Spring 2024 California Water Boards Openscapes Champions Cohort
Welcome to the Spring 2024 California Water Boards Openscapes Champions Cohort! This is a Cohort for the California State and Regional Water Boards (SWRCB, "Water Boards"), with the Instruction Team led by staff from the Office of Information Management and Analysis (OIMA). For more information, visit Openscapes at the Water Boards.
Cohort Agendas
We will meet as a Cohort via Microsoft Teams five times over two months for 2 hours, on alternating Thursdays in March, April, and May 2024.
- Dates: March 28, April 11 & 25, May 9 & 23
- Times: 1:30-3:30 pm PT
- Location: Remotely, via Microsoft Teams
Agenda links below are only accessible to Cohort participants, as they are also an archive of our of our shared notes. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/28 | 1. Openscapes mindset | mindset, better science for future us | mindset, better science in less time | Seaside Chat (reflection, orient to the Pathway) |
| 04/11 | 2. Culture & safety and Intro to the Pathway & Seaside Chats prep | culture & safety, Pathway & Seaside Chats | team culture, Pathways | Seaside Chat (Pathway trailhead); Co-working |
| 04/25 | 3. GitHub for publishing and Documentation | GitHub for publishing, documentation | GitHub for publishing, documentation | Seaside Chat (organizing with GitHub; documentation needs); Co-working |
| 05/09 | 4. GitHub for project management and Data strategies for future us | GitHub for project management, data strategies | GitHub for project management,data strategies | Seaside Chat (Pathways); Co-working X 2 |
| 05/23 | 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:
Teams - please edit this repo to add your name next to your team and/or a description of your team's topic/focus!
- BloomWatchers:
- Data Viz Team: Erica, Kiran, Madeleine. Getting a new data visualization project off the ground for DWQ's racial equity objectives.
- GOAT STORMS: Amanda, Daniel, Kelly, Shulamit. Working together to get the STORMS Unit organized!
Openscapes Instruction Team
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Instructors:Anna Holder (OIMA), Devan Burke (OIMA)
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Mentors: Lisa Hunt (Region 2), Nick Martorano (he/him) (OIMA), Michael Ben Ortiz (Office of Public Participation), Dan Wang (Division of Drinking Water)
Guest Teachers
- Call 1: Corey Clatterbuck (California Coastal Commission) - Better Science for Future Us
- Call 4: Julia Stewart Lowndes (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