good afternoon I'm Chris McEntee I'm the CEO and executive director of the
American Geophysical Union and it is really, really always my honor every year
to be able to open the presentations you're gonna see from these amazing
young students, who are really at the forefront of not only amazing scientific
discoveries and also using data and visualization techniques to make it so
compelling for the scientific community but even broader in telling the story of
science and wonderment it's also by particular honor this year because
through this long partnership we've had for NASA to sponsor this competition we
actually are announcing a new name in honor of the director who recently
retired as the director of the Earth Sciences Division of NASA and has always
been a strong supporter of NASA science but in particularly making sure the next
generation has opportunities so with that I would like to announce and ask
you to applaud that we have a new name it's the AGU Michael Freilich student
visualization competition program sponsored by NASA
with that I'm gonna
turn it over to Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA who's gonna talk to us about the contest
winners as we call them up here, call this amazing group, he's gonna call them
by name and then well, well give them their their gifts but also more
importantly we won't take too long because we know you're here to see their
amazing science and their work thanks so much Chris I
couldn't be more excited to be here with naming this award that I feel so is so
important after a man who has been an inspiration for all of us because of the
fact that he recognizes of course the excitement of science but also
recognizes that science is not done until we tell it, science is not done
until we explain it to others and there's nobody who was more engaged
during his time when he was with us at NASA at the Hyperwall there's nobody was
more engaged here at an our friend Mike Freilich so I couldn't think of a better
name for this visualization challenge thanks so much
we also know of course and Mike has told all of us that he's struggling with
his health, he wanted to be here today and he cannot be here because of his
house so whatever you do send his thoughts send your prayers for a man
that is really close to all of us somebody we look up to so please do that
because of his health challenge that he has right now thanks further for that as
well and what I want to do is just tell you of course this is the fourth such
challenge and the Association and story-telling competition has a series
of entrants and I'm really excited right now to announce the winners here the
winners that you see the names behind me, I'm gonna tell, you give you the name I
have the winner come up here I'll tell you what that particular person did then
I'll ask him to stay on stage because we want to take a group picture afterwards
okay and did you only the other thing I would recommend is that you either take
the badge off or give it to somebody at the bottom of the stairs you always
wander on these pictures why did I keep that badge on, right, so, so I'm going to
start with Jacob Austin join us up here and GPU acceleration and machine
learning and visualization of NASA earth science data, congratulation Jacob
and here's the bag with all kinds of goodies, yeah, you just go over there on
the other side, thanks so much really exciting now the next winner is Gigi
Pavur, I know Gigi because she actually worked as an intern at NASA
headquarters those of you are still in the age of interns consider that Gigi did an
amazing job with our earth science she did using NASA Observatory to map
landslide susceptibility and exposure in the Dominican Republic congratulations
to you congratulations since here's your bag wear it with pride
ha, ha, ha, the next winner is Eleanor Luts Eleanor join us up here thanks so much
on visualization open astronomy data with open source code, congratulations
Eleanor here's to that, congratulations
and the fourth winner is Wen-Ying Wu join us up here Wen-Ying thanks, towards
a better understanding of my hydrological extremes for hurricane
resilient health care infrastructure modeling, congratulations for that
here's your bag, there you go so join us sounds like the first, looks like the
first grade the kids really excited about bags, so all right let's get the
sign congratulations for Mike