In this short session, Geneviève de Messières will give an overview of the Earth to Sky program, including its national efforts and how the UDRW conference fits into the new ETS Regional Model.  She will deliver a short tour of the functions of the Earth to Sky website and ways in which conference participants can join the national community of practice.

Geneviève de Messières is the lead of the Earth to Sky program.  She works for Science Systems and Applications, Inc, and is based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. Before arriving at NASA, she earned her PhD in astronomy from the University of Virginia and managed the Astronomy Education Program at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. She is a Virginia Master Naturalist and especially likes to engage in local climate solutions, to count birds using eBird, and to identify solutions for light pollution. With Earth to Sky, she is particularly excited to build strong ties with interpreters and communicators across the nation, focusing on making all voices welcome. She enjoys working with the community of NASA-funded earth scientists, identifying their goals and outreach interests, and connecting them with interpreters with a common focus in their place-based work. She looks forward to working with you to improve access to excellent tools for interpreting climate change.