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Openscapes Newsletter #10: Fall 2024

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Welcome to Openscapes’ tenth newsletter! If you’re interested in seeing these infrequent updates in your inbox, please sign up here (linked from our connect with us page).…
Sep 17, 2024
Julie Lowndes, Stefanie Butland

Onboarding and “fledging”: How NASA Openscapes supports NASA Earthdata users in the Cloud

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A session at ESIP Summer 2024 conference
Aug 30, 2024
Alexis Hunzinger, Danny Kaufman, Aaron Friesz, Michele Thornton, Andy Barrett, Rhys Leahy, Eli Holmes, Julie Lowndes

Biden-Harris Administration announces support for NOAA Fisheries’ data, infrastructure, and workforce modernization in part via Openscapes

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Cross-posted at openscapes.org/blog and nmfs-openscapes.github.io.
Aug 19, 2024
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A letter to researchers that want to make the world a better place

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This piece is written by Dr. Antoinette Foster, who works to directly impact personal and interpersonal racism by empowering community members to become leaders of change.…
Aug 9, 2024
Antoinette Foster

Community building for a better tomorrow

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Report on Pathways to Open Science, 2024
Aug 5, 2024
Ileana Fenwick, Alexandra Davis, Aneese Williams, Antoinette Foster, Daniela Saderi, Stefanie Butland, Julia Lowndes

NASA Champions 2024: Data strategies for when to use cloud, coding strategies for parallelization, & first examples of big science in the Cloud

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From April-May 2024, the NASA Mentors who span eleven Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) co-led the third Champions Cohort with the NASA Openscapes project team…
Jul 24, 2024
Michele Thornton (ORNL), Catalina Taglialatela (PO.DAAC, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Luis Lopez (NSIDC), Matt Fisher (NSIDC), Alexis Hunzinger (GES DISC), Bri Lind (LP DAAC, KBR Inc., under contract to the U.S. Geological Survey), Mahsa Jami (LP DAAC, KBR Inc., under contract to the U.S. Geological Survey), Cassie Nickles (PO.DAAC, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Andy Teucher (NASA Openscapes), Aronne Merrelli (University of Michigan & 2023 Champion), Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes, NASA Openscapes Mentors

First Forays into the Cloud - first “fledging” story from NASA Openscapes!

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Aronne Merrelli describes developing cloud workflows with 2i2c, parallelizing workflows with Coiled, and attaching his university credit card to do real science in the cloud.
Jul 22, 2024
Aronne Merrelli, University of Michigan

Openscapes update from Julie Lowndes, summer 2024

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Hi friends, this is a status update about Openscapes — all good things as we’ve evolved structurally this year while concurrently supporting open science via leading cohorts…
Jul 18, 2024
Julie Lowndes

2i2c develops shared password access with LP DAAC for NASA Surface Biology and Geology Workshop

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NASA Openscapes Mentors collaborated to develop a frictionless login workflow for 250 participants
Jul 9, 2024
2i2c Team members Yuvi Panda and Jenny Wong

Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science

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An Open Access Editorial written collaboratively by mentors across the Openscapes community
Jun 6, 2024
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NASA Earthdata Data Chat with Aaron Friesz

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Aaron Friesz, science coordination lead at NASA’s Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) and NASA Openscapes Mentor, helps promote open science…
Apr 4, 2024
Aaron Friesz, Joseph M. Smith

Openscapes Newsletter #9: Inviting you to the Reflections Program

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Welcome to Openscapes’ ninth newsletter! If you’re interested in seeing these infrequent updates in your inbox, please sign up here (linked from our get involved page). And!…
Mar 27, 2024
Julie Lowndes, Ileana Fenwick, Stefanie Butland

NASA Earthdata Webinar: NASA Openscapes Mentors from 4 data centers present the Earthdata Cloud Cookbook

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On Wednesday, February 28, NASA Openscapes Mentors from 4 data centers shared how to use the Openscapes Earthdata Cloud Cookbook—a compilation of open-source tutorials…
Mar 12, 2024
Bri Lind, Alexis Hunzinger, Luis Lopez, Cassandra Nickles, NASA Openscapes Community

earthaccess: Accelerating NASA Earthdata access through open, collaborative development

