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: dwright@esri.com

Twitter: @deepseadawn

dusk.geo.orst.edu/compass.html

esriurl.com/scicomm