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    • Spatial Statistics Resources in GitHub
    • Insights for ArcGIS
    • Switching to ArcGIS Pro from ArcMap
    • Peer-reviewed publications by Esri authors
    • Esri R&D Centers Around the World
    • Focal Diversity Functions for ArcGIS Pro

    • Esri GitHub
    • ArcGIS Earth
    • Esri Library GIS Bibliography
    • Peer-reviewed publications by Esri authors
    • Sciences Portal in ArcGIS Online
    • Add your data to our basemaps
    • Did You Know? Latest Contributions of Esri R&D and ArcGIS to Science

    • ArcGIS Developer
    • ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World
    • ArcGIS StoryMaps
    • Collaborate with us on research
    • Distributive Flow Maps for ArcGIS Pro
    • R-ArcGIS Bridge

    • Lifelong Learning

    Update and extend your skills. 

    • Free Learn ArcGIS Modules
    • Analytical Story Maps Catalog
    • GIS and Science Blog (Legacy)
    • Observing the Red Planet

    • Free MOOCs
    • Maps We Love: Explore. Learn. Be Inspired.
    • Solar System Atlas
    • (Is there) Life on Mars?

    • ArcGIS StoryMaps
    • Science Esri Community
    • The Chris Hadfield Space Photographs Collection
    • GIS&T Body of Knowledge

    • Citizen Science

    Use ArcGIS to engage and crowdsource

    Apps for the community

    Web-based applications that support data collection and sharing.

    • ArcGIS Hub
    • ArcGIS Survey123
    • GeoForm
    • ArcGIS AppStudio Quick Report
    • Wildlife Photo Survey
    • Crowdsource Manager
    • ArcGIS and Citizen Science story map

    • Citizen Science Reporter

    This solution can be used by citizen scientists to report science observations from their smartphone, tablet, and desktop computer.

    • Learn about the apps

    • Resources

    • ArcGIS and Citizen Science Story Map

    • Global Earth Challenge

    • Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit

    A step-by-step guide for helping you carry out your project. 

    • View the toolkit

    • Open Science

    Esri and Open Science

    • Esri Open Access National Datasets
    • ArcGIS: An Open Platform for Innovation
    • Washington, DC R&D Center
    • Esri GeoDev Meetups
    • Developers.ArcGIS.com (including a host of APIs and ArcGIS Runtime SDKs)
    • Esri Developer Summit (annually in Palm Springs, CA)
    • Esri Open Source: A Year On and Growing
    • Open Source Technology and Esri
    • Esri Limited Error Raster Compression (LERC)
    • Try ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap
    • ArcGIS Data Interoperability

    • Python and ArcGIS

    • ArcGIS and SciPy
    • ArcGIS and the Python Spatial Analysis Library (PySAL) for geospatial analytical computation
    • Python Data Analysis Library (pandas)
    • Beginner's guide to Python in ArcGIS Pro, Part 1: Why?
    • Beginner's guide to Python in ArcGIS Pro, Part 2: How?
    • Beginner's guide to Python in ArcGIS Pro, Part 3: Tutorial
    • Beginner's guide to Python in ArcGIS Pro, Part 4: Tutorial, continued
    • GIS Panel Discussion at SciPy
    • Using Python (including GDAL) with ArcGIS
    • Scientific Data and Python Video

    • Jupyter, R, and Conda

    • ArcGIS Notebooks (Jupyter)
    • More on ArcGIS Notebooks
    • Conda (package manager)
    • R-ArcGIS Bridge Learn ArcGIS Lesson 1
    • R-ArcGIS Bridge Learn ArcGIS Lesson 2

    • Weather and Climate Science

    Articles and blogs

    • An Ocean of Story Maps (including hurricanes)
    • Speaking the "Language" of Spatial Analysis and Science via Story Maps
    • Climate Model Calibration via Machine Learning
    • A GIS-Derived Climatology of Severe-Weather Warnings, Watches, and Advisories
    • Live Feeds from ArcGIS Living Atlas: Improving Real-Time Situational Awareness
    • Apple, Net Zero, Carbon Offsets, and Transparency

    • Scientific partners

    • Microsoft: AI for Earth
    • AccelAdapt, Climate Resilience for Cities and Counties
    • US National Ice Center, Naval Ice Center
    • FEMA

    • Events and learning

    • Meteorological Technology World Expo 2019
    • Weather and Climate Special Interest Group at the Esri UC
    • Earth Science Learn ArcGIS Lessons (Industries: Natural Resources or Water)
    • Analysis and Forecasting for Meteorology Path
    • The United States Environmental Protection Agency CREAT Risk Assessment Application for Water Utilities
    • The United States Environmental Protection Agency Global Change Explorer