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earthaccess is Python library that simplifies data discovery and access to NASA Earthdata. On February 26, the authors co-presented at the NASA Earth Science Data Systems (ES…
Mar 4, 2024
Luis López, Matt Fisher, Aaron Friesz, Qiusheng Wu, Amy Steiker, earthaccess community

Openscapes Community Call: GitHub for NASA Openscapes community calendaring & project management

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An open work in progress
Feb 28, 2024
Bri Lind, Stefanie Butland

NASA Openscapes: Talking points for 3-year recap & vision for next two years

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This week we joined a standing meeting with NASA DAAC and ESDIS managers (DMC-ESDIS Telecon). We had 30 minutes to present the goals for the upcoming year, and describe why…
Feb 15, 2024
Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes, NASA Openscapes Team

White House Fact Sheet Mentions Openscapes!

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We are so thrilled that the Openscapes community is included in the White House Fact Sheet as the Biden-⁠Harris Administration Marks the Anniversary of OSTP’s Year of Open…
Feb 9, 2024
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Openscapes Newsletter #8: Winter 2024

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Welcome to Openscapes’ eighth newsletter! If you’re interested in seeing these infrequent updates in your inbox, please sign up here (linked from our get involved page).…
Jan 24, 2024
Julie Lowndes, Stefanie Butland

NOAA Fisheries invests in Open Science Mentorship

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Report out on the first Mentor workshops with Openscapes
Jan 24, 2024
Elizabeth Eli Holmes (NWFSC), Em Markowitz (AFSC), Molly Stevens (SEFSC), Phoebe Woodworth-Jefcoats (PIFSC), Craig Millard (AKRO), Megsie Siple (AFSC), Andy Jones (NEFSC), Julie Rose (NEFSC), Ana Vaz (SEFSC), John Holzman (SEFSC), Erin Steiner (NWFSC), Matt Grossi (SEFSC), Kathryn Doering (OST), Adyan Rios (SEFSC), Amanda Bradford (PIFSC), Stefanie Butland (Openscapes), Julie Lowndes (Openscapes)

2024 Pathways to Open Science Program - in collaboration with PREreview

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Jan 22, 2024
Ileana Fenwick, Alex Davis, Aneese Williams, Antoinette Foster

NASA Openscapes: Approaches and Stories of Kinder, Open Science in the Cloud

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Highlights from our talk at the AGU Fall Meeting
Jan 18, 2024
Julie Lowndes, Erin Robinson, NASA Openscapes Mentors

California Water Boards’ 2nd Annual Openscapes Champions Program - Reflections & Future

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This blog post is authored by Devan Burke, Tina Ures, and Anna Holder from the The California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB; “Water Boards”). Here, we reflect…
Dec 13, 2023
Anna Holder, Devan Burke, Tina Ures

Activities at the AGU Fall Meeting

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Workshops, Talks, Posters, Demos, and more
Dec 10, 2023
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Openscapes Community Call: NASA Earthdata Cloud with Coiled

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Panel discussion and demos with NSIDC and Coiled
Dec 8, 2023
Amy Steiker, Luis Lopez, Andrew Barrett, Julie Lowndes, Erin Robinson, James Bourbeau

Engaging with a Cross-NASA Subcommunity

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Recap of a Carpentries Community Session with NASA and Openscapes
Dec 6, 2023
Chris Battisto, Katherine Blanchette, Alycia Crall, Elizabeth Joyner, Julie Lowndes, Sean McCartney, Erin Robinson, Kenton Ross

On-ramp to Open Science at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center

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2023 Fred Hutch Openscapes Champions Wrap-up
Dec 5, 2023
Stefanie Butland, Sean Kross, Monica Gerber, Liz Neeley, Julie Lowndes

Processing Terabyte-Scale NASA Cloud Datasets with Coiled

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Guide for NASA Cloud computing at scale. How to run existing NASA data workflows on the cloud, in parallel, with minimal code changes using Coiled.
Nov 7, 2023
James Bourbeau of Coiled

