new google earth application to help stop the logging of over a thousand acres of redwoods in her own santa cruz mountain community in 2005. and she hasn t stopped since. [applause] google earth outreach has helped hundreds of communities, from amazonian tribes fighting to protect their ancestral lands, to cities and towns dealing with toxic methane leaks invisible from the ground, to regions seeking to green their energy supply. and she more recently initiated and led the development of google earth engine, a powerful global scale data mining of satellite imagery that can help monitor the health of earth s life-sustaining resources, and achieve a hitherto unprecedented understanding of our changing environment, and put this data into the hands of those among us who can take action. i will let rebecca explain the exciting new work she and her team and new allies are doing. but i ll just end by saying that if we are to succeed in transitioning away from the destructive trajectory our species is currently on, we re going to need at least as good data and as effective tools as those who seek to protect the status quo possess, and there is no one on this planet who s doing more to equip u