Dan Opstal and Jordan Beauregard from US Geological Survey’s Civil Applications Committee

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

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2021/item/2253-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: [e-mail]

21:25  Request participation and an open facing CAC Fact Sheet from [e-mail]