MATLAB on Openscapes

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Accessing and Analyzing NASA Earthdata in the Cloud with MATLAB
Oct 17, 2023
Lisa Kempler

Cloud Environment Opportunities

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Managed JupyterHub options for Cryosphere and NASA Earthdata user communities
Oct 13, 2023
Amy Steiker, Luis Lopez, Andy Barrett, the NASA Openscapes Mentors, James Bourbeau of Coiled

Documenting things & Posit Conference Debrief

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Last week I’ve been at #PositConf2023 in Chicago, reconnecting with the open data science community through folks from R-Ladies, Posit, and the greater #rstats and python…
Sep 27, 2023
Julie Lowndes

Reflections program helps folks identify and plan around their workflow needs in 1 hour/week

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This new program will be offered annually in May
Sep 6, 2023
Julie Lowndes, Ileana Fenwick

Notes from my Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship

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From Spring 2022-2023 I have had the pleasure of being a Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellow, by the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a collaborative effort of…
Aug 17, 2023
Julie Lowndes

Porting the Openscapes website from blogdown to Quarto

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reflections of a first-time freelancer
Aug 3, 2023
Samantha Csik

Exciting Progress for Research Teams using NASA Earthdata in the Cloud: 2023 NASA Openscapes Champions Wrap-up

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From April-June 2023, the NASA Openscapes project team co-led the second Champions Cohort with NASA Mentors who span seven Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs). The…
Aug 1, 2023
Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes, Amy Steiker, Alexis Hunzinger, Luis Lopez, Andy Barrett, Cassie Nickles, and NASA DAAC Mentors

New Zenodo Openscapes Community helps you Find and Cite Openscapes things

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We want to share our work in a way that people can find it, use it, improve it, and cite it, or get credit for their contributions. For people who have participated in our…
May 31, 2023
Stefanie Butland

How coaching skills have made us better open data science mentors

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February through May 2023, Openscapes Mentors from across governments and academia came together for some hands-on learning and practice that had a profound effect on the…
May 17, 2023
Tara Robertson, Stefanie Butland, Julie Lowndes

Introducing pathway of cloud computing to the NASA user community

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This post is by Xiaohua Pan, from NASA GSFC/Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). Pan participated in the 2021 Cloud Hackathon, led by NASA…
May 11, 2023
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Openscapes Newsletter #7: Inviting you to the Reflections Program

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Welcome to Openscapes’ seventh newsletter! If you’re interested in seeing these infrequent updates in your inbox, please sign up here (linked from our get involved page).…
May 2, 2023
Julie Lowndes and Ileana Fenwick

Community building for Black environmental and marine researchers: Pathways to Open Science

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Welcome to Pathways to Open Science, a remote event series for Black environmental & marine researchers to build community for the future of data intensive science! What you…
Apr 26, 2023
Ileana Fenwick, Alex Davis, Aneese Williams, Stefanie Butland, Julie Lowndes

Designing automated workflows, a chat with Dr. Sean Kross

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Our 8th Openscapes Community Call featured a “celebrity interview” with Dr. Sean Kross. Sean is a Data Staff Scientist at the Fred Hutch Data Science Lab. His work includes…
Apr 6, 2023
Sean Kross, Julie Lowndes, Stefanie Butland

3 approaches for the year of open science

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At the 2023 ESIP Winter Meeting, “Opening Doors to Open Science”, we held a session called “Better Science for Future Us: Openscapes stories and approaches for the Year of…
Mar 16, 2023
Corey Clatterbuck, Ileana Fenwick, Josh London, Luis Lopez, Cassie Nickles, Adyan Rios, Stefanie Butland, Julie Lowndes, Erin Robinson

Openscapes Newsletter #6: Winter 2023

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Welcome to Openscapes’ sixth newsletter! If you’re interested in seeing these infrequent updates in your inbox, please sign up here (linked from our get involved page).
Feb 21, 2023
Julie Lowndes and Stefanie Butland

