Openscapes

🚀 Registration is now open for ESA's EarthCODE Hackathon 2026! The Hackathon will bring together the communities who are using (or would like to use) EarthCODE – Learn more and register by October 16! esa-earthcode.github.io/2026-earthco...

✍🏼 blog post: Openscapes Mentor communities are Communities of Practice. openscapes.org/blog/2026-07...

✍🏼 blog post: On-ramp to FAIR data in the EarthCODE Federation. Recap and celebration of our first ESA Openscapes Champions Cohort. openscapes.org/blog/2026-06... Thanks to our partners @esa.int, EarthCODE, Lampata with Anca Anghelea, Dean Summers, Krasen Samardzhiev and participants!

📣Call to Action: civic engagement for science infrastructure openscapes.org/blog/2026-06...

Training opportunity: Reimagining complex data-intensive reports. A 5-day course for @icesmarine.bsky.social. June 22 - 26, 2026. Led by @juliesquid.bsky.social (Openscapes), Eli Holmes (NOAA Fisheries), Gavin Fay (UMass Dartmouth) openscapes.org/events/2026-... #OpenScience #KinderScience

Openscapes update from @juliesquid.bsky.social, Spring 2026. On being values-driven and strategic in open science work and in business architecture. openscapes.org/blog/2026-03... #HowWeWork #KinderScience #OpenScience

📅 March 19 @juliesquid.bsky.social will reprise her AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture: Forking as a Worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science. Everyone welcome. Details: openscapes.org/events/2026-... #openscience #kinderscience

✍🏼📣We're expanding our support of open Earth science with NASA Openscapes Mentors, with additional focus supporting suborbital science teams to develop reproducible workflows. Welcoming Ronny Hernández Mora to the Openscapes team to support this work! nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2026-03...

✍🏼Cloud migration and data preservation progress across NOAA Fisheries - Fall 2025 Champions Recap. Connecting people within & across centers as they learn new skills for data workflows. Immediately relevant for their work. Enables change that wasn’t possible before. openscapes.org/blog/2026-02...

✍🏼 People, structure, mechanics: How we led the earthaccess Dec 15 Hackday online and in New Orleans earthaccess is a Python library that simplifies access to NASA Earth science data. We designed the event to focus on building the community of contributors & adopters. openscapes.org/blog/2026-02...

✍🏼 Make your own software cheatsheet. NOAA Fisheries staff document how they figured it out and the resources they used! by Sophie Breitbard, Sam Schiano, Kelli Johnson, Kathryn Doering. Published at: nmfs-ost.github.io/noaa-fit-res... openscapes.org/blog/2026-01...

✍🏼Summary post on NASA Openscapes Champions 2025 - A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess. Links to recording, slides, notes doc nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-11...

Registration open (free!) for "A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess". Expand your knowledge and use of NASA Earthdata, building on momentum behind the earthaccess python library and workflows in the Cloud. November 13 & 14, 10am - 1pm PT. Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/champions#ch...

✍🏼 Building a Culture of Reproducible Science: Reflections from the 2025 NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Summer Workshop. 🐾 Puppies + GitHub governance + examples of work from NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Mentors in "co-creation" sessions. nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog/2025-08...

Openscapes Community Call Tues July 29: earthaccess — helping users leverage the awesomeness of NASA Earthdata. A story of building a game-changing bridge between a data system and its open communities, plus new tech features. Details & register (free) nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-07...

✍🏼A celebration of the work of NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Champions published on the Fisheries Blog! "Open Science Momentum at NOAA Fisheries". Marks our 13th Cohort for NOAA Fisheries involving nearly 500 staff and affiliates 🐟 Mentors community -> impact 💥 www.fisheries.noaa.gov/science-blog...

✍🏼 "Taking stock" to support infrastructure and people at the Fred Hutch. Wrap-up post for our 2025 Fred Hutch Openscapes Champions Cohort. Thank you to Mentors Sitapriya Moorthi, @tladeras.bsky.social, Chris Lo, @seankross.com openscapes.org/blog/2025-07... #OpenScience #KinderScience

Openscapes at the European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium in Vienna Message @juliesquid.bsky.social to meet up! She'll be talking about "Forking as a worldview: a software engineering concept transforming government agencies IRL (in real life) with Openscapes" openscapes.org/events/2025-...

Yes it IS possible to run real science workflows in different cloud Hubs – and we CAN estimate the costs. Summary of our Community Call on cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub includes links to recording, collaborative notes doc, and slides. openscapes.org/blog/2025-05...

