Presenter(s):
Kasey White, National Academy of Sciences
Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union
Brittany Janis, Open Environmental Data Project
Kevin Reed, New York Climate Exchange
Sonia Wang, Data Foundation

Primary Convener:
Kevin Reed, New York Climate Exchange

The American climate and environmental data landscape is changing rapidly, requiring innovation to ensure critical data remain accessible to researchers, policymakers, and communities. Foundational datasets from federal agencies support everything from resilient infrastructure and public health to agricultural planning, energy forecasting, and climate innovation, while advancing our understanding of the complex Earth system.

As climate risks intensify and demands for data-driven solutions grow, ensuring these datasets remain accessible, usable, and impactful for decades to come has become imperative. This panel examines how organizations are coordinating to address climate data preservation, access, and infrastructure challenges. We'll explore the rapid-response preservation efforts following systematic data vulnerabilities, examine current coalition-driven initiatives focused on data innovation, and outline pathways for designing a future climate data ecosystem strengthened across public and non-federal spaces—creating the resiliency and robustness needed to ensure data continuity, scientific integrity, and accessibility across past, present, and future perspectives.

Index Terms
0530 Data presentation and visualization
1912 Data management, preservation, rescue
1916 Data and information discovery
6620 Science policy

Cross-Listed:
IN - Informatics
SY - Science and Society
C - Cryosphere
A - Atmospheric Sciences
H - Hydrology
OS - Ocean Sciences
GC - Global Environmental Change