Download - The Courage to Escape
WISE Inspirations Network at Stanford (WINS)
The Courage to Escape
Dawn Wright, Ph.D.
Esri Chief Scientist
Based in part on a blog post of the same name
See dusk.geo.orst.edu/compass.html
The Beginning …
From Maryland to Maui to Santa Barbara
Maui childhood,
1980 Olympic hopeful, long jump
Is “smart mapping”
in my future?
I hope so!
6 months in
1990 UCSB entering PhD student
Failure Isn’t Final … or Fatal …
Ph.D. = “Piled Higher and Deeper”
Volume
Teaching, Research (including grantsmanship), Service + ??
Variety
The pace of everything…
Velocity
Academicians are in Industry Too
But is good science still possible there?
Maps for Solving the World’s Biggest Problems
Helping to guide the science behind it and the science done with it.
www.esri.com/about-esri
Esri Contributions to Science esriurl.com/scicomm
Ecological Land Units
Esri + USGS
Open
Water
Data
Scientific Python/ Python API
R – ArcGIS Community
Open Water Data Initiative
Ecological Marine Units
R-arcgis.github.io
Esri + USGS, MCI, NOAA, NatureServe, others
Citizen Science
GEOSS MOU
Improved Cloud Access to Imagery
Esri + NASA, MRF+LERC
Esri + USGS, CUAHSI, NOAA NWS, FEMA
New Science Books
esriurl.com/citizens
esriurl.com/python
Diversity in Gender, Ethnicity, AND Age
Diversity in Gender, Ethnicity, AND Age
Esri Young Professionals Network
Learn latest
tech trends,
innovations.
Connect to
industry
experts +
peers.
Expand
personal
networks.
Gain
leadership
skills,
experience.
Retool,
recharge,
reinvent.
www.esri.com/landing-pages/ypn
Work used
to be a place
Now, work
is everywhere
“The Tyranny
of Time….”
http://compassblogs.org/blog/2013/11/12/re-energizing/ Graphic from Harvard Business Review
“Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time”
“Most of us go to our graves with our music
still inside of us.” –Oliver Wendall Holmes
With thanks to Karen McLeod, COMPASS
Don’t Be Afraid…
To Show Your Zany Side …
Built by Dawn, 3800+ pieces
Built by Dawn
lookslikescience.tumblr.com
You Never Know…
What the Impact Will Be …
Created by Joseph Kinyon
GIS Manager, Sonoma Land Trust
L/V Dawn Wright, Created by Wilbert McKinley for 2017 Philly
Brickfest, TeachFleet Youth Program
Courtesy of Martin Bloxham, Barefoot Thinking
Courage to “Escape”
Courage to “Reinvent”
Managing Energy, Not Time
Dawn Wright
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @deepseadawn
dusk.geo.orst.edu/compass.html
esriurl.com/scicomm