Explore the significance of open data in environmental science and governance through this keynote address by Edward Kearns, Chief Data Officer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Delve into NOAA's history as a leader in open data, understanding its mission to protect life and property, regulate marine fisheries, monitor climate change, and preserve environmental information. Learn about the vast amounts of data collected and distributed by NOAA annually, and discover how sharing this information benefits scientific research, the US economy, and global society. Examine the potential of NOAA's open data through new partnership initiatives, and gain insights into the organization's efforts to increase data usability and explore innovative approaches to data utilization with industrial and academic partners. Investigate topics such as big data, popular data sources, data.gov, open source, the World Weather Organization, and the tension between government and industry in data sharing. Analyze NOAA's partnership and licensing policies, the value of its data in various sectors, and ongoing experiments to improve data distribution and accessibility. Read more