    • Ocean Science

    Articles and blogs

    • Ocean-themed ArcGIS Blogs
    • Esri Ocean News
    • geneGIS (Marine Mammal Genetics)
    • Ports and Maritime Industry
    • US Navy SeaPort-e Information
    • US Navy Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)
    • An Ocean of Story Maps
    • Use Raster Analytics and the Python API to Monitor Coral Bleaching
    • Coastal Flooding - Rising Seas, More Flooding
    • How we did it: Detecting shipwrecks using deep learning at 2020 Esri UC
    • Mapping the Deep: A New Age of Exploration
    • XPRIZE Partners with Esri on Ocean Mapping Challenge

    • Communities

    • Ocean Science Community on Esri Community
    • GIS for Hydrographic Surveying Community on Esri Community
    • Ecological Marine Units Community on Esri Community
    • Monterey Bay Marine GIS User Group
    • Southern California Marine GIS Users Group
    • ArcGIS for Maritime on Esri Community
    • OpenChannels, Sustainable Ocean Management & Conservation
    • Building a Strong Science Enterprise
    • Esri Petroleum GIS Conference

    • Events and learning

    • Canadian Oceans Forum
    • Try ArcGIS for Ocean Solutions Learn ArcGIS Lessons
    • Predict Seagrass Habitats with Machine Learning
    • Interpolate 3D Oxygen Measurements in Monterey Bay
    • Create a 3D Scene Showing Florida's Beaches and Inlets
    • Explore NOAA's Deep-Sea Coral Database
    • Get Started with Scene Viewer
    • Monitor Whales with a Multilingual Survey
    • Find Fish in the Bering Sea

    • Scientific partners

    • Geocap to Unlock Subsurface Data
    • NOAA Digital Coast
    • NOAA/BOEM Marine Cadastre
    • NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
    • exactEarth ShipMaps

    • Tools and resources

    • Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) Tools Network
    • SimCLIM for ArcGIS Sea Level Rise + SST Tools
    • Duke's Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET)
    • EMUs Open Data
    • Localized EMUs Poster
    • EMU Use Cases Poster
    • 52 Million Points and Counting EMUs Overview
    • Global Ocean Scientific Data and Models (DTU Space)

    • Solid Earth Science

    Blogs and story maps

    • GeoAI, thoughts about where AI and GIS
    • GeoAI Data Science Virtual Machine
    • geneGIS (Marine Mammal Genetics)
    • Geological & GIS Mission for Tham Luang Cave, Thailand (lost soccer boys)
    • Speaking the "Language" of Spatial Analysis and Science via Story Maps
    • Multidimensional Analysis for Plant Hardiness Zones
    • Unmixing Dirt: Mapping Ancient Lakes in the Desert
    • The Technology Behind a New Agricultural Revolution
    • Mekong River Hydrology

    • Esri resources

    • ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World Earth Science Content
    • Living in the Age of Humans (Atlas of the Anthropocene)
    • ArcGIS Imagery Workflows for Earth Science
    • Esri Government Earth Sciences
    • Esri Government Agriculture
    • Esri Government Forestry
    • Esri Water Resources
    • Esri Government National Mapping and Charting
    • Esri Petroleum GIS Conference
    • Building a Strong Science Enterprise
    • Arc Hydro: GIS for Water Resources
    • Geofabric: Important Hydrologic Points across Australia

    • Scientific partners

    • Geocap for Unlocking Subsurface Data
    • American Geophysical Union (AGU) ESSI Section
    • European Geosciences Union (EGU) ESSI Division

    • Training

    • Earth Imagery MOOC
    • Earth Science Learn ArcGIS Lessons (Industry="Natural Resources" or "Water")

    • Geographic Information Science

    Articles and blogs

    • GIS and Science blog
    • Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)
    • ArcGIS: An Open Platform for Innovation
    • Theory and application in a post-GISystems world
    • R Notebooks in ArcGIS Pro for Spatial Data Science
    • Spatial Data Science in ArcGIS Pro
    • Extract and Map Data from Unstructured Text
    • Coaching the Next Generation of Spatial Data Scientists

    • Esri resources

    • Esri Spatial Statistics Resources
    • Cartography. MOOC
    • GIScience research papers at Esri UC
    • Imagery Explorers
    • The ArcGIS Imagery Book
    • R-Bridge Tutorial Jupyter Notebooks
    • Update Real-Time Data with Python
    • Spatial Data Science MOOC
    • Spatial Data Science in Higher Education
    • Teach with ArcGIS Notebooks

