Digest: Openscapes Cohort Call 05 [ 2023-nasa-champions ]

[jules32]

Hello All!

Thank you all for our fifth (final!) session. It was so impressive and inspiring to see the leaps you make in the short time of the Cohort. A huge thank you to all the NASA Openscapes mentors for their generosity in contributing and supporting in so many ways. It was really super to see how you learned from each session and used earthaccess, the Cookbook, and the Cloud Clinic in your own work. We heard your pain points with Matlab, HDF, and cloud formats, and will be working to improve these, so please continue to ask questions and share your experiences.

Funding opportunities! Joel Scott, Program Executive for NASA Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS), residing in the Chief Science Data Office (CSDO) encourages you to get in touch with him ([email protected]) to talk about funding opportunities via NSPIRES and is happy to connect folks with others in the CSDO too.

Openscapes would also love your feedback so we can improve future cohorts - including the upcoming fall NMFS cohorts; please fill out this survey by June 30. You’re now a part of this broader Openscapes community across NASA Earthdata, NOAA Fisheries, California EPA, and academic research teams that share some common goals and challenges. We’re all here to support each other; many are in Slack. We hope you feel a bit more confident about what’s possible with Cloud and open science with your teams and colleagues. This is just the beginning.

We’ve created a specific DOI for our NASA Champions Cohort (and also updated this in our Call 5 Agenda). Thanks for your feedback; we will follow up with a Certificate of Completion.
Professional Development: NASA Openscapes Champions Program, April - June, 2023 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8066433

We look forward to continuing to support your journeys! If you can make it, please join us for a ~3 month check in so we can see what everyone is up to. We'll send a calendar invite for September or October soon.

Please have someone from each team email/direct message Stef [email protected] a physical address where we can send stickers via postal service! We'll ask that you distribute them within your team.

We hope you can carry the inspiration forward with our rockin' Openscapes Spotify Playlist - updated with your tunes!

Below is a light digest of Call 5.

Erin, Julie, Stef, and the NASA Openscapes Mentors 🚀

Digest: Cohort Call 05 [ 2023-nasa-champions ]
Cohort Google Drive folder - contains agendas, video recordings, slides, pathways folder, cloud holdings spreadsheet
nasa-openscapes.github.io/2023-nasa-champions/ - cohort webpage

Goals: Each team shared their Pathway and we discussed next steps and opportunities.
Continued learning: please see the Agenda doc (under Next steps and opportunities, and Closing) for details and links

• Your Seaside Chats are a way to continue learning together
• ESIP Summer Meeting - 18-21 July, Vermont. Many NASA Openscapes Mentors attending, please find us if you're attending!
• IceSat-2 Hackweek 2023 - 7-11 August, Seattle icesat-2-2023.hackweek.io
• Carpentries - https://carpentries.org/upcoming_workshops/
• AGU Fall Meeting
  • We’d love to know if you are convening sessions or workshops or if you have presentations or posters
  • We are submitting abstract(s) to this session, “Accelerating Science: The Convergence of Inclusive Computational Resources, Cloud-Optimized Data, Open-Source Tools, and Open Collaborative Communities.”
    NASA EarthData Forum https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/

Slides and Resources:

• Please add your slides to the Pathways folder in our Cohort Google Drive folder
• NASA Earthdata Cloud Cookbook created by NASA Openscapes Mentors

A few lines from shared notes in the Agenda doc

• Would a Certificate of Completion be valuable documenting your participation as a PDF?
  • Yes +1+1+1+1+1+1+1
• ‎How are you feeling about the Cloud, and planning your transition? What are your questions and needs?
  • I love all the discussions and the hands-on sessions. I appreciate all the support provided.
  • Encouraged. Would like to go beyond data access to more in cloud processing.
  • Biggest challenge from the user standpoint is -users have to deal with different data formats that need diff libraries. Having a use case where these diff data formats can be dealt with will be very useful.
  • Still worried about doing things ‘on my own’ outside of 2i2c. And, I don’t know how to do non-interactive processing (important if I am going to a ‘production run’ that takes days.
  • Long-term planning (budgeting) is still a mystery.

Please reuse/remix resources and stay in touch
We’re learning how to continue to support teams and help strengthen our community and the open science movement after the Cohort ends

• github.com/Openscapes - pinned repositories
• openscapes.github.io/series - continually improved lessons
• openscapes.org/blog - guest posts welcome!
• Mastodon @[email protected] - tag us and we’ll retoot!
  Slack
• Newsletter ~5x/year - sign up