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## 2023 goals

- Strengthen the DAAC Mentor community as they develop and teach a common set of tutorials and coordinate and lead learning events, in part through our twice monthly Openscapes Cohort Calls.
- Reuse and refine shared teaching resources, share stories and lessons learned at conferences and meetups
- Strengthen the DAAC Mentor community as they develop and teach a common set of tutorials and coordinate and lead learning events, in part through our twice monthly Openscapes Cohort Calls.
- Reuse and refine shared teaching resources, share stories and lessons learned at conferences and meetups
- Lead events together (a hackathon and Champions cohort) with research teams, with Mentors assisting to support researchers and learn new modalities of support
- Identify a plan for sustainability, including the technical and social infrastructure needed. Shift to a more of a community structure from a cohort structure
- Identify a plan for sustainability, including the technical and social infrastructure needed. Shift to a more of a community structure from a cohort structure

## Our schedule

We have twice-monthly Mentor Calls, which are planning and learning sessions that currently are semi-structured. We kickoff those calls with about 10 mins of check in and agenda design and then we will move to proposed topics. In alternating weeks, we have Coworking sessions to work on shared goals together, screensharing and often working in the 2i2c JupyterHub and in GitHub.
We have twice-monthly Mentor Calls, which are planning and learning sessions that currently are semi-structured. We kickoff those calls with about 10 mins of check in and agenda design and then we will move to proposed topics. In alternating weeks, we have Coworking sessions to work on shared goals together, screensharing and often working in the 2i2c JupyterHub and in GitHub.


1. **Winter & Spring -** We have twice-monthly Mentor Calls and Coworking sessions in alternating weeks. February-May focused extended Coworking sessions to be [Cookbook Hackdays](https://github.com/nasa-openscapes/earthdata-cloud-cookbook#hackdays). Mentors collaborated leading workshops and talks.
1. **Winter & Spring -** We have twice-monthly Mentor Calls and Coworking sessions in alternating weeks. February-May focused extended Coworking sessions to be [Cookbook Hackdays](https://github.com/nasa-openscapes/earthdata-cloud-cookbook#hackdays). Mentors collaborated leading workshops and talks.

2. **Spring Champions Cohort -** We supported [7 research teams](https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/2023-nasa-champions/) to learn, discuss, and plan what transitioning their workflows with NASA Earthdata could look like in the Cloud.

3. **Summer and ESIP meeting -** In July and August we planned to take a break from our biweekly calls to let this group rest. However, there was interest to keep the momentum and ability to collaborate with anyone available, so we have continued to host biweekly calls and move forward with AGU workshop proposals, and have guest speakers. In July many Mentors met in person at the ESIP Summer Conference in Vermont, including for a one-day retreat-workshop to shape sustainability plans for the group.
- Guest speakers:
- Aug 3 - NOAA Fisheries - NASA Mentors exchange
- Aug 23 - Aimee Barciauskas will present the initial cloud optimized data guide for feedback and determine next steps for sharing science tutorials from VEDA and MAAP
- Sept 6 - Cedric Wannaz, MathWorks to demo Matlab in 2i2c and analysis-in-place workflow (direct access/reading the data). Previous demo: <https://youtube.com/watch?v=JrIp-LFpPAI>
4. **Fall -** We will have our first Mentor Call with the full group of mentors on Sept 20 - to introduce everyone and orient around the NASA Openscapes project. Our initial call will include sharing plans, UWGs and other events on the calendar and continuing [onboarding new DAAC mentors](https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/earthdata-cloud-cookbook/contributing/onboarding.html). In preparing for AGU workshops in December, returning DAAC mentors will lead teaching dry runs with the cloud tutorials as a way to onboard the group to data access in the cloud and to get your fresh perspective on our existing material. (What works? What's confusing?). **We meet alternating Wednesdays from 10-11:30 PT, starting Sept 20.** If you'd like to join us please email lowndes at nceas.ucsb.edu.

4. **Fall -** We will have our first Mentor Call with the full group of mentors on Sept 20 - to introduce everyone and orient around the NASA Openscapes project. Our initial call will include sharing plans, UWGs and other events on the calendar and continuing [onboarding new DAAC mentors](https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/earthdata-cloud-cookbook/contributing/onboarding.html). In preparing for AGU workshops in December, returning DAAC mentors will lead teaching dry runs with the cloud tutorials as a way to onboard the group to data access in the cloud and to get your fresh perspective on our existing material. (What works? What's confusing?). **Our Mentor Calls are on alternating Wednesdays from 10-11:30 PT, starting Sept 20.** We also cowork on specific topics in alternating weeks. If you'd like to join us please email lowndes at nceas.ucsb.edu.