Impacts of Openscapes Training on Open Science Movement Building Inside NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center

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In Fall 2022, Openscapes ran four concurrent Champions Cohorts that included participants from all NOAA Fisheries Science Centers, described in Nationwide Openscapes…
Feb 16, 2023
Emily Markowitz, Margaret Siple, Josh London

Nationwide Openscapes Training at NOAA Fisheries Science Centers: Facilitating Collaboration, Skill-sharing, and Open Science

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This blog post is co-written by NOAA Fisheries research staff who are Openscapes Mentors who supported colleagues during our four concurrent Champions Cohorts in Fall 2022.…
Jan 24, 2023
Molly Stevens, Adyan Rios, Amanda Bradford, Kevin Stierhoff, Juliette Verstaen, Eli Holmes, Emily Markowitz, Margaret Siple, Josh London, and 150 NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Champions

Open Science for the Climate Movement, a chat with Dr Monica Granados

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Our 7th Openscapes Community Call featured a “celebrity interview” with Monica Granados, PhD. Monica is the Open Climate Campaign Manager at Creative Commons and on the…
Dec 20, 2022
Monica Granados, Julie Lowndes, Stefanie Butland

NASA Openscapes: efforts to support end users in the journey to the cloud

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We are a mentor community across NASA Earth science data centers (Distributed Active Archive Centers - DAACs). We are co-creating and teaching common tutorials to support…
Dec 12, 2022
Amy Steiker, Alexis Hunzinger, Luis Lopez, Catalina Oaida Taglialatela, Aaron Friesz and the NASA Openscapes Mentors

Sound Bytes: Championing Open Science

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This blog post is authored by Kourtney Burger and is cross-posted from the NOAA Fisheries Science blog. Kourtney works as a biological science technician with the SWFSC…
Dec 9, 2022
Kourtney Burger for NOAA Fisheries

Adapting the Champions Program for the California Water Boards

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Note: Openscapes began to work with and onboard mentors over the summer of 2021 while also beginning writing the Openscapes Approach Guide to help document our process. This…
Dec 2, 2022
Corey Clatterbuck and Anna Holder

The why, what, and how of our NASA Openscapes cloud infrastructure: 2i2c JupyterHub and corn environment

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I am a software engineer at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Last month I gave a casual overview of our current cloud infrastructure set up with NASA Openscapes. The…
Nov 17, 2022
Luis Lopez and the NASA Openscapes Mentors

Vacationing with Open Science

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I’ve just taken a 2+ week vacation and truly unplugged. While this post seems a bit personal for the Openscapes blog, I wanted to share a bit about how our open science…
Nov 3, 2022
Julie Lowndes

Aligning mission around collaborative practices, with researchers, supervisors, and IT

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Note from Openscapes: This summer, we led a 2-month Champions Cohort with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries at the Southeast Fisheries…
Sep 30, 2022
Molly Stevens, Adyan Rios, Erica Rule

Quarto Keynote at the RStudio Conference

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This is a brief post summarizing my co-keynote at rstudio::conf(2022), with Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel titled Hello Quarto: share, collaborate, teach, reimagine.
Aug 10, 2022
Julie Lowndes

Learning by doing: migrating to Quarto from Bookdown

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I just had rather a lot of fun working with Ileana Fenwick to convert a book to Quarto from RMarkdown! Given that Quarto is relatively new and there’s not yet an excess of…
Jul 21, 2022
Stefanie Butland, Ileana Fenwick

Hello Quarto! A Chat with NASA Openscapes, co-hosted with R-Ladies Santa Barbara

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Our 6th Openscapes Community Call co-hosted with R-Ladies Santa Barbara featured a “celebrity interview” with NASA Openscapes Mentors Amy Steiker, Catalina Oaida…
Jun 22, 2022
Sam Csik, Julie Lowndes, Amy Steiker, Catalina Oaida Taglialatela, Aaron Friesz, J.J. Allaire, Erin Robinson, Stefanie Butland