📣 Openscapes Reflections starts Monday! 5 hrs over 4 weeks to get unstuck in your data science workflows and learn GitHub for publishing & project management. Openscapes Reflections is an open data science coaching program for researchers and those who support research. openscapes.github.io/booklet/

Registration is open for our Reflections Program - a light-weight way to reflect on your workflows and make goals going into summer. May 5-30, 2025: 1 hr/week for 3 weeks, plus our 2-hr GitHub Clinic in week 4. Details, open source materials & registration: openscapes.github.io/booklet/

Openscapes Community Call Tues Apr 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. Experts from @2i2c.org, NASA Alaska Satellite Facility, NOAA Fisheries, CryoCloud, Openscapes, share what they're building. Registration (free) openscapes.org/events/2025-...

Community Call April 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. @andyteucher.bsky.social (Openscapes), Alex Lewandowski (NASA ASF), Yuvi Panda (2i2c) sharing their experiences & what they're building. Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-04...

Good things from @ropensci.org 🤝 Openscapes social coworking discussion of "forking as a world view". ✍️The Dynamic Relationship of Forks with their Upstream Repository, by Hugo Gruson, @stefaniebutland.bsky.social & @rubyk.bsky.social openscapes.org/blog/2025-02... ropensci.org/blog/2025/02...

📣 Openscapes Champions Program at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Apr-Jun 2025! Please share. Encourage your Hutch friends to sign up! Leading this with @seankross.com @monicagerber.bsky.social @tladeras.bsky.social & Chris Lo openscapes.org/events/2025-... #OpenScience #KinderScience

Community Call 1 of Pathways to Open Science for Black marine & environmental researchers is today! "What is Open Science Anyway". Free registration is open throughout the series of Calls and Coworking sessions. Allies please share with your Black colleagues. zoom.us/meeting/regi...

blog: The Abundance of Community at the 2024 AGU Meeting. Reflections following the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2024. openscapes.org/blog/2025-01... #OpenScience #KinderScience

Ready to level up your skills in 2025? Join the “Pathways to Open Science” series by @official-bweems.bsky.social, Black in Marine Science & Openscapes, starting next Thursday! Build data science skills, community, and more! Register (free) openscapes.github.io/pathways-to-... 💻✨ #OpenScience

Looking to enhance your data science skills in the new year? Join Pathways to Open Science, our free professional development series for Black environmental & marine researchers, with speakers & coworking. Registration (free) & more information at openscapes.github.io/pathways-to-.... #OpenScience

"Solving the lonely data scientist problem", a post by @monicagerber.bsky.social to get us in the mindset for the new year! Monica Gerber is a Data Science Manager at @fredhutch.bsky.social and an Openscapes Mentor. openscapes.org/blog/2025-01... #OpenScience #KinderScience

I wrote up my thoughts on the lonely data scientist problem. I'd love to hear other people's experience with solving this, please comment! Thanks to @openscapes.bsky.social for helping me frame this. www.monicagerber.com/blog/2024-12...

At AGU Fall Meeting, the Openscapes team, mentors & collaborators - from NASA DAACs, NOAA Fisheries, EPA, UC Berkeley, U Alaska, U New Hampshire - will be giving talks & posters & participating in hackathons. Some highlights: openscapes.org/events/2024-... #OpenScience #KinderScience

Just published a post with highlights from "Openscapes recognized at The White House!", with our Community Call recording and photos!! openscapes.org/blog/2024-10...

Openscapes Newsletter #10: Fall 2024 openscapes.org/blog/2024-09... #OpenScience #KinderScience

NASA Earthdata blog: "From Onboarding to Fledging and Beyond—An Openscapes Journey. After learning how to migrate workflows to the cloud during onboarding, NASA Openscapes participants “fledge” to use their new skills in cloud-based scientific research." www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/blog/o...

📣 Community Call: Openscapes Goes to The White House! Thursday, September 26, 2024, 1 - 2 pm PT @juliesquid.bsky.social & Ileana Fenwick will interview each other to share their excitement, anxiousness, and experiences. Read more & register (free) openscapes.org/events/2024-...

Blog: Onboarding and “fledging”: How NASA Openscapes supports NASA Earthdata users in the Cloud. A session at ESIP Summer 2024 conference openscapes.org/blog/2024-08...

Congratulations to NOAA Fisheries as the Biden-Harris Administration announces $34 million to modernize NOAA Fisheries’ data, infrastructure and workforce! We are so honored that @openscapes.bsky.social is a part of this effort! www.noaa.gov/news-release... openscapes.org/blog/2024-08...