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2025 Reflections Program

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An open data science coaching program for researchers and those who support research.

May 5, 2025
Openscapes

What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub

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On April 22, 2025 Openscapes hosted a Community Call to share what we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHubs. We are working deeply…
May 1, 2025
Andy Teucher, Alex Lewandowski, Eli Holmes, Tasha Snow, Yuvi , Julie Lowndes

Community Call: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub

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Beyond “it depends” - learning about cloud costs for science by building reusable open tooling for monitoring and reporting

Apr 22, 2025
Openscapes

Openscapes Newsletter #11: Spring 2025

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Welcome to Openscapes’ eleventh newsletter! If you’re interested in seeing these infrequent updates in your inbox, please sign up here (linked from our connect with us page).…
Apr 3, 2025
Julie Lowndes, Stefanie Butland

openscapes.cloud: A central place for Openscapes JupyterHubs and documentation

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We have created a centralized web resource for the 2i2c JupyterHubs that we host with NASA and NOAA Fisheries, for learning and experimenting with cloud computing: https://op…
Jan 9, 2025
Andy Teucher

AGU: What’s Next for Science

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Presentations from the Openscapes community - NASA Earthdata, NOAA Fisheries, EPA, and the Openscapes Team - at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2024 conference

Dec 9, 2024
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Openscapes recognized at The White House!

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Recognized for movement building for a kinder open science for future us: cross-agency effort at NOAA Fisheries, NASA, and EPA

Oct 3, 2024
Ileana Fenwick, Julie Lowndes

Community Call: Openscapes Goes to The White House!

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Julie Lowndes & Ileana Fenwick will debrief their White House trip and share the celebration of Openscapes being recognized at the ’Celebration of the OSTP Year of Open…

Sep 26, 2024
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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

Plenary at internal NASA meeting: Together We Innovate

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PI Planning, Fall 2024

Sep 10, 2024
Openscapes

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

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

Supporting NASA Earthdata users in the Cloud: NASA Openscapes onboarding and ‘fledging’

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A facilitated session at ESIP summer 2024

Jul 23, 2024
Openscapes and NASA

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

Learn about and use Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Data!

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SWOT workshop at Hacking Limnology Virtual Summit

Jul 16, 2024
Hacking Limnology Virtual Summit, NASA PO.DAAC & Openscapes

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
Openscapes

How the NASA Openscapes community supports Earthdata users migrating workflows to the Cloud

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A presentation for the NOAA Enterprise Data Management (EDMW) Workshop

May 14, 2024
Openscapes and NASA

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

NASA Openscapes Champions Cohort

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Openscapes Champions Cohort for research teams using data from NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) and interested in open science and migrating their analytical…

Apr 3, 2024
Openscapes and NASA

Learn about and use methane plume data from EMIT!

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EMIT Data Tutorial Series virtual workshop

Mar 14, 2024
Openscapes and NASA

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 Earthdata Webinar. Community Developed Cloud Computing Resources: the Cloud Cookbook from NASA Openscapes

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Speakers, Bri Lind, LP DAAC; Cassie Nickles, PO.DAAC; Luis Lopez, NSIDC; Alexis Hunzinger, GES DISC

Feb 28, 2024
Openscapes and NASA

NASA Earth Science Data Systems Technology Spotlight

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with Luis Lopez from the National Snow and Ice Data Center

Feb 26, 2024
Openscapes and NASA

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

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An open work in progress

Feb 20, 2024
Openscapes

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 (Openscapes), 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
Openscapes

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

Activities at the AGU Fall Meeting

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Workshops, Talks, Posters, Demos, and more

Dec 10, 2023
NASA Openscapes

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

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

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
Xiaohua Pan

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

Previous News 2021-2022

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As we migrate posts from 2021-2022, please find them here on the main openscapes.org website:
Dec 31, 2022
Julie Lowndes and Erin Robinson

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
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