2023-epa

2023 EPA Openscapes Champions Cohort

Welcome to the 2023 EPA Openscapes Champions Cohort! This is a Cohort for the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling (CEMM). Learn more about Openscapes and the EPA CEMM. Happy to be here!

Cohort Agendas

We will meet as a Cohort via MS Teams six times over two months for 1.5 hours on Wednesdays starting February 15, 2023:

Agendas are accessible to Cohort participants in our Cohort Sharepoint Folder; they are also an archive of our live notetaking. Please see https://openscapes.org/series to view blank versions of the agendas.

Date Cohort Call Topics Series Chapters Seaside Chat Topics
02/15 1. Openscapes mindset mindset, better science in less time Reflect together on what you’ve learned
03/01 2. Pathways introduction; documentation pathways Pathway trailhead; create GitHub accounts
03/15 3. GitHub Clinic: publishing and project management publishing, project management Shared organizing with GitHub
03/29 4. Team culture and data strategies for future us team culture, data strategies Onboarding documentation
04/12 5. Open communities and coding strategies for future us coding with communities, coding strategies Pathways preparation
04/26 6. Pathways share    

Cohort Call Digests are posted as issues in this repo.

Coworking times (optional)

Coworking with Julie, Stefanie, Gayle, and Jeff, for 1 hour in the weeks between Cohort Calls - day and times tbd.

Participating teams

Upcoming: These are the teams participating: please add any edits directly (we’ll learn how in our GitHub Call!) Take some inspiration from here: https://github.com/Openscapes/2021-noaa-nmfs/blob/main/README.md

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The LIS Hypoxia Prediction Team is a team composed of EPA CEMM and Long Island Sound Study members, including two ORISE fellows. This team’s focus will be on creating a model specific to the Long Island Sound for predicting hypoxia from prior years of data and other relevant parameters. We will make every attempt to incorporate Open Science principles into our work by 1) Clearly indicating all data inputs used and how they are processed, 2) Building the model in (currently) private a github repository (LIS.Hypoxia.Forecast) and tracking its progress therein, allowing all team members to contribute ideas and tweaks to improve accuracy, 3) Ultimately automating the data inflows to the model as much as possible using public facing apis from monitoring organizations, and 4) Publicizing the model with a straightforward explanation and visuals to aid in understanding its prediction mechanism.

The Streams Team is a team composed of EPA scientists in the Office of Research and Development and Virginia Department of Environmental Quality scientists in VDEQ’s probabilistic monitoring program.

Openscapes team

Julie Lowndes (@jules32), Openscapes

Stefanie Butland (@stefaniebutland), Openscapes

Gayle Hagler, EPA

Jeff Hollister (@jhollist), EPA

Farnaz Nojavan (@farnazn), EPA

More about Openscapes and the Champions program: