In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Dan Opstal and Jordan Beauregard from US Geological Survey’s Civil Applications Committee.
0:48 Defining the Civil Applications Committee
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2022/3002/fs20223002.pdf
2:07 Defining the Triple Junction positioning of the CAC
2:40 The CAC and its Human Security tasks
4:00 Open-source data availability
4:20 International Charter for Space and Major Disasters
https://disasterscharter.org/web/guest/home;jsessionid=87F1DB8EF0A2ECA8F5728124A8760CB0.APP1
5:30 CAC makes datasets available from all partners
7:15 Monthly overview of all Space Charter activations (esp wildfire management)
9:32 Proactive Working Groups (getting to the left of an event)
10:30 Pre and Post Collection analysis
11:20 Environmental Security Working Group (ESWG) explanation
12:18 Events hosted for professional development within the Intelligence Community
13:20 ESWG participation in the first National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change
14:15 Professional resource for the intelligence community, extending to academia like the Naval Postgraduate School
15:20 5th Environmental Security Summit (open to the public) 21-22 September 2022
16:25 National Intelligence University website for the previous Environmental Security Summit Proceedings: https://ni-u.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/21C-102_Environmental_Security_Summit_2020_Conference_Paperv2.pdf
17:45 “The environment cannot be classified.” – a discussion of new partners
19:10 The CAC used COVID as a forcing function to open up resources to a larger audience.
20:45 How to participate in CAC or ESWG events: ESWG_Leadership@NGA.mil
21:25 Request participation and an open facing CAC Fact Sheet from CAC@USGS.gov