NBC4 in Washington, DC. and launched the very first TV weather website in the nation, WeatherNet4 (1995). He also co-organizes and hosts the Glen Gerberg Weather and Climate Summit, a national summit that brings together TV meteorologists and scientists to advance TV meteorologist's understanding and communication of extreme weather impacts and climate science to build a more resilient nation. With NASA support he helped bring the 2017 solar eclipse through broadcast meteorologists to an audience of millions. With support from NOAA and NASA he has produced live-streamed workshops for broadcast meteorologists in conjunction with the 2016 launch of the GOES-16 from Kennedy Space Center and short widely watched videos on NOAA’s GOES-16 and JPSS satellites. Dave is frequently invited to make keynote presentations to groups and stresses the importance of integrating science and earth observing results into the decision-making process to improve resilience to extreme weather and the impacts of a changing climate.