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good afternoon I'm Chris McEntee I'm the
CEO and executive director of the

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American Geophysical Union and it is
really, really always my honor every year

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to be able to open the presentations
you're gonna see from these amazing

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young students, who are really at the
forefront of not only amazing scientific

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discoveries and also using data and
visualization techniques to make it so

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compelling for the scientific community
but even broader in telling the story of

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science and wonderment it's also by
particular honor this year because

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through this long partnership we've had
for NASA to sponsor this competition we

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actually are announcing a new name in
honor of the director who recently

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retired as the director of the Earth
Sciences Division of NASA and has always

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been a strong supporter of NASA science
but in particularly making sure the next

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generation has opportunities so with
that I would like to announce and ask

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you to applaud that we have a new name
it's the AGU Michael Freilich student

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visualization competition program
sponsored by NASA

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with that I'm gonna

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turn it over to Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA
who's gonna talk to us about the contest

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winners as we call them up here, call
this amazing group, he's gonna call them

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by name and then well, well give them
their their gifts but also more

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importantly we won't take too long
because we know you're here to see their

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amazing science and their work thanks so
much Chris I

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couldn't be more excited to be here with
naming this award that I feel so is so

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important after a man who has been an
inspiration for all of us because of the

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fact that he recognizes of course the
excitement of science but also

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recognizes that science is not done
until we tell it, science is not done

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until we explain it to others and
there's nobody who was more engaged

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during his time when he was with us at
NASA at the Hyperwall there's nobody was

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more engaged here at an our friend Mike
Freilich so I couldn't think of a better

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name for this visualization challenge
thanks so much

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we also know of course and Mike has
told all of us that he's struggling with

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his health, he wanted to be here today
and he cannot be here because of his

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house so whatever you do send his
thoughts send your prayers for a man

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that is really close to all of us
somebody we look up to so please do that

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because of his health challenge that he
has right now thanks further for that as

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well and what I want to do is just tell
you of course this is the fourth such

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challenge and the Association and
story-telling competition has a series

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of entrants and I'm really excited right
now to announce the winners here the

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winners that you see the names behind me,
I'm gonna tell, you give you the name I

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have the winner come up here I'll tell
you what that particular person did then

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I'll ask him to stay on stage because we
want to take a group picture afterwards

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okay and did you only the other thing I
would recommend is that you either take

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the badge off or give it to somebody at
the bottom of the stairs you always

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wander on these pictures why did I keep
that badge on, right, so, so I'm going to

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start with Jacob Austin join us up here
and GPU acceleration and machine

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learning and visualization of NASA earth
science data, congratulation Jacob

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and here's the bag with all kinds of
goodies, yeah, you just go over there on

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the other side, thanks so much really
exciting now the next winner is Gigi

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Pavur, I know Gigi because she
actually worked as an intern at NASA

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headquarters those of you are still in the age
of interns consider that Gigi did an

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amazing job with our earth science she
did using NASA Observatory to map

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landslide susceptibility and exposure in
the Dominican Republic congratulations

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to you congratulations since here's your bag
wear it with pride

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ha, ha, ha, the next winner is Eleanor Luts
Eleanor join us up here thanks so much

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on visualization open astronomy data
with open source code, congratulations

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Eleanor here's to that, congratulations

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and the fourth winner is Wen-Ying Wu
join us up here Wen-Ying thanks, towards

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a better understanding of my
hydrological extremes for hurricane

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resilient health care infrastructure
modeling, congratulations for that

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here's your bag, there you go so join
us sounds like the first, looks like the

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first grade the kids really excited
about bags, so all right let's get the

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sign congratulations for Mike