GitHub for supporting, reusing, contributing, and failing safely

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Welcome! This illustrated series tells a story about why GitHub is so powerful for supporting, reusing, contributing, and failing safely. It is here as a blog post and also…
May 27, 2022
Allison Horst and Julie Lowndes

From downloading data to Cloud access: NASA Openscapes Champions Wrap-up

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In Spring 2022 we led our first NASA Openscapes Champions Cohort for research teams that work with NASA EarthData. This cohort is funded by NASA and part of our NASA…
May 12, 2022
NASA Openscapes Mentors, Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes, Andy Barrett, Aaron Friesz, Alexis Hunzinger, Luis Lopez, Catalina Oaida, Jack McNelis, Christine Smit, Amy Steiker, Makhan Virdi

A Qualitative Data Analysis Chat with Dr. Beth Duckles

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Our First 2022 Openscapes Community Call featured a chat with Beth Duckles PhD, a research consultant and social scientist. Beth helps technologists, designers and…
Apr 26, 2022
Beth Duckles, Erin Robinson, Stefanie Butland, Julie Lowndes

A supportive forum for continued learning and collaboration at NOAA Fisheries Alaska

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In early 2022, 8 research teams from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) participated in the 2022 AFSC Cohort …
Apr 7, 2022
Em Markowitz, Josh London, Megsie Siple

Towards collaborative protocols with the Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative

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In Fall 2021 we led an Openscapes Champions Cohort for research teams part of the Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative (SASI), funded by theGordon and Betty Moore…
Mar 29, 2022
Julie Lowndes, Erin Robinson, Lenny Teytelman, Emma Ganley

Openscapes Newsletter #5: Spring 2022

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Welcome to Openscapes’ fifth newsletter! If you’re interested in seeing these infrequent updates in your inbox, pleasesign up here (linked from ourget involved page).
Mar 21, 2022
Julie Lowndes and Erin Robinson

3 takeaways for planning for the year of open science

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At the ESIP Winter Meeting, “Data for All People: From Data Generation to Data Use and Understanding”, we held a session called “Better Science for Future Us: Planning for…
Feb 17, 2022
Aaron Friesz, Ileana Fenwick, Eli Holmes, Anna Holder, Amy Steiker, Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes

Open Leadership with Abby Cabunoc Mayes and Chad Sansing (and more!)

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*Cross-posted at Mozilla
Jan 25, 2022
Abby Cabunoc Mayes, Chad Sansing, Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes

NASA 2021 Cloud Hackathon

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In mid-November 2021, the NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC), National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) DAAC, Land Processes (LP) DAAC hos…
Dec 15, 2021
NASA Openscapes Team

California Water Board Mentor Perspectives

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Openscapes began to work with and onboard mentors over the summer while also beginning writing the Openscapes Approach Guide to help document our process. This post focuses…
Dec 7, 2021
Anna Holder, Corey Clatterbuck

Openscapes December events & more

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This is a brief share about some upcoming opportunities - we welcome you to join and/or share with your colleagues. More details for each are available at openscapes.org/even…
Nov 29, 2021
Julie Lowndes and Erin Robinson

Identifying common approaches and needs for fisheries dependent data

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In September-October, Openscapes led a 2-month Champions Cohort with Fisheries Dependent Data (FDD) Users, with over 30 fisheries scientists across academia and NOAA. These…
Nov 12, 2021
Gavin Fay, Andy Jones, Anna Holder, Julie Lowndes

Strengthening scientific workflow and team collaboration at NOAA Fisheries

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In September-October, Openscapes led a 2-month Champions Cohort with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)…
Nov 12, 2021
Eli Holmes, Eric Ward, Hélène Scalliet, Corey Clatterbuck, Julie Lowndes

Openscapes Champions Program: Fall 2021 Updates

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This Fall we have been leading three Champions Cohorts, with Fisheries Dependent Data Users (FDD), NOAA’s National Marine Fishery Service (NMFS), and the Gordon and Betty…
Nov 3, 2021
Julie Lowndes, Erin Robinson

NASA Open Source Science Workshop

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Last week NASA led an Open Source Science for Data Processing and Archives Workshop, announcing new initiatives to support open science. This was very exciting to be a part…
Oct 18, 2021
Julie Lowndes, Erin Robinson

