→ Upcoming Episode: The Storm Events Database

Featuring:	Kwin Keuter Brad Andrick Jed Sundwall
Date:	12 Feb 2026
Time:	7:00 PM EST

Join us for a conversation with Kwin Keuter and Brad Andrick from Earth Genome about the newly launched Storm Events Database.

This collaborative project between Earth Genome, The Commons, and the Internet of Water Coalition provides access to over 1.9 million U.S. severe weather events spanning 70+ years of NCEI storm records, including tornadoes, floods, hail, and hurricanes.

We’ll discuss:

Transforming decades of federal storm data into an exploration-ready dataset
Building tools that ordinary citizens, analysts, and decision-makers can actually use
Supporting emergency management, research, urban planning, and insurance assessment
How collaborative tooling unlocks insights from government datasets

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