    • Scientific partners

    • CyberGIS for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies
    • Geospatial Software Institute
    • JosephKerski.com, Spatial Thinking in Education

    • Social Science

    Articles, blogs, and books

    • GIS Research Methods: Incorporating Spatial Perspectives
    • Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age
    • Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online
    • Abstract Machine
    • GIS and the 2020 Census
    • Chapter from GIS for Science (homelessness)
    • Making a Difference
    • Using Classified and Unclassified Land Cover Data to Estimate the Footprint of Human Settlement peer-reviewed paper
    • Age and Social Vulnerability in the Context of Coronavirus
    • COVID-19: Amazonian Tribe Applies Location Intelligence to Protect Community

    • Esri resources

    • Esri Health and Human Services
    • Esri Demographics
    • ArcGIS Community Analyst (resource allocation)
    • Living in the Age of Humans (Atlas of the Anthropocene)
    • Government: Elected and Appointed Officials
    • Government: Elections
    • Planning and Community Development
    • Public Transport
    • Story map: The Human Reach
    • Story map: Better Serving the Homeless with Geographic Information Systems
    • Building a Strong Science Enterprise
    • Story map: Enhancing Qualitative Social Science with GIS

    • Events and organizations

    • Urban Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)
    • Geodesign Summit
    • POPGRID Data Collaborative

    • Software stacks

    Core and customized software stacks for science 

    • Dimension Explorer
    • Python Spatial Analysis Library (PySAL)
    • The Jupyter Notebook
    • GIS Tools for Hadoop Project
    • Integration with R
    • Integration of ArcGIS with the SciPy Stack

    • 3D Fences and Curtains
    • Python: Working with Scientific Data
    • ArcGIS API for Python
    • Benthic Terrain Modeler
    • Containers

    • ArcGIS Code Sharing
    • ArcGIS Open Data and ArcGIS Hub
    • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    • Voxels
    • Elastic Search (coming soon)

    • Esri's Service to the Scientific Community

    Esri is well known as a vendor of GIS to research labs, universities, and other places where great science is done. However, Esri continues to work toward contributing as a member of the scientific community as well. This is partly accomplished by our volunteer work on scientific advisory boards, councils, and committees. Current examples include the following: 

    Advisory Boards

    • The Hydrographic Society of America
    • 52°North Scientific and Technical Advisory Board
    • American Meteorological Society (AMS) Board on Global Strategies
    • Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Board
    • TMA BlueTech
    • National Geographic Society Board of Trustees
    • National Water Forecasting Program Advisory Board
    • Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Board of Directors
    • Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Scientific Advisory Board
    • University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment External Advisory Board
    • The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Board of Directors
    • E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation Board of Directors
    • National Governors Association Smart States Advisory Board
    • Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center
    • The Center for Open Data Enterprise Advisory Board
    • OpenStreetMap Foundation Advisory Board
    • Seabed 2030 Strategic Advisory Group

    • Editorial Boards

    • Annals of the American Association of Geographers
    • The Cartographic Journal
    • Geography Compass
    • International Journal of Geographical Information Science
    • Journal of Coastal Conservation: Planning and Management
    • Transactions in GIS
    • GigaScience Editorial Board

    • Councils

    • NatureServe Strategic Advisors Council
    • Scripps Institution of Oceanography Director's Council
    • Society for Conservation GIS Advisory Council
    • Advisory Council of the Center for Geospatial Solutions, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
    • National States Geographic Information Council
    • Half-Earth Council

    • High-Level Committees

    • GEBCO Technical Sub-Committee on Ocean Mapping
    • US National Committee for the International Cartographic Association
    • International Hydrographic Organization Marine Spatial Data Infrastructures Working Group
    • The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Geographical Sciences Committee
    • Research Data Alliance (RDA) interest group cochair and working groups
    • UN Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information (UN-GGIM)
    • Working Group on Geospatial Information for the UN-GGIM Inter-Agency and Expert Group on the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGS)
    • Community Advisory Committee for Water Prediction
    • Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI)
    • AGU Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee
    • GeoFutures Initiative Advisory Committee
    • The NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center User Working Group
    • National Geospatial Advisory Committee
    • Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Pro-Equity, Anti-Racism Committee
    • R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee
    • The NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) User Working Group (UWG)

    • Special product licenses for scientific organizations

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