FASEB DataWorks! Salon

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Data management and sharing are not just technical issues; they are shifts in mindset and approach. Openscapes is excited to partner with Federation of American Societies…
Oct 4, 2021
Erin Robinson

An R Markdown Chat with Alison Hill

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Our 3rd Openscapes Community Call featured a chat with Dr. Alison Hill, product manager for data science communication at RStudio. Alison is a data scientist, behavioral…
Oct 1, 2021
Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes, Alison Hill

Better science for future us

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Welcome to Openscapes’ fourth newsletter! If you’re interested in seeing these infrequent updates in your inbox, pleasesign up here (linked from ourget involved page).
Sep 15, 2021
Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes

Better Science for Future Us: Plenary at the SORTEE Conference

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In July 2021 we gave a plenary at the inaugural Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE) conference. SORTEE is a research…
Aug 1, 2021
Julie Lowndes and Erin Robinson

CS&S Champions Cohort Takeaways: Seaside Chats, data access, resilient teams

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The last Friday of June we celebrated the completion of our Code for Science and Society (CS&S) Science Champions Cohort. This was our first open call for the Champions…
Jul 13, 2021
Erin Robinson & Julie Lowndes

Our Openscapes Cohort: CSU COAST

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From the Openscapes Team: This is the second guest blog from Arie Dash, who is a Master’s student at Moss Landing Marine Labs and part of the Logan Lab at California State…
Jul 8, 2021
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A Chat with Tara Robertson

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Our 2nd Openscapes Community Call featured our chat with Tara Robertson, a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant working with us to improve practices in Openscapes.…
May 27, 2021
Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes, Tara Robertson

Our Supercharge Experience: The Logan Lab

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Arie Dash is a first year Master’s student at Moss Landing Marine Labs and California State University, Monterey Bay. He is studying how climate change affects rockfish gene…
May 11, 2021
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May updates and events from Openscapes

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Hello! This is Openscapes’ third newsletter. If you’re interested in seeing these infrequent updates in your inbox, pleasesign up here (linked from ourget involved page).
May 7, 2021
Julie Lowndes, Erin Robinson

NOAA NWFSC Openscapes Champions Cohort

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Starting in March, Openscapes led a 2-month Champions Cohort with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), working with thirty fisheries scientists from…
May 3, 2021
Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes, Eric Ward

‘Join the Rebel Alliance’ - an Openscapes interview with Dr. Dawn Wright at MozFest

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Openscapes had the distinct honor to introduce Dr. Dawn Wright, Chief Scientist of Esri to #mozfest, Mozilla’s annual Open Festival in early March (session page, recording).…
Mar 25, 2021
Erin Robinson, Dawn Wright, Julie Lowndes

Announcing the NASA Openscapes Framework

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We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a 3-year grant from NASA!
Mar 10, 2021
Erin Robinson, Amanda Tan, Julie Lowndes

Openscapes Events Spring 2021

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Welcome to Openscapes’ second newsletter! If you’re interested in seeing these infrequent updates in your inbox, please sign up here (linked from our get involved page.
Mar 4, 2021
Julie Lowndes and Erin Robinson

Welcoming Erin Robinson and 2021 Momentum

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Welcome! This blog post is also Openscapes’ first newsletter. If you’re interested in seeing these infrequent updates in your inbox, please sign up here (linked from the get…
Jan 19, 2021
Julie Lowndes and Erin Robinson

Audience building and strategic planning

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Last month I was invited to give a workshop at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Essential Open Source Software virtual conference. The workshop was about Audience Building…
Jan 6, 2021
Julie Lowndes

Incentivizing Open Science

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In early November I had the honor to speak at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science. This…
Nov 30, 2020
Julie Lowndes

Automated reporting in Tampa Bay with open science

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This is a guest blog by Marcus Beck that describes how the Tampa Bay Estuary Program (TBEP) is embracing open science principles and tools to create better science in less…
Nov 16, 2020
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Tidy data for efficiency, reproducibility, and collaboration

