NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) was launched December 5th 2018, science data acquisitions commenced April 18th 2019, and first data products were publicly released January 22nd 2020. Between April 2019 and September 2020, over 5.7 billion science quality land surface shots have been acquired and publicly released. Pending approval, an extended GEDI mission may operate until September 2023. GEDI measurements offer new opportunities to map the three-dimensional structure of the global land surface at high spatial resolution including bare earth and sub-canopy topography, canopy height and plant area profiles, and aboveground biomass. Through multi-sensor data fusion, GEDI is enabling higher resolution and wall-to-wall mapping, monitoring and modeling of ecosystem structure and fluxes. We invite submissions on the application of GEDI data products at local, regional and global scales to carbon cycle, biodiversity, ecosystem function, and topography, as well as the development of new GEDI data products.