Openscapes Media

PUBLICATIONS

• Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Chad Sansing, Julia Lowndes. 3 lessons from remote meetings we’re taking back to the office. Open Source Way, 2020

• Julia S. Stewart Lowndes. Open software means kinder science. Scientific American, 2019

• Julia S. Stewart Lowndes, Halley E. Froehlich, Allison Horst, Nishad Jayasundara, Malin L. Pinsky, Adrian C. Stier, Nina O. Therkildsen & Chelsea L. Wood. Supercharge your research: a ten-week plan for open data science. Nature, Career Column, 2019

• Julia S. Stewart Lowndes, Benjamin D. Best, Courtney Scarborough, Jamie C. Afflerbach, Melanie R. Frazier, Casey C. O’Hara, Ning Jiang, & Benjamin S. Halpern. Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools.. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017 ( Openscapes origins)

MEDIA

• Openscapes: Using “The Force” of Open Science in the Cloud — Emily Cassidy. March 24, 2021. NASA Earth Data.

• Openscapes embraces kindness and inclusion of open science — January 26, 2021. SPARC Impact Stories.

• Using Git to Drive Better Science with Dr. Julie Lowndes — Kate Wing. September 17, 2020. Intertidal Podcast.

• Tech tools to make research more open and inclusive — Kendall Powell. February 3, 2020. Nature.

• The coupling of innovation and open data science tools for science has been fascinating to me and hard to tease apart: An interview with Dr Julia Stewart Lowndes — Alison Oliver. January 29, 2020. Statistics Views.

• Open Science and ‘Star Wars’ - Mozilla. July 11, 2019. Medium.

• A Rising Tide: Funding Ocean Science — Science Philanthropy Alliance. April 1, 2019. Alliance blog post.

• Julie Lowndes Wants the Force of Open Data Science to Be with You — NCEAS. March 12, 2019. NCEAS Portrait.

• Announcing Openscapes: Open Science is Better Science - Mozilla. January 29, 2019. Medium.

LESSONS

• Openscapes Champions Lesson Series — mentorship curriculum for the Champions program.
• R for Excel Users — hands-on training curriculum for a workshop at the 2020 RStudio Conference, taught over two days with the Openscapes mindset: it is a friendly and empowering intro to becoming a modern R user. Co-developed and taught with Allison Horst.
• Tidy Data Illustrated Series — artwork to illustrate why tidy data is so powerful for efficiency, reproducibility, and collaboration. Developed with and illustrated by Allison Horst.
• Openscapes Approach Guide — an open and iterating guide to document our process and onboard folks to the Openscapes approach.

PRESENTATIONS

See NASA-Openscapes for additional presentations from NASA Mentors!

• Hello Quarto: share • collaborate • teach • reimagine — July 28, 2022: Keynote at RStudio Conference with Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel (video) (60 minutes)

• A Journey to Data Science: Tools for Equity and Diversity in STEM - July 28, 2022: Talk by Ileana Fenwick at RStudio Conference (video) (20 minutes)

• Openscapes teaching practices — May 9, 2022, with Eli Holmes; High-level Group for the Modernisation of Statistical Production and Services (HLG-MOS), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Meta Academy Workshop (30 minutes) (video)

• NASA Openscapes Lessons from Year 1 - April 21, 2022: talk at ESDSWG (40 minutes)

• Community Building: The NASA Openscapes Framework - January 18, 2022: ESIP Winter Meeting (10 minutes)

• Open Project Design: Lessons from the NASA Openscapes Framework — December 17, 2021: invited talk at the Open Science in Action Session at the AGU Fall meeting (30 minutes)

• Openscapes: Better Science for Future Us — December 8, 2021: invited talk about data interoperability at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) meeting co-hosted by the Mapping Sciences Committee and the Geographical Sciences Committee (video) (20 minutes)

• Openscapes: Better Science for Future Us — December 3, 2021: Keynote at the UCSB Data Science Summit (20 minutes)

• Openscapes: Intro for NOAA AFSC — December 2, 2021 (8 minutes)

• Openscapes: Better Science for Future Us — October 14, 2021: NASA’s Open Source Science for Data Processing and Archives Workshop (5 minutes)

• Openscapes: Better Science for Future Us. Supporting NASA Earth science research teams’ migration to the cloud

  • September 16, 2021: NSIDC User Working Group
  • September 8, 2021: GES DISC User Working Group

• Openscapes: Better Science for Future Us. Supporting NASA Earth science research teams’ migration to the cloud - August 12, 2021: LP DAAC User Working Group (20 minutes)

• Better Science for Future Us — July 12, 2021: Plenary at the inaugural Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology SORTEE conference (30 minutes) (video)

• Better Science for Future Us - June 30, 2021: PANGEO Showcase (15 minutes) (PANGEO Discourse, Zenodo)

