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• We need trained scientists, engineers, politicians, professionals, and lay public – today and tomorrow.  Earth system science education, focusing on interactions and dynamic Earth domains, lays the foundation for the development and maintenance of this cadre of learned people who can comprehend, communicate and address complex Earth science issues. 
  
  

• Even as ESSE continues to operate at the undergraduate level, it will find new audiences at the graduate and professional levels and in the pre-college K-12 educational system.  More work is also needed in engaging communities and the general public in scientific understanding that may include policy-relevant information. 
  
  

• Over the next several decades, human activities must necessarily become more sustainable in relation to our ecosystems, climate system, and social systems, and must consider how these activities affect human health.  The future will offer opportunities and challenges for new kinds of partnerships in Earth system science education to address global issues of sustainability.
   

• Ongoing advances in research and global observing systems will provide new content and material for education.
  
  

• Visualizations of two- and three-dimensional satellite data will continue to evolve as an essential component of Earth system science education.
  
  

• Revolutions in information technology will shape the learning environment of the future. The impact of technological advances is already being felt in several areas:  access; interface and mobility; information retrieval and integration; collaboration; and analysis and communication.