Activating Data Across Urban Environments
This session brings together the scientists, agencies, and community partners generating environmental data across New York City to confront a shared challenge: critical atmospheric and marine data is being collected across the region, but too often in silos that limit its reach and impact.
Using Governors Island’s environmental sensing efforts as a working case, the program opens into a broader conversation. We will discuss how disparate data streams and objectives across NYC can be coordinated, shared, and activated for the benefit of the broader NYC community. And how that data can support healthier and safer communities, emergency preparedness and resilience, more informed city planning and operations, and better decision-making by businesses and investors.
This session will include a fireside chat on the state of hyperlocal data in NYC with Assistant Commissioner Carolyn Olson, a panel and discussion on deploying hyperlocal data, and a tour of the Governors Island Environmental Observatory (GIEO). We hope to see you there!
Speakers Include:
Carolyn Olson, Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Environmental Surveillance and Policy, Department of Health
John Tolva, Director of Data Innovation, The New York Climate Exchange
Tuukka Petäjä, Professor, University of Helsinki
Paul Shepson, Dean, School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Stony Brook University
Joel Thornton, Dean, College of the Environment at the University of Washington
Deanna Kreinheder, Interdisciplinary Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
Shari Rose, Program Manager (Thriving Earth Exchange), American Geophysical Union
This event is hosted by The New York Climate Exchange, the University of Helsinki and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at Stony Brook University, and The Offices of the Consulate General of Finland in New York.