 Yeah, great. So I'm Brooks Hansen. I'm an executive vice president for science here at AGU. It's my great pleasure to welcome you to our building and if some of you are AGU members at your building and even if it's not it could be your building today. And it's great also to have this conference, I annotate conference here in Washington, D.C. I attended. I don't think it was the first, it was the second or third and then the fourth or fifth and a couple others and it's always been a very inspiring meeting for me and for AGU and it's going to be great to participate and listen and and learn again over the next couple days. So as Nate mentioned, this is one of the first renovated, it is the first renovated net zero building in D.C., one of the first in the country. So encourage you to take a tour. We have a whole variety of really cool systems to maximize energy in a very small city footprint. The water is recycled. So actually if you'll see in the toilet, it's a little off colored water. That's not the drinking water, but it is collected rainwater that we use for non-portable water supply, including the gardening and stuff like that. And there's a there's a cool little pooper thermal heat exchanger where we've tapped into the DC sewers. So you're all about that. That was a permitting nightmare, but we managed to get it done with the support of the D.C. government. So that's just one of a number of interesting energy and energy collection exchange systems that we have here. Also just a couple things. We are trying to practice not just net zero and energy, but in consumables. So you'll also read about how we recycled much of the materials. A lot of the silverware is recyclable. The little plastic cups are is compostable, and the little plastic cups are made out of corn, and there's are also compostable also. So in the back of this room and out by the food, you'll see both a trash and a compost bins. Please, if you can be conscious and put the compost of volume is in the compostable bins and the non ones in the trash or otherwise recycled bins. So AGU is not only trying to kind of live our mission in this building, but in a lot of our activities. We've been leading an effort to promote fair and open data in the Earth and Space Sciences and are extending it out to other sciences now. So fair is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. A key part of that will be moving scientific data from PDF supplements actually to repositories and landing pages. One point of that is so that actually those pages can be annotated very easily and exposed. Similarly, we're going to make the data of this building available and open through the same sort of process. And again, so that folks can understand, the public can understand how this building works. We want to run one of the largest scientific meetings in the world. It was here in Washington, D.C. last year. It'll be in San Francisco this year. We hit almost 30,000 people Earth and Space Sciences and many more policymakers and others last year. We're now trying to lead the scientific community in getting carbon footprints for large meetings like that. We try to recycle as much as we can at those meetings, but are working with the hotel industry to expose their data for understanding the carbon footprint of those meetings, including travel eventually. We understand that's a big issue and having actionable data on that, that the public can understand and the scientific community can use and that the industry can use to optimize their carbon footprint is really important. We've implemented annotations in some of our peer review process and we're about to do it on a preprint server that we're helped start in the Earth and Space Sciences. So again, all of that is trying to expand open science. We're also really excited to have this conference here and welcome in. And I think, you know, this is a very important time. It's interesting that it is the 30th anniversary of the web and that when you review the highlights on the back of the t-shirt that this meeting is actually one of those highlights, I thought that was good. Because I think it's appropriate. You know, the web, it's amazing for those of us that have watched this, you know, rapid evolution over the past 30 years when it was first implemented to, from the science perspective, when journals became online and then processes became online. But it's essentially the backbone right now of how we work, how we gather information, how we connect, how we communicate, how we learn, how we have fun in some cases, how we engage, how we consume, how we shop, etc. And so, but it could be a lot better. And I think at this point the unleashed model for annotation is quite appropriate for that improvement. We're also facing some really serious issues as a result in integrity, in misinformation and fake news, in how we engage, in privacy, in facilitating citizen science, in education, in proving education and learning, and in our kind of social structure and connections in our government. So all of those are obviously highly connected with the web at 30 and with improving that. And I hope to hear over the course of the next couple of days, not only deep dives into some of these important technology improvements and improvements in how we use the web, but some discussion of some of these larger issues that we're facing. And I think this effort and your effort and Open Open is really key to addressing many of these. So I look forward to the discussion and I'll turn it over to Dan. Thank you.