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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 way we will teach and lead going forward. We learned coaching skills that can help us as professionals – skills like listening rather than solutioneering, asking open-ended questions that empower people to find their own agency and meet their needs. This is a program designed and facilitated by Tara Robertson, a Certified Professional Co-Active and International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach.

Introducing pathway of cloud computing to the NASA user community

By Xiaohua Pan in community

May 11, 2023

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 Data Center (DAAC) staff who are part of the NASA Openscapes Mentor community. Following this first hands-on introduction to NASA Earthdata in the cloud, Pan continued to experiment with transitioning her workflow to the cloud. Sharing her experience through posters, talks, and here in this blog post, she is a research scientist, a data curator, and a bridge-builder between data centers and the user community.

Openscapes Newsletter #7: Inviting you to the Reflections Program

By Julie Lowndes and Ileana Fenwick in community

May 2, 2023

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). And! If you have signed up but did not see this in your inbox, please check your spam folder! Hello! We are so excited to announce a new program starting next week: Openscapes Reflections! Details follow below - we’re responding to a need we’ve heard and are experimenting with a format we’ve forked from professional leadership coaching.

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

By Ileana Fenwick, Alex Davis, Aneese Williams, Stefanie Butland, Julie Lowndes in community

April 26, 2023

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 will read here includes numbers and facts we’ve reported to our gracious funders, but more than anything we provided an inclusive onramp for open science in an intentional way that will continue to inspire more equitable open science programming moving forward. The Pathways team is so excited to report that this series provided tangible skills that will accelerate the science of incredible Black researchers across the globe (we even had international participants!

Designing automated workflows, a chat with Dr. Sean Kross

By Sean Kross, Julie Lowndes, Stefanie Butland in community

April 6, 2023

How the Kyber R package connects Google Sheets, RMarkdown, GitHub, and Agenda docs for open education Quicklinks Video recording Collaborative Notes Slides 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 understanding data science as a practice, and approach combines computational, statistical, ethnographic, and design-driven methods. Sean earned his PhD in Human-Computer Interaction at UC San Diego where he was advised by Philip Guo, and interned at Microsoft Research.

3 approaches for the year of open science

By Corey Clatterbuck, Ileana Fenwick, Josh London, Luis Lopez, Cassie Nickles, Adyan Rios, Stefanie Butland, Julie Lowndes, Erin Robinson in community

March 16, 2023

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 Open Science” with speakers from University of North Carolina (UNC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, California Water Boards, NASA’s National Snow and Ice Data Center, and NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center. The goals of this session were to hear from and boost a diverse set of leaders from across the US government and academia to highlight open science in daily work, including peer-teaching, mentoring, and learning.

Openscapes Newsletter #6: Winter 2023

By Julie Lowndes and Stefanie Butland in community

February 21, 2023

Openscapes Newsletter #6: Winter 2023 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). Hello! As we continue into 2023, we at Openscapes continue to come back to the core of what we do: we engage, empower, and amplify. Whether it is with tech like Quarto and JupyterHubs or communities like R-Ladies, Ladies of Landsat, Black in Marine Science, and NASA Earthdata, it’s about welcoming folks to better ways of working and open science.

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

By Emily Markowitz, Margaret Siple, Josh London in community

February 16, 2023

In Fall 2022, Openscapes ran four concurrent Champions Cohorts that included participants from all NOAA Fisheries Science Centers, described in Nationwide Openscapes Training At NOAA Fisheries Science Centers: Facilitating Collaboration, Skill-Sharing, and Open Science. This post is the executive summary shared with Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) leadership of the work and experiences of AFSC research staff participants. Update February 21, 2023 *See also: 2022 Fall Openscapes Champion Cohort Makes Inroads to Open Science, NOAA Fisheries Feature Story AFSC supported 8 teams from across the center in the 2022 Fall Openscapes Cohort of the Openscapes Champions training program.

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

By Molly Stevens, Adyan Rios, Amanda Bradford, Kevin Stierhoff, Juliette Verstaen, Eli Holmes, Emily Markowitz, Margaret Siple, Josh London, and 150 NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Champions in champions

January 24, 2023

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. We’ll share what we did across all four Cohorts, as well as specific stories from each Cohort! We’ve also been building resources for NOAA Fisheries and beyond: https://nmfs-openscapes.github.io/ https://nmfs-opensci.github.io/ResourceBook/ https://rverse-tutorials.github.io/ Background: How NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Cohorts Worked From October-December 2022, over 150 staff from six NOAA Fisheries Science Centers and two Regional Offices, as well as from the Office of Science and Technology participated in the Openscapes Champions Program, a professional development training program for transforming analytical workflows with open science.

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

By Monica Granados, Julie Lowndes, Stefanie Butland in community

December 20, 2022

Reimagining open science as part of the climate movement 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 Leadership team of PREreview. She is an open science specialist and a trained ecologist. Monica was interviewed by Julie Lowndes, PhD, Openscapes Director. Watch the recording on Openscapes YouTube. In this conversation, we dug into what each of us can do to connect our daily work to the climate movement.

How coaching skills have made us better open data science mentors

Introducing pathway of cloud computing to the NASA user community

Openscapes Newsletter #7: Inviting you to the Reflections Program

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

Designing automated workflows, a chat with Dr. Sean Kross

3 approaches for the year of open science

Openscapes Newsletter #6: Winter 2023

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

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

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

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