### Calendar

Mentor Calls (Planning) and Coworking Calls (screensharing and doing)

### Coiled
| Date | Mentor Call Topics | Coworking Call Topics |
|---------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Aug 3 | | NOAA Fisheries - NASA Mentors exchange |
| Aug 9 | AGU Workshop abstracts refinement | |
| Aug 17 | | [Coiled.io](https://www.coiled.io/) collaboration kickoff with Champions teams |
| Aug 23 | Aimee Barciauskas will present the initial cloud optimized data guide for feedback and determine next steps for sharing science tutorials from VEDA and MAAP | |
| Aug 31 | | R Cloud Hackdays kickoff; [Carl Boettiger](https://www.carlboettiger.info/) |
| Sept 6 | Cedric Wannaz, MathWorks to demo Matlab in 2i2c and analysis-in-place workflow (direct access/reading the data). Previous demo: <https://youtube.com/watch?v=JrIp-LFpPAI> | |
| Sept 14 | | JupyterBook and JupyterHubs via CI - <https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/statement-of-need-integrating-jupyterbook-and-jupyterhubs-via-ci/2705/14?u=betolink> |
| Sept 20 | Fall Kickoff & new mentors onboarding | |

### Coiled

This Fall we will also be working with [Coiled.io](https://www.coiled.io/), with the goal to support Mentors' and Champions' Cloud workflows on their own laptops as a viable pathway forward when they leave our JupyterHub, and for us all to learn more about what this looks like and how to parallelize computation in the cloud. To sign up for Coiled, please fill out [this Google Form](https://forms.gle/a4kBrQ9HWZpGXp8m8).

### R Cloud Hackdays

This Fall during our coworking calls we'll focus one breakout room on R tutorial development for the Cookbook. We'll be joined by [Carl Boettiger](https://www.carlboettiger.info/) (Department of [Environmental Science, Policy and Management](http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/) and [Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment](https://dse.berkeley.edu/about) at UC Berkeley, co-founder of [rOpenSci](https://ropensci.org/))!

# Ongoing and Previous Activities

**2022 goals:**

- Strengthen the DAAC Mentor community of practice as they develop and teach a common set of tutorials and coordinate and lead learning events, in part through our twice monthly Openscapes Cohort Calls
- Reuse and refine shared teaching resources, share stories and lessons learned at conferences and meetups
- Reuse and refine shared teaching resources, share stories and lessons learned at conferences and meetups
- Lead events together (a hackathon and Champions cohort) with research teams, with Mentors assisting to support researchers and learn new modalities of support


**Our schedule:**

1. **Mentor kick-off 1:1's!** We'd like to meet with each DAAC mentor team to get to know you and discuss the specific needs of your DAAC and the research teams you support. Please coordinate with the others from your DAAC and book a 30-minute intro meeting the week of June 17 (or June 24 as a back-up). 
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<https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/2022-nasa-champions/>



### 2021 Cloud Hackathon

The **Cloud Hackathon: Transitioning Earthdata Workflows to the Cloud** is a virtual 5-day (4 hours per day) collaborative open science learning experience aimed at exploring, creating, and promoting effective cloud-based science and applications workflows using NASA Earthdata Cloud data, tools, and services (among others), in support of Earth science data processing and analysis in the era of big data. All details and tutorials are available at: <https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/2021-Cloud-Hackathon/>.<br>


