Openscapes Champions: CS&S Cohort

Cohort Summary

Sponsored by Code for Science and Society (CS&S)

Participating teams:

University of California Davis — Kiva Oken’s research group
Kenai Watershed Forum — Benjamin Meyer, Maura Schumacher, and Galen Hecht
Environment and Climate Change Canada — Martin Jean and Alexandra Audet
University of South Florida — Nancy Williams’ research group
Tribes and the Exchange Network — Lydia Scheer, Angie Reed, Lisa Gover, Melinda Ronca-Battista, and Natasha Fulton
University of Washington — Jacqueline Padilla-Gamino’s research group
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill — Janet Nye’s research group
University of British Columbia — Cole Burton’s research group

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Program Overview

This is a professional development and leadership opportunity for environmental research groups to explore open data science practices.

Openscapes is an approach for doing better science in less time. We help research groups reimagine data analysis, develop modern skills that are of immediate value to them, and cultivate collaborative and inclusive research communities. This opportunity is funded by Code for Science and Society (CS&S), whose event fund supports events that promote inclusion and broaden participation in open data science that drives scholarship.

Openscapes Champions is a remote-by-design, cohort-based mentorship program that guides teams through the open data science landscape, empowers them as leaders, and welcomes them as part of the growing open community. This two-month remote program will help you establish shared, reproducible practices for data analysis that help make your research group more efficient and inclusive. You will participate with others from your research group as a team, as a cohort with your peers. Together, you will learn how to reframe data analysis as a collaborative effort rather than an individual burden, through exploring open data science tools and community practices (e.g. R/RStudio, GitHub). For more information and guidance about selecting your team, please visit openscapes.org/champions.

Cohort Details

We will meet four times over two months, on alternating Fridays in 2021.

Dates: May 7, May 21, June 4, June 18
Times: 9:30-11:00am PST
Where: remotely, via Zoom
Who: Cohort of 7 environmental research teams. Each team consists of a team lead (faculty, lecturer, program manager, etc) and up to 4 team members of your choice (students, researchers, analysts, etc).
Cost: Free; this opportunity is sponsored by CS&S
Expected time commitment: In addition to 3 hours/month over Zoom as a full Champions Cohort, participants will meet independently to further discuss topics with their research group. The total expected time commitment is 5hrs/month for 2 months.

Nominate your team to participate

Nominate your team by filling out this Google Form by March 26, 2021. Please submit one nomination per team, preferably by the team lead (faculty, project manager. principal investigator, etc). We will confirm participation by early April 2021.

This opportunity is funded by Code for Science and Society (CS&S).

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Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{2021,
  author = {, Openscapes and and CS\&S, Openscapes},
  title = {Openscapes {Champions:} {CS\&S} {Cohort}},
  date = {2021-05-07},
  url = {https://www.openscapes.org/events/2021-05-07-css-champions/},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Openscapes, and Openscapes and CS&S. 2021. “Openscapes Champions: CS&S Cohort.” May 7, 2021. https://www.openscapes.org/events/2021-05-07-css-champions/.