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2024 EPA Openscapes Champions Cohort
Welcome to the 2024 EPA 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. Learn more about Openscapes, the Champions Program, and the EPA CEMM.
Cohort Agendas
We will meet as a Cohort via Zoom five times over two months for 1.5 hours each:
- Dates: April 10, 24, May 8, 22, June 5
- Times: 1:00 - 2:30 pm ET / 10:00 - 11:30 am PT
- Location: Remotely, via MS Teams
Agendas are accessible to Cohort participants in our Cohort Teams Drive Folder; they are also an archive of our live notetaking. Please see openscapes.org/series to view blank versions of the agendas.
| Date | Cohort Call Topics | Series Chapters | Seaside Chat Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/10 | Openscapes mindset | mindset, better science in less time | Reflect together on what you’ve learned |
| 04/24 | GitHub for publishing & project management | publishing, project management | Shared organizing with GitHub |
| 05/08 | Team culture and data strategies for future us | team culture, data strategies | Onboarding documentation |
| 05/22 | Open communities and coding strategies for future us | open communities, coding strategies | Pathways preparation |
| 06/05 | Pathways share and next steps |
Co-working times (optional)
Co-working sessions are where we work at the same time together. Sometimes, this means quiet work with check-ins to break up focused work and get feedback, and sometimes this involves asking questions and screensharing to learn and problem solve.
- Dates: Thursdays April 18, May 2, 16, 30
- Times: 11:00 - 12:00 PT / 2:00 - 3:00 pm ET
- Location: remotely, via Teams
Participating teams and individuals
Some brief information about participating teams and individual scientists in the cohort. Please add any edits directly (we’ll learn how in our GitHub Clinic!). Take some inspiration from NOAA Fisheries Champions teams.
You might add:
- What kind of team you are (cross-divisional) or where you are from (division focusing on…)
- Links to your program and what you are working on together
- Brief description of your potential projects
- Who is on your team
Openscapes Team
Julie Lowndes (@jules32), Openscapes
Stefanie Butland (@stefaniebutland), Openscapes
Gayle Hagler (@ghaglerepa), EPA
Jeff Hollister (@jhollist), EPA
Farnaz Nojavan (@farnazn), EPA
Mike McManus EPA
More about 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 April 10.
- 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