This repo is for high-level planning for AGU December 15-19, 2025, in New Orleans, LA
Below is information workshops, talks, posters, and demos by the NASA Openscapes Mentors and collaborators. Expanding a talk or poster item below reveals an AGU link for full author list, abstract, time, and location.
Presenter Resources; Poster Requirements
When are people there? Please add yourself!
- Julie: DD night - DD evening
- Amy
- Luis
Monday Dec 15, 1:00 - 6:00 pm CST.
Details coming soon.
Supported in part by ESIP FUNding Friday.
Talks
Talk: Showing up at other people's parties: interoperable communities building robust science infrastructure for data stewardship and cloud workflows. (Invited) 10:45 – 10:56 CST. Point of contact: Julia Stewart Lowndes, Openscapes
https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1902615
Authors: Julia Stewart Lowndes, Openscapes, San Francisco, United States, Stefanie Butland, Openscapes, LLC, Santa Barbara, United States, Rachael E Blake, Intertidal Agency, Maryland, United States and Elizabeth E Holmes, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, United States
Session: ED12A: Advancing Pathways to Inclusive, Transparent, and Globally Engaged Geoscience Education I Oral
Monday,15 December 2025, 10:30 - 12:00 CST 346-347 (New Orleans Convention Center)
Posters
Poster: Scaling SAR Data Processing for NISAR: OpenScienceLab's Role in NASA's Science Cloud. Point of contact: Sargent Shriver, ASF.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1958934
Authors: Sargent Shriver1, Franz Josef Meyer2, Alex Lewandowski2, Eric Lundell1, Dylan Palmieri1, Brian Buechler1, Cameron Showalter1 and Samuel Gallagher1, (1)Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, United States, (2)Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Monday,15 December 2025, 08:30 - 12:00 CST Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (New Orleans Convention Center)
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Talk: IN23A-04 The extensible social infrastructure enabling NASA Earthdata science in the cloud (Invited) 14:50 - 15:00 CST. Point of contact: Julia Stewart Lowndes, Openscapes
https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1902613
Authors: Julia Stewart Lowndes, Openscapes, San Francisco, United States, Amy E Steiker, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, Andrew Teucher, Openscapes, Victoria, Canada, Yuvi Panda, University of California, Berkeley, Division of Computing, Data Science and Society, Berkeley, United States, Mahsa Jami, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, United States, Elizabeth E Holmes, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, United States and NASA Openscapes Mentors
Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 CST 294 (New Orleans Convention Center)
Talk: IN23A-05 Virtual dataset integration into earthaccess: Community contributions to enable Earth science at scale 15:00 - 15:10 CST. Point of Contact: Daniel Edward Kaufman
https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1972814
Authors: Daniel Edward Kaufman**1,2, Amy E Steiker3, Joseph H Kennedy4, Chris Battisto5, Luis Alberto Lopez3, Dean Henze6, Ayush Nag7, Miguel Jimenez-Urias8, Thomas Nicholas9, Julius Johannes Marian Busecke10 and Julia Stewart Lowndes11, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Atmospheric Science Data Center, Hampton, United States, (2)Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., Washington, D.C., United States, (3)National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle, United States, (8)OPeNDAP, Inc., Butte, MT, United States, (9)Earthmover PBC, New York, United States, (10)Development Seed, New York, United States, (11)Openscapes, San Francisco, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 14:15 - 15:45 CST 294 (New Orleans Convention Center)
Talk: IN23A-08 Building interoperable research communities with Jupyter: Lessons from CryoCloud and beyond (Invited) 15:30 - 15:40 CST. Point of contact Tasha Snow.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1978783
Authors: Tasha Snow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Joanna Millstein, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States, Chris Holdgraf, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Berkeley, United States, Yuvi Panda, University of California, Berkeley, Division of Computing, Data Science and Society, Berkeley, United States, Dr. James Colliander, PhD, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Vancouver, Canada and CryoCloud, 2i2c, Development Seed, NASA/NOAA NMFS Openscapes, NASA HelioCloud, NASA VEDA, NASA Fornax, NASA SMCE, and EarthScope GeoLab Teams
Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 15:30 - 15:40 CST 294 (New Orleans Convention Center)
Posters
Poster: SAR Foundations to NISAR: Self-Guided Education with ASF Notebooks. Point of contact: Alex Lewandowski, ASF
https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1967602
Authors: Alex Lewandowski1, Mario Angarita2, Kenneth Arnoult3, Brian Buechler3, Samuel Gallagher3, Joseph H Kennedy4, Zachary Hoppinen3, Eric Lundell5, Franz Josef Meyer6, Dylan Palmieri3, Andrew Player3, Cameron Showalter3 and Sargent Shriver3, (1)Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Alaska Satellite Facility, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, (3)Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 08:30 - 12:00 CST Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (New Orleans Convention Center)
Poster: ASF’s Cloud-native Data Service Portfolio To Accelerate Your Geospatial Science. Point of contact: Franz Josef Meyer, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1984872
Authors: Franz Josef Meyer1, Joseph H Kennedy2, Sargent Shriver3, Kathleen Kristenson3, Christy Fleming3, Greg Short3, Alex Lewandowski4 and Forrest F. Williams3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, United States, (3)Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, United States, (4)Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 14:15 - 17:45 CST Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (New Orleans Convention Center)
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Greg Leptoukh Lecture for the Earth and Space Science Informatics Section Presented by Julia Lowndes!
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Talk: Forking as a worldview: how Openscapes uses the open source concept of reuse-extend-credit to support researchers and shift culture in science (Invited). Julie Lowndes
event https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Session/253380 and abstract https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/2053086
Session: IN41B - Greg Leptoukh Lecture for the Earth and Space Science Informatics Section Presented by Julia Lowndes
Thursday, 18 December 2025, 08:30 - 10:00 CST La Nouvelle AB (New Orleans Convention Center)
Talk: IN44B-01 A NASA Data Steward’s Experience on Evolving Curation Practices of Airborne and Field Data (Invited) 16:15 - 16:25 CST. Point of contact: Michele Thornton.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1962773
Authors: Michele Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Scott Pearson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, Rupesh Shrestha, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Julia Stewart Lowndes, Openscapes, San Francisco, United States.
Session: IN44B - Connecting Data to Science and Discovery: Innovations and Infrastructure Bridging Disparate Observations to Drive Earth Science II Oral
Thursday, 18 December 2025, 16:15 - 17:45 CST 292 (New Orleans Convention Center)
Talk: IN44B-02 Enabling Cryo Science at Scale: How ITS_LIVE is Providing a Serverless Analysis Ready Archive of the Future (Invited) 16:25 - 16:35 CST. Point of contact: Joseph H Kennedy, Alaska Satellite Facility.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1973155
Authors: Joseph H Kennedy, Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Luis Alberto Lopez, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, Alex S Gardner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Chad Greene, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Mark A Fahnestock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, Maria Liukis, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Andrew Player, Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, United States, Mario Angarita, Alaska Satellite Facility, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States and Pete Gadomski, Development Seed, Washington, United States.
Session: IN44B - Connecting Data to Science and Discovery: Innovations and Infrastructure Bridging Disparate Observations to Drive Earth Science II Oral
Thursday, 18 December 2025, 16:15 - 17:45 CST 292 (New Orleans Convention Center)
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