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

By 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 in community

May 12, 2022

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 Openscapes Framework project. For this Cohort, we co-led the cohort with the NASA DAAC mentors and we focused on shifting toward Open science, collaborative, reproducible practices to support research teams as they transition from the download model to the Cloud.

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A Qualitative Data Analysis Chat with Dr. Beth Duckles

By Julie Lowndes, Erin Robinson, Stefanie Butland, Beth Duckles in community

April 26, 2022

A Qualitative Data Analysis Chat with Dr. Beth Duckles Our First 2022 Openscapes Community Call featured a chat with Beth Duckles PhD, a research consultant and social scientist. Beth helps technologists, designers and scientists gather and use human-centered data, supporting folks who are trying out their mixed methods or qualitative skills and want coaching and partnership. Beth is also the Founder and Co-Director of Open Post Academics (formerly the Athenas), an online peer-support community for people with a PhD who have left or are considering leaving academia.

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

By Em Markowitz, Josh London, Megsie Siple in community

April 7, 2022

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 of the Openscapes Champions program. Teams focused their energy on a range of important research issues supporting the AFSC mission including shellfish, fisheries, marine mammals, stock assessments, ecosystem indicators, trophic relationships, and food habits. This post is written by AFSC researchers Emily Markowitz, Resource Assessment & Conservation Engineering (RACE), Josh London, Marine Mammal Laboratory (MML), and Megsie Siple, Resource Assessment & Conservation Engineering (RACE).

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Towards collaborative protocols with the Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative

By Julie Lowndes, Erin Robinson, Lenny Teytelman, Emma Ganley in community

March 29, 2022

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 Foundation. For this Cohort, we partnered withprotocols.io and co-led the cohort with a focus on collaborative, reproducible practices for writing protocols - reproducible methods that researchers use to collect data in the lab. Cross-posted on protocols.io Quick links: Cohort webpage: https://openscapes.github.io/2021-sasi/ SASI Cohort overview For this Champions Cohort, we worked closely with Lenny Teytelman and Emma Ganley, the CEO and Director of Strategic Initiatives at protocols.

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Openscapes Newsletter #5: Spring 2022

By Julie Lowndes and Erin Robinson in community

March 21, 2022

Openscapes Newsletter #5: Spring 2022 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). We have two upcoming Spring events: please learn more and register at openscapes.org/events. Our Spring Champions Cohort will begin May 6- this is an open call for research teams; nominations accepted until April 1. Our Spring Community Call is on April 8 - A qualitative data analysis chat with Dr.

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3 takeaways for planning for the year of open science

By Aaron Friesz, Ileana Fenwick, Eli Holmes, Anna Holder, Amy Steiker, Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes in community

February 17, 2022

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 the Year of Open Science”, with speakers from University of North Carolina (UNC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, California Water Boards, University of Colorado, and United States Geological Survey (USGS). The goals of this session were to increase visibility and value of open science within government and support researchers and leaders that are already doing this within government organizations; to create more channels for inter- and cross-agency learning; and to share open science stories across agencies as we prepare for NASA’s Year of Open Science initiative.

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

By Abby Cabunoc Mayes, Chad Sansing, Erin Robinson, Julie Lowndes in community

January 25, 2022

Open Leadership w/ Abby Cabunoc Mayes and Chad Sansing (and more!) *Cross-posted at Mozilla Our final Openscapes Community Call of 2021 was a very special chat about open leadership with Abby Cabunoc Mayes and Chad Sansing and others now leading their own programs modeled after Mozilla Open Leaders (OL). The recording is onOpenscapes YouTube. Abby leads Mozilla’s developer-focused trustworthy AI strategy around MozFest and open source. Abby founded Mozilla Open Leaders and works to make openness the norm research and innovation.

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NASA 2021 Cloud Hackathon

By NASA Openscapes Team in community

December 15, 2021

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 hosted the Cloud Hackathon: Transitioning Earthdata Workflows to the Cloud with support from Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC), Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT), and Openscapes. Learn more about the 2021 Cloud Hackathon in these blog summaries:

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California Water Board Mentor Perspectives

By Anna Holder, Corey Clatterbuck in community

December 7, 2021

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 on what the California Water Boards mentors learned and did as they assisted with the Fall 2021 Fisheries Dependent Data Users (FDD) and NOAA’s National Marine Fishery Service (NMFS) Champions Cohorts. This blog post is authored by Anna Holder and Corey Clatterbuck from the California Water Boards Office of Information Management and Analysis (OIMA), who assisted the FDD and NMFS Cohorts, respectively, and the Openscapes team (Julie Lowndes and Erin Robinson) who make the Openscapes magic a reality.

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Openscapes December events & more

By Julie Lowndes and Erin Robinson in community

November 29, 2021

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/events NASEM: Accelerating the Analysis of Geographic Change - December 8, 9am-2pm. A joint National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) meeting co-hosted by the Mapping Sciences Committee and the Geographical Sciences Committee. We’ll be presenting about data interoperability and the Openscapes approach.

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