2026-nasa-champions
2026 NASA Openscapes Champions
Welcome to the 2026 NASA Openscapes Cohort! This is a Cohort for NASA researchers to learn open science approaches for your daily workflows and strengthen collaboration and reproducibility as suborbital data producers. To learn more about what to expect (the purpose, outcomes, and process of our Cohort) and to browse the open lesson materials, please see the Champions Program Lesson Series.
Cohort Agendas
We will meet as a Cohort via Zoom four times over one month for 1.5 hours each:
- Dates: Wednesdays, June 3, 10, 17, 24
- Times: 10:00 - 11:30 PT
- Location: remotely, via Zoom
Agendas are accessible to Cohort participants in our Cohort Google Drive Folder; they are also an archive of our live google-docing. Please see https://openscapes.github.io/series/ to view blank versions of the agendas.
| Cohort Call Topics | Lesson Series Chapters | Reflections Prompts |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Openscapes mindset | mindset, better science for future us by Dr. Ian Carroll (OB.DAAC) | week 1 |
| 2. GitHub for publishing & project management | publishing, project management | week 2 |
| 3. Team culture, and Documenting with Notebooks | team culture, documenting with notebooks | week 3 |
| 4. Metadata for Suborbital, and Pathways | metadata for suborbital by Dr. Rupesh Shrestha (ORNL), pathways |
Participating teams and individuals
Some brief information about participating teams and individuals. Please add any edits directly (we’ll learn how in our GitHub Clinic!)
Our Team
Julie Lowndes (@jules32), Openscapes
Stefanie Butland (@stefaniebutland), Openscapes
Andy Teucher (@teucher), Openscapes
Ronny A. Hernández Mora (@ronnyhdez), Openscapes
More about Openscapes and the Champions program:
- Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools (Lowndes et al. 2017) - This describes a marine science team’s transition to open collaborative teamwork. It was the original inspiration for creating the Champions Program and heavily influences the Core Lessons. We’ll ask that everyone participating reads it before our first Cohort Call.
- Supercharge your research: a ten-week plan for open data science (Lowndes et al. 2019) - This was co-authored with the inaugural Champions Cohort, capturing the most valuable take-aways for marine and environmental science early career faculty.
- Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science (Lowndes et al. 2024) - This was co-authored by Openscapes mentors across organizations – including NASA Earthdata, NOAA Fisheries, EPA, California Water Boards, Pathways to Open Science, Fred Hutch Cancer Center.