Dr. Sara Graves represented the GHRC at the International Council for Science : Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Executive Committee meeting in Paris the week of April 14th as the Secretary General of CODATA. There were discussions with Dr. Steven Wilson, Executive Director of The International Council for Science (ICSU), about Future Earth and the data aspects of that large 10 year program. She also met with some representatives from the World Data System on collaborations on Future Earth and several other activities. Lastly, a presentation titled ‘Using GLIDER for Data Intensive Science’ by Sara Graves, Todd Berendes and Rahul Ramachandran was made at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria on April 8th, 2013.