• Open science as a movement and the art of Openscapes — June 5, 2021: Keynote with Dr. Allison Horst at CascadiaR Conference (20 minutes)

• Learning to code with open science communities — June 4, 2021: Nature Webcast (video) (10 minutes)

• Openscapes for better science in less time, together — April 6, 2021: CZI Seed Networks Computational Biology Meeting (30 minutes)

• NASA DAACs Openscapes Framework — March 25, 2021: NASA ESDS-ESDIS-DAACs-IMPACT Meeting (15 minutes)

• How you can do better science in less time — March 5, 2021: University of South Florida – College of Marine Science Seminar Series with Dr. Marcus Beck: Open science lessons from Tampa Bay (20 minutes each) (video)

• Open practices for better science in less time — February 24, 2021: Open Science Community of Practice, Environment and Climate Change Canada (40 minutes) (video)

• NASA DAACs Openscapes Framework — February 10, 2021: NASA’s Earth Science Data System Working Groups (ESDSWG) (5 minutes)

• Openscapes — December 16, 2020 Invest in Open’s Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) Conference (5 minutes)

• Putting data to work through community — December 2020 Plenary Leptoukh Lecture at the American Geophysical Union Conference (video)

• Audience building for open source projects - December 8, 2020: Workshop at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Essential Open Source Software for Science Meeting (40 minutes) (zenodo)

• Normalizing talking about data - November 23, 2020: CSCCE Data Science Special Interest Group Discussion (10 minutes) (blog & video)

• R and teamwork for better science in less time - November 19, 2020: NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington (45 minutes) (presented remotely)

• How to empower researchers with open science through meeting analytical needs and supporting people - November 5, 2020. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science (published slides)

• Operationalizing better science in less time. - October 29, 2020. Integrating Open Science Tools into National Estuaries Programs Workflows Workshop

• How open data science enables better science in less time - August 8, 2020. Ecological Society of America annual conference (20 mins)

• Entryways to open data science and the power of welcome - July 16, 2020: Plenary at Earth Science Information Partners Conference, Remote (15 mins) (Figshare) (video, starts ~ 2:55)

• Data science as an entryway to open publishing - May 27, 2020: Fireside Chat co-presented with Dr. Nick Tierney at Open Publishing Fest (45 minutes), Remote (Zenodo)

• R and teamwork for better science in less time - April 21, 2020: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany (45 minutes) (presented remotely)

• Supercharging research with open data science and teamwork - March 11, 2020: Keynote at Open Science Conference, Berlin, Germany (20 minutes) (presented remotely)

• R and teamwork for better science in less time - February 25, 2020: UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST), New Bedford, Massachusetts (45 minutes)

• R and teamwork for better science in less time - February 7, 2020: Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP), Costa Mesa, California (45 minutes) (video)

• R for better science in less time - November 23, 2019: Southern California R Users All Hands Meetup, Los Angeles, California (45 minutes)

• R for better science in less time: Lessons from the Ocean Health Index and Openscapes - November 21, 2019: School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (45 minutes) (video)

• R and friends for better science in less time in big (and small) team collaborations - November 19, 2019: eScience Institute, Seattle, Washington (45 minutes) (video)

• Building communities of practice around environmental open data science - October 16, 2019: FORCE11 Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland (30 minutes) (Zenodo)

• Better science in less time: Lessons from the Ocean Health Index and Openscapes - September 5, 2019: Tampa Bay Estuary Program Open Science Workshop, St Petersburg, Florida (presented remotely) (20 minutes)

• R for better science in less time - July 10, 2019: Opening Keynote, useR Conference, Toulouse, France (45 minutes) (video, starts ~46:30)

• Building communities of practice around environmental open data science- May 8, 2019: Presentation, csv,conf,v4, Portland, Oregon, USA (20 minutes) (Zenodo)

• Building communities and changing culture with environmental open data science - April 18, 2019: LOACOM, Santa Barbara, California (20 minutes)

• How the Ocean Health Index enables better science in less time - April 15, 2019: Department Seminar, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, California (45 minutes)

• How mentorship & community enables better science in less time - February 21, 2019: Mozilla Science Fellows Summit, New York City, New York (5 minutes)

• Building communities of practice around environmental open data science - February 8, 2019: Palo Alto University Rotary Club Meeting, Palo Alto, California (20 minutes)

• Enabling Open Leaders & Open Culture in Science - December 6, 2018: Mozilla All Hands Meeting, Orlando, Florida (5 minutes)

• My Fellowship with Mozilla: Building communities of practice around environmental open data science - November 07, 2018: Roundtable, NCEAS, Santa Barbara, California (45 minutes)

• Openscapes: Building communities of practice around environmental open data science - November 15, 2018: Progress report (15 minutes)

• Increasing the value and practice of environmental open data science - October 17, 2018: Protein Sustainability Working Group, NCEAS, Santa Barbara, California (10 minutes)