Presentations, Publications and Media

Presentations

A Year of Open Science Community Building at NOAA Fisheries Eli Holmes (NOAA Fisheries Open Science), Evan Howell (Director of the Office of Science and Technology), Megsie Siple (Alaska Fisheries Science Center), Amanda Bradford (Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center), Brian Fadely (Alaska Fisheries Science Center Marine Mammal Stock Assessments), Vivian Matter (Branch Chief of Southeast Fisheries Science Center), Kathryn Doering (Office of Science and Technology), Christine Stawitz (Office of Science and Technology), Carissa Geravsi (Gulf of Mexico Integrated Ecosystem Assessment), Lynn Dewitt (California Current Ecosystem Assessment Team). Year of Open Science Culminating Conference, March 21, 2024.

NOAA Fisheries Data Vision Open Data and Open Science Eli Holmes (NOAA Fisheries Open Science), Karen Sender (NOAA Fisheries Acting Assistant Chief Data Officer), Elizabeth Gugliotti (NOAA Fisheries Stock Synthesis Software Support), Melissa Yencho (NOAA Fisheries Chief of Staff, Office of Science and Tech) presented during the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) 2023 Summer Meeting about the draft 2023 NOAA Fisheries Data Strategy, a multi-year plan for organization change towards Open Data and Open Science that defines the technology, processes, people, principles, policies, and best practices that are foundational to providing quality information and data to meet NOAA Fisheries’ mission priorities and “elevate data to the stature of publications”. July 19, 2023 (slides).

Quarto workflow for collaborating on government reports Eli Holmes (NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center) presented during the SEFSC Openscapes Champions Cohort about how a team might collaborate on a Quarto report using GitHub and RStudio (+ Zotero for citations). Aug 11, 2022. Another version of the talk focused on the Quarto structure and A shorter version just on the collaboration part

Openscapes approach to helping organizations transition to Open Science workflows and new tools Presented to the High-level Group for the Modernisation of Statistical Production & Services (HLG-MOS), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). May 4, 2022: Lowndes and Holmes.

Open Science Adoption with Organizations: Lessons for individuals from theories about technology adoption Dr. Eli Holmes gave a talk on using theory concerning technology adoption to help plan activities for the Year of Open Science. ESIP Panel on “Better Science for Future Us: Planning for the Year of Open Science” organized by Erin Robinson and Julie Lowndes. January 18-21, 2022.

VRData R Package Dr. Eli Holmes (NWFSC) describes and screenshares her team’s open science practices (GitHub, R) that increase efficiency, quality control, and transparency for Pacific Northwest Salmonid Viability Reports. December 1, 2021.

Data to Product Workflows Em Markowitz (NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center) presented during the NMFS Openscapes Champions Cohort about her R package for automating reports for NOAA with RMarkdown. October 1, 2021.

State of the Ecosystem Product Development Workflow Kim Bastille (NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center) presented during the FDD Openscapes Champions Cohort about the reproducible workflow used by the State Of the Ecosystem report.

Presentations for NMFS Leadership

SEFSC Leadership, Lowndes, Rios, Stevens. Sept 14, 2023.

NOAA IEA Face-to-Face, Lowndes. May 2, 2023. NCEAS, UCSB.

NWFSC Leadership, Holmes, Williams, Scalliet. January 4, 2023.

NMFS Science Board, Holmes, Lowndes. June 8, 2022.

SEFSC Leadership, Holmes, Rios, Rule, Lowndes. March 31, 2022.

NWFSC Leadership, Holmes, Ward, Scalliet, Lowndes. February 14, 2022.

Cross-government Openscapes presentations

Here are some recent talks highlighting NOAA Fisheries work alongside other Openscapes collaborators.

Publications

Julia Stewart Lowndes, Anna M. Holder, Emily H. Markowitz, Corey Clatterbuck, Amanda L. Bradford, Kathryn Doering, Molly H. Stevens, Stefanie Butland, Devan Burke, Sean Kross, Jeffrey W. Hollister, Christine Stawitz, Margaret C. Siple, Adyan Rios, Jessica Nicole Welch, Bai Li, Farnaz Nojavan, Alexandra Davis, Erin Steiner, Josh M. London, Ileana Fenwick, Alexis Hunzinger, Juliette Verstaen, Elizabeth Holmes, Makhan Virdi, Andrew P. Barrett, Erin Robinson (2024). Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11341.

Bastille, Kimberly, Sean Hardison, Lynn deWitt, Jennifer Brown, Jameal Samhouri, Sarah Gaichas, Sean Lucey, et al. 2021. “Improving the IEA Approach Using Principles of Open Data Science.” Coastal Management 49 (1): 72–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2021.1846155.

Blog Posts

IMPACTS OF OPENSCAPES TRAINING ON OPEN SCIENCE MOVEMENT BUILDING INSIDE NOAA’S ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER - February 16, 2023: EMILY MARKOWITZ, MARGARET SIPLE, JOSH LONDON

NATIONWIDE OPENSCAPES TRAINING AT NOAA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTERS: FACILITATING COLLABORATION, SKILL-SHARING, AND OPEN SCIENCE - January 24, 2023: MOLLY STEVENS, ADYAN RIOS, AMANDA BRADFORD, KEVIN STIERHOFF, JULIETTE VERSTAEN, ELI HOLMES, EMILY MARKOWITZ, MARGARET SIPLE, JOSH LONDON, AND 150 NOAA FISHERIES OPENSCAPES CHAMPIONS

Sound Bytes: Championing Open Science - December 7, 2022: Burger. (cross-posted at Openscapes.org)

Aligning mission around collaborative practices, with researchers, supervisors, and IT - September 30, 2022: Rios, Stevens, Rule.

AFSC Winter Cohort Report - April 7, 2022: Markowitz, London, Siple.

3 Takeways for planning for the year of Open Science - February 17, 2022: Friesz, Fenwick, Holmes, Holder, Steiker, Robinson, Lowndes

Identifying