2023-swrcb
2023 California Water Boards Openscapes Champions Cohort
Welcome to the 2023 California Water Boards Openscapes Champions Cohort! This is a Cohort for the California State and Regional Water Boards (SWRCB, “Water Boards”), with the Instruction Team led by staff from the Office of Information Management and Analysis (OIMA) and the Division of Water Quality (DWQ). Learn more about Openscapes at the Water Boards: https://cawaterboarddatacenter.github.io/swrcb-openscapes/.
Cohort Agendas
We will meet as a Cohort via Microsoft Teams five times over two months for 2 hours, on alternating Wednesdays in August, September, and October 2023.
- Dates: August 16 & 30, September 13 & 27, October 11
- Times: 9:30-11:30am PT
- Location: Remotely, via Microsoft Teams
Agenda links below are only accessible to Cohort participants, as they are also an archive of our of our shared notes. Please see https://openscapes.org/series for more detail and to view blank versions of the agendas.
| Date | Cohort Call Agendas | Presentation Slides | Openscapes Lessons | Between Cohort Calls |
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| 08/16 | 1. Openscapes mindset | mindset, better science for future us | mindset, better science in less time | Seaside Chat (reflection, orient to the Pathway) |
| 08/30 | 2. Culture & safety and Intro to the Pathway & Seaside Chats prep | culture & safety, Pathway & seaside chats | team culture, Pathways | Seaside Chat (Pathway trailhead); Co-working |
| 09/13 | 3. GitHub for publishing and Documentation | GitHub for publishing, documentation | GitHub for publishing, documentation | Seaside Chat (organizing with GitHub; documentation needs); Co-working |
| 09/27 | 4. GitHub for project management and Data strategies for future us | GitHub for project management, data strategies | GitHub for project management,data strategies | Seaside Chat (pathways); Co-working X 2 |
| 10/11 | 5. Pathways share | Open communities |
The Water Boards has a GitHub organization which is currently creating its guidance for contributions. Tip: You can listen instead of read material online via talkify.
Participating teams
These are the teams participating: please edit this repo to add your name next to your team!
- Conservation Data Squad:
- Data for Equity:
- RegDev Web Wizards:
- ReLEPtrons:
- Waterbears: Alisha Wenzel, Leonardo Lugo, Ryan Brown, Yared Kebede
- Water Data Detectives: Leann Castle, Naeem Ahmad, Mike D’Anna, Rassam Zarghami, Bethany Robinson
Openscapes Instruction Team
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Anna Holder, Environmental Scientist & Tribal Coordinator, OIMA
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Devan Burke, Associate Governmental Program Analyst, OIMA
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Tina Ures, Engineering Geologist, DWQ
Guest Teachers
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Call 1: Julia Stewart Lowndes (Openscapes) - Better Science for Future Us
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Call 3: Corey Clatterbuck (California Coastal Commission) - Documentation
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Call 4: Emily Markowitz (NOAA Fisheries) - Data Strategies for Future Us
More Background on Openscapes and the Champions program:
- Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools (Lowndes et al 2017, Nature Ecology & Evolution) - this paper greatly influences the whole Champions program and we’ll ask that everyone participating reads it before our first Cohort Call on September 9.
- Openscapes: Better Science for Future Us - 2021 plenary talk at the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE) inaugural conference
- Openscapes embraces kindness and inclusion in open science - 2021 article about Openscapes
- openscapes.org – Openscapes is operated at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, UC Santa Barbara