Thanks for a great final session last Friday. Thank you to Eli, Eric and Helene for making this NMFS cohort happen, to Emily Markowitz and Chanté Davis for their guest lectures, and big thanks to all of the teams for contributions to conversations and notes throughout this Openscapes series. We loved hearing about your Pathways last week and are looking forward to continued conversations and momentum around how the NMFS community can do better science in less time - for future you, your teams, and your collaborators!
A few things to wrap up:
Openscapes survey - Eli will send this separately. We improve with each cohort based on candid feedback; Please respond by Friday Nov 12
Continuing Cohort Calls - We'll send calendar invites for our every-two-week calls, with the short-term plan of alternating these times as co-working and more scheduled share-outs. We'll invite the NOAA NMFS Cohort as well; they've just finished their cohort too and we through we could combine forces and see what next steps emerge. Feb 4 can be our 3-month check-in to reassess.
Blog post - we'll draft this in our CohortCalls folder later this week; we invite you to add comments or suggestions if you’re interested.
Snail mail! Please Slack/email an address for your team to Julie (lowndes@nceas.ucsb.edu) so we can send stickers!
We are so grateful for your thoughtful engagement and impressed with your progress and pathway plans. We hope you continue to iterate your Seaside Chats with your research groups. Please keep in touch on Slack and Twitter!
Goals: Each team shared their pathway and we discussed how to keep momentum going forward.
Themes that came across through the final pathways shares:
Lots of interest in investing time to developing documentation of onboarding/offboarding processes, codes of conduct, available datasets/data description guides, methodologies.
Collaboration is essential within teams and with external partners, but onboarding people who are outside your Openscapes team remains a challenge -- some groups are doing well, but others still have questions and need time to do this. Some resources include AFSC's onboarding document and using this Github in NOAA & NMFS page in the wiki.
The culture of engaging in good data practices requires dedicated time, including coworking times where data organization is specifically discussed.
You can put it on your website, like the Wood Lab and the Fay Lab!
A few lines from shared notes in the Agenda doc:
time to learn and practice; buy-in from team members and time to get them up to speed (trained); coordination with team members and collaborators (it takes time to build relationships, communicate, etc) +1+1
Getting everyone in the group to commit to the Pathway; taking the time to create the much needed documentation +1 +1 +1
Maybe the NMFS has an “open science team” or some such to propose center-wide approaches to software platforms, project management, data management, workflows, styles, etc. (all the things we have been talking about in Openscapes)?
some of us within FRAM and SDM have discussed codifying bits of time in performance plans to dedicate to enterprise-level data services, and I think your idea of a “open science team” would fit nicely into that framework.
how do we ensure this momentum continues into tangible actions? This has always been a challenge given everyone’s high workload. Creating and developing lines of communications and platforms takes time and effort. To be successful we will need to have individuals to continue to spearhead these efforts to ensure momentum is not lost.
Hi @Openscapes/2021-noaa-nmfs-team ,
Thanks for a great final session last Friday. Thank you to Eli, Eric and Helene for making this NMFS cohort happen, to Emily Markowitz and Chanté Davis for their guest lectures, and big thanks to all of the teams for contributions to conversations and notes throughout this Openscapes series. We loved hearing about your Pathways last week and are looking forward to continued conversations and momentum around how the NMFS community can do better science in less time - for future you, your teams, and your collaborators!
A few things to wrap up:
Openscapes survey - Eli will send this separately. We improve with each cohort based on candid feedback; Please respond by Friday Nov 12
NMFS R UG upcoming events
Continuing Cohort Calls - We'll send calendar invites for our every-two-week calls, with the short-term plan of alternating these times as co-working and more scheduled share-outs. We'll invite the NOAA NMFS Cohort as well; they've just finished their cohort too and we through we could combine forces and see what next steps emerge. Feb 4 can be our 3-month check-in to reassess.
Blog post - we'll draft this in our CohortCalls folder later this week; we invite you to add comments or suggestions if you’re interested.
Snail mail! Please Slack/email an address for your team to Julie (lowndes@nceas.ucsb.edu) so we can send stickers!
We are so grateful for your thoughtful engagement and impressed with your progress and pathway plans. We hope you continue to iterate your Seaside Chats with your research groups. Please keep in touch on Slack and Twitter!
Cheers,
Eli, Corey, and Julie
Digest: Cohort Call 4 [ 2021-NOAA-NMFS ]
CohortCalls folder - contains video recordings and completed agendas openscapes.github.io/2021-noaa-nmfs - Cohort webpage https://github.com/nmfs-openscapes - NMFS Openscapes community going forward Join the Openscapes Slack group to stay connected with all the Openscapes cohorts Click this invite link
Goals: Each team shared their pathway and we discussed how to keep momentum going forward.
Themes that came across through the final pathways shares:
Resources:
A few lines from shared notes in the Agenda doc: