2022 California SWRCB Openscapes Champions Cohort
Welcome to the 2022 California SWRCB Openscapes Champions Cohort! This is a Cohort for the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB, "Water Boards"), with staff participation from the Office of Information Management and Analysis (OIMA) and the Division of Water Quality (DWQ). Learn more about Openscapes and the Champions Program: https://openscapes.org.
Cohort Agendas
We will meet as a Cohort via Zoom five times over two months for 2 hours, on alternating Wednesdays in August, September, and October 2022.
- Dates: August 17 & 31, September 14 & 28, & October 19
- Times: 1:30-3:30pm PST
- Location: Remotely, via Microsoft Teams
Agenda links below are only accessible to Cohort participants (coming soon!), as they are also an archive of our live google-docing. 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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| 08/17 | 1. Openscapes mindset | mindset, better science in less time | mindset, better science in less time | Seaside Chat (trailhead) |
| 08/31 | 2. Culture & safety and data strategies for future us | culture & safety, data strategies | team culture, data strategies | Seaside Chat (code of conduct); Co-working |
| 09/14 | 3. GitHub Clinic | GitHub for publishing (slides 1-20) and project management (slides 21-29) | GitHub strategies - publishing & project management | Hands-on collaboration in the browser: editing, committing, and Issues |
| 09/28 | 4. Documentation and pathways for future us | documentation & Pathways | Documentation, Pathways | Seaside Chat (pathways); Co-working |
| 10/19 | 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 yourself following our GitHub Clinic!
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The PFAS Team is a cross-unit project team within the Division of Water Quality at the Water Boards.
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The SWAMP Team is a unit within the Office of Information Management and Analysis at the Water Boards.
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The Performance Report Team is a project team within the Office of Information Management and Analysis at the Water Boards.
Openscapes Team
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Corey Clatterbuck, Environmental Scientist, OIMA
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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 in Less Time
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Call 2: Ileana Fenwick (UNC Chapel Hill & Openscapes) - 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