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This illustrated series was a collaboration between Julie and Allison, who like to talk endlessly about data, code, teaching, open science, and art. We’ve been collaborating…
Oct 12, 2020
Julie Lowndes and Allison Horst

Advising the future of Openscapes

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Cross-posted: Mozilla, NCEAS
Sep 30, 2020
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Data Science as an Entryway to Open Publishing

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In May 2020 we presented a virtual fireside chat at the Open Publishing Fest called “Data Science as an Entryway to Open Publishing”. The premise was that the open source R…
Aug 25, 2020
Julia Lowndes and Nicholas Tierney

Plenary at the ESIP conference

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In July 2020 I gave a plenary at the Earth Systems Information Partners (ESIP)’s Summer Meeting. ESIP is partnership of over 110 organizations supporting earth science data…
Aug 3, 2020
Julie Lowndes

Better Data Management for Better Data Science

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Cross-posted at emLab
Jul 6, 2020
Darcy Bradley

Lessons from remote meetings to bring to science

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I had the pleasure of writing a piece with Abby Cabunoc Mayes and Chad Sansing that was just published in Open Source Way called 3 lessons from remote meetings we’re taking…
Jun 25, 2020
Julie Lowndes

Black lives matter

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Over the past weeks, protests throughout the US and around the world have been calling out systemic, anti-Black racism and calling for justice for George Floyd, Breonna…
Jun 15, 2020
Julie Lowndes

Developing reproducible workflows collaboratively

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Crossposted at NCEAS
May 29, 2020
Julien Brun, Julie Lowndes, Carrie Kappel

Kick-starting scientific collaborations remotely

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“I was blown away at how effectively and productively you’ve led a virtual meeting – and I’m in a lot these days. People can be pretty passive”.
May 4, 2020
Julie Lowndes, Carrie Kappel, Julien Brun

Our Openscapes experience: The Fay Lab

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Ashleigh Novak is a spatial ecologist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST), focused on integrating tagging data into…
Mar 31, 2020
Ashleigh Novak

How to run a remote workshop, Openscapes/Open Leaders-style

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Here is some tips about how to run remote workshops like we do in Openscapes, which was modeled after Mozilla Open Leaders program. This post was sparked by a question on…
Mar 11, 2020
Julie Lowndes

Our first Openscapes Workshop

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Last week Openscapes had its first-ever in-person 2-day workshop (the Champions Program is remote-by-design so this was an in-person adaptation). The workshop was at the…
Mar 6, 2020
Julie Lowndes

rOpenSci’s leadership in #rstats culture

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Cross-posted on rOpenSci
Feb 21, 2020
Julie Lowndes

R for Excel Users Workshop

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This course is for Excel users who want to add or integrate R and RStudio into their existing data analysis toolkit. It is a friendly intro to becoming a modern R user, full…
Feb 18, 2020
Allison Horst and Julie Lowndes

RStudio Conference 2020

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Last week Openscapes went to the RStudio Conference! This is a brief summary of a conference that truly made history, both globally as RStudio announced it is a Public…
Feb 4, 2020
Julie Lowndes

How we work: the Buckley Lab

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Dr. Lauren Buckley spent her fall sabbatical at NCEAS, where she chatted with Julie Lowndes about her lab practices and open data science. Here she shares how she is using…
Jan 16, 2020
Lauren Buckley

Openscapes 2020

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Openscapes’ vision is a scientific culture that is more efficient and collaborative, and can uncover data-driven solutions faster. We engage and empower scientists with open…
Jan 5, 2020
Julie Lowndes

Towards kinder science

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Earlier this week I published a piece in Scientific American called Open software means kinder science. It’s about how open source is not only good for science, it’s good…
Dec 11, 2019
Julie Lowndes

Supercharging research with open data science and teamwork

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Today we published a piece in Nature’s Career Column called Supercharge your research: A 10-week plan for open data science, and we are so thrilled to share this with the…
Oct 31, 2019
Julie Lowndes

Keynote at the useR! conference

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This article is cross-posted on medium.com
Aug 22, 2019
Julie Lowndes

