05 Call Digest

[jules32]

Hello All!

Thank you all for our fifth (final!) session. It was wonderful to see the real progress you made in the short time of the Cohort. A huge thank you to all the NASA Openscapes mentors for their contributions and support that showed up in so many ways. It was really great to see how, following the Earthdata Cloud Clinic in Call 2, you were able to practice and incorporate the following lessons into your further exploring with earthaccess, the Cookbook, and parallelizing code.

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 14. 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 Certificates of Completion following feedback from previous cohorts, please find them in our Cohort Folder.

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 the Fall soon.

Please have someone from each team email/direct message Julie ([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.

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

Digest: Cohort Call 05 [ 2024-nasa-champions ]
Openscapes_CohortCalls [ 2024-nasa-champions ] Google folder - contains agendas, recordings, pathways
https://openscapes.github.io/2024-nasa-champions - cohort webpage

Goals: Each team will share their Pathways and we’ll discuss next steps.

Resources

• 2i2c access continues: https://github.com/NASA-Openscapes/2i2cAccessPolicies
• Earthdata Cloud Cookbook - welcoming contributors
  • https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/earthdata-cloud-cookbook/ (citation)
  • video by Cassie Nickles

Funding opportunities https://nspires.nasaprs.com/

• Topical Workshops Symposiums, and Conferences (TWSC):
• F.7 Support for Open-Source Tools, Frameworks, and Libraries
• F.17 Multidomain Reusable Artificial Intelligence Tools
• F.14 High Priority Open-Source Science
• F.9 Citizen Science Seed Funding Program
• F.8 Supplements for Open-Source Science

AWS Cloud credits - from Chris Stoner

• You can apply for credits at any time using Earth on AWS cloud credits program: https://aws.amazon.com/earth/research-credits
• Also, if you create a derived dataset from PACE or other ocean products, let me know as that derived dataset might be a good fit for the AWS Open Data program (https://opendata.aws/) if you want the make the data available to the public for free. If you want to make a dataset available, but need to charge (to cover costs etc.), you can do that through AWS Data Exchange - https://aws.amazon.com/data-exchange
• If you want to look at this from a Sustainability lens, we also have Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI)

A few lines from shared notes in the Agenda doc:

• How do we make NOAA data more like NASA data that is in a single location, organized, and useable in the cloud?
• earthaccess.explore(): Interactivity without having to download data
  • Experimental, not yet available in the package:
  • After doing a normal earthaccess data search and saving the results to a “results” variable, you can do
  • earthaccess.explore(results, …) to visualize those search results in an interactive GUI

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
  • nasa-openscapes.github.io - all NASA Openscapes work linked from here
  • 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