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During her stint as NASA\u2019s deputy administrator, Lori Garver visited Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight in 2011 for a NASA Future Forum. (Credit: Ted Huetter \/ Museum of Flight)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver helped lead the charge for commercial space ventures, and now she\u2019s leading a brand-new space campaign to address the climate change challenge.<\/p>\n

Garver is the CEO of Earthrise Alliance, a philanthropic initiative that will leverage space connections and satellite data get policymakers, educators and the public fired up about climate action.<\/p>\n

She noted the connection between observing Earth from space and taking action on the environment goes back 50 years or so, to Apollo 8\u2019s famous Earthrise photo in 1968 and the first Earth Day in 1970.<\/p>\n

\u201cInvestment in space activities have driven scientific and technological advances that have transformed our understanding of Earth\u2019s changing climate,\u201d Garver said in a news release. \u201cEarthrise Alliance was created to translate this knowledge into meaningful action and to inform critical decision making that supports and sustains humanity on planet Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

That action includes pulling together satellite data from companies including Planet as well as Maxar\u2019s DigitalGlobe subsidiary; working with partners including National Geographic and Schmidt Futures; and funding fellowships and awards to support education and public engagement on climate issues.<\/p>\n

Garver said she had been thinking seriously about such issues even during her tenure as NASA\u2019s No. 2 official, between 2009 and 2013. (She was also NASA\u2019s associate administrator for policy and plans from 1998 to 2001.)<\/p>\n

For decades, NASA has played a leading role in gathering data to support the scientific view that Earth\u2019s climate is rapidly changing due to industrial carbon emissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in climate change. I\u2019ve seen the data. I\u2019ve been to Antarctica with the head of NSF [the National Science Foundation] during my time at NASA. It just couldn\u2019t be clearer,\u201d Garver told GeekWire. \u201cHow could I not be doing everything I could to help address that?\u201d<\/p>\n

After leaving NASA, Garver became the general manager of the Air Line Pilots Association, and in 2016 she helped found the Brooke Owens Fellowship program for women in aerospace. But when some of her contacts from the space community approached her about the Earthrise Alliance concept, and asked whether she was interested in taking on the CEO role, Garver jumped at the chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was an aha moment for me,\u201d she said. \u2018It was a good transition time for me \u2026 and I said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other members on the leadership team include chief operating officer Cassie Lee, who until recently was the head of space programs for Seattle-based Vulcan Inc. and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation; chief technology officer Dan Hammer, former White House senior policy adviser; quantum physicist Edward Boyda, who will serve as Earthrise Alliance\u2019s chief scientific officer; and Jason Kessler, former project director of Mission Control Earth and program executive at NASA.<\/p>\n

Earthrise Alliance unites the efforts of Mission Control Earth, which has been a supporter of the Climate Modeling Allance, or CLiMA; and Earthrise Media, which is an Earth Genome project aimed at making satellite imagery available for humanitarian and news reporting purposes. It\u2019s a philanthropic project of the Windward Fund as well as an initiative of Mountain Philanthropies.<\/p>\n

Garver said she\u2019s pleased to see how many organizations came together to forge the alliance. \u201cIt\u2019s like there\u2019s nothing but goodness,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also pleased to be involved in a space venture that\u2019s all about Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy interest in space, my policy positions, my drive has been around what we can do from space,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s never been about the rocket. \u2026 We really would not know as much about our changing planet, and how to help save ourselves, without having made the advances we made in commercial space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During her stint as NASA\u2019s deputy administrator, Lori Garver visited Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight in 2011 for a NASA Future Forum. (Credit: Ted Huetter \/ Museum of Flight) Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver helped lead the charge for commercial space ventures, and now she\u2019s leading a brand-new space campaign to address the climate change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1123,5028,651,5029,4756,21],"class_list":["post-18080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-climate-change","tag-earthrise-alliance","tag-environment","tag-lori-garver","tag-philanthropy","tag-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}