Wins from the inaugural Champions cohort

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This article was originally published on medium.com
Jun 12, 2019
Julie Lowndes

Champions Case Study: Froehlich Lab

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We have just concluded our inaugural cohort of Openscapes Champions. While sad to conclude, all Champion labs have so many exciting accomplishments and so much momentum for…
Jun 11, 2019
Froehlich Lab

Champions Case Study: Therkildsen Lab

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We have just concluded our inaugural cohort of Openscapes Champions. While sad to conclude, all Champion labs have so many exciting accomplishments and so much momentum for…
Jun 10, 2019
Therkildsen Lab

Champions Case Study: Pinsky Lab

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We have just concluded our inaugural cohort of Openscapes Champions. While sad to conclude, all Champion labs have so many exciting accomplishments and so much momentum for…
Jun 6, 2019
Pinsky Lab

Champions Case Study: Stier Lab

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We have just concluded our inaugural cohort of Openscapes Champions. While sad to conclude, all Champion labs have so many exciting accomplishments and so much momentum for…
Jun 4, 2019
Stier Lab

Champions Case Study: Jayasundara Lab

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We have just concluded our inaugural cohort of Openscapes Champions. While sad to conclude, all Champion labs have so many exciting accomplishments and so much momentum for…
Jun 3, 2019
Jayasundara Lab

Champions Case Study: Horst Lab

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We have just concluded our inaugural cohort of Openscapes Champions. While sad to conclude, all Champion labs have so many exciting accomplishments and so much momentum for…
May 30, 2019
Horst Lab

Champions Case Study: Wood Lab

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We have just concluded our inaugural cohort of Openscapes Champions. While sad to conclude, all Champion labs have so many exciting accomplishments and so much momentum for…
May 29, 2019
Wood Lab

A conference for open data leaders

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I attended csv,conf,v4 in Portland, Oregon in May 2019. Here are a few reflections about the conference and a bit about my talk where I shared progress from the Openscapes…
May 20, 2019
Julie Lowndes

Starting our #tidytuesday hacky hours

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This is our first community blog post by Openscapes Champion Allison Horst!
May 2, 2019
Allison Horst

Openscapes Summit reflections 2 — Changing the way we do science

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This article is cross-posted on medium.com
Apr 25, 2019
Julie Lowndes

Openscapes Summit reflections — becoming champions

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This article is cross-posted on medium.com
Apr 8, 2019
Julie Lowndes

Openscapes Champions incorporate open practices in their science

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This article was originally published on medium.com
Mar 27, 2019
Julie Lowndes

[Sea]side Chats for data workflows

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Seaside Chats. Bluffside Chats. Fishbowl Chats. Bayside Chats. This is where we discuss data workflows in the lab.
Mar 10, 2019
Julie Lowndes

RStudio Conference culture

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I attended RStudio::conf this year and there is so much to report from a conference that gathers 1700 attendees from industry and academia and disciplines of all kinds. The…
Feb 19, 2019
Julie Lowndes

Introducing the Champions Program

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This article was originally published on medium.com
Jan 28, 2019
Julie Lowndes

Personifying code

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Anything and everything we do to increase visibility of open practices and data science within environmental science communities is important. When we see things, it is…
Jan 15, 2019
Julie Lowndes

So you want to learn R

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updated with R for Excel Users resource Apr 2020
Dec 17, 2018
Julie Lowndes

Introducing Openscapes

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This article was originally published on medium.com
Nov 20, 2018
Julie Lowndes

How to start a coding club

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Summary: start small, be hands-on, use existing tutorials, have fun.
Nov 16, 2018
Julie Lowndes

Build communities

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Openscapes is built with the idea that we can model the open culture we want in science. It starts with making open data science more visible and valued in our communities.…
Nov 6, 2018
Julie Lowndes

.rProfile Julia Stewart Lowndes

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This interview was originally published by rOpenSci on February 9, 2018 as part of the .rprofile series.
Feb 9, 2018
Sean Kross and Kelly O’Briant
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