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Mentors Cohort Calls Summaries
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- **Late Summer and Fall**: We are preparing for the 2021 Cloud Hackathon, and using our Cohort Calls and additional Co-working sessions to develop and practice tutorials. Learn more: <https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/2021-Cloud-Hackathon>
--->

```
# Mentor Community

The NASA Openscapes Mentors community is growing! Mentors from five DAACs continuing from 2021 are noted with an \* below. We are excited to see the DAAC mentor community expand across the initial five DAACs to seven DAACS with ORNL and ASF Mentors joining us in 2022. Welcome!

### Andy Barrett*
### Andy Barrett\*

### Chris Battisto

Chris is a Scientific Developer working at the Goddard Earth Sciences Data Information Services Center (GES DISC). He focuses on creating documentation and guides relating to a wide array of GES DISC user support needs, including cloud data access methods and help desk queries. Chris has a background in meteorology, and received a master's degree in geography from Northern Illinois University in 2021. 

### Brandon Bottomley

### Aaron Friesz*
### Aaron Friesz\*

Aaron Friesz is the Science Coordination Lead at NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC). In his role, Aaron provides user needs insights and technical support for archive and distribution, service development, and outreach activities. He develops tutorials, scripts, and presentations that highlight the use of land remote sensing data in analysis workflows. More recently, his work has focused on advocating for the uptake of cloud computing in the land remote sensing community.

### Shubhankar Gahlot

### Iksha Gurung

### Alexis Hunzinger*
### Alexis Hunzinger\*

[Alexis Hunzinger](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-hunzinger) is a Support Scientist at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), focused on addressing the needs of the user community. Alexis works closely with the GES DISC User Working Group, fielding concerns and suggestions to be implemented at the DAAC. She also leads the effort at GES DISC of developing guides, tutorials, and other resources designed to educate and welcome users to the Earthdata Cloud.

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Bri is a Geospatial Data Scientist at NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC).  Bri is formally trained as an ecologist and remote sensing scientist and is deeply interested in facilitating the fusion of diverse remote sensing products with field data to enhance scientific insight. As a visual learner and science-oriented coder, Bri is focused on making materials that are easy to understand and likes to convert challenging concepts into flexible and easy-to-apply approaches.

### Luis Lopez*
### Luis Lopez\*

[Luis Lopez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/betolink/) is a Research Software Engineer at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado. He has helped develop tools and services to facilitate data access and discoverability across different NASA Earth missions. He is a passionate advocate of open science and has contributed to open source projects such as Apache Nutch, PyLDAVis and others. He's always happy to help scientists find ways to make their workflows more efficient. Luis has presented his work at SciPy LATAM, PyData Global and the IEEE annual Big Data symposium.

### Catalina Oaida Taglialatela*
### Catalina Oaida Taglialatela\*

[**Catalina M. OaidaTaglialatela, PhD**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/catalina-oaida-1128b488/) is an Applied Science System Engineer at NASA's JPL (and PO.DAAC), combining hydrology and Earth science domain expertise (science researcher by training) with a system engineering perspective. Focus on broadening the user base for NASA Earth observations and remote sensing data in the Cloud, and helping increase discoverability, accessibility and usability of these data for the science research and applications communities, and enabling shorter "time to science". Reducing those barriers to science when data and services are in the cloud, while recognizing that there is a great diversity in user needs, experiences, domain expertise, access to resources - create and implement a comprehensive plan to ensure as many of these user 'types' are supported. Develop science use cases as training examples, leveraging open data and open science (and tools). Learning from others and co-creating.

### Celia Ou

### Jack McNelis*
### Jack McNelis\*

Jack McNelis is a Science Applications Software Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (and the PO.DAAC) with experience leveraging EOS data for rangeland ecosystem monitoring applications. He develops and curates metadata to describe PO.DAAC data holdings, and to better integrate them with data delivery services and end user softwares. He also develops resources for users to be better prepared to implement their analyses in the cloud.

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### Christine Smit

### Amy Steiker*
### Amy Steiker\*

Amy Steiker is the NSIDC DAAC Data Services Engineer, specializing in the development and management of data education resources, tools, and services for NSIDC DAAC's growing user community, as well as data transformation service development for NASA EOSDIS. She is excited to join this first Openscapes cohort to work together with our science communities to develop and sustain tooling that supports their data processing workflows as they transition to the Earthdata Cloud.

### Michele Thornton

### Makhan Virdi*
### Makhan Virdi\*

[Makhan Virdi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlvirdi/) is the ASDC DAAC Scientist, experienced in creating geospatial tools and services for science-based analysis, visualization (UI/UX), discovery and distribution of data generated by field/laboratory observations, remote sensing, and model simulation. He is interested in AI/ML for earth science data, multi-sensor data fusion, and data analytics in the cloud. He is excited to be part of the Openscapes community, and is looking forward to learning from peers, and sharing his knowledge and skills with the community to develop and promote data science techniques, best practices, and inter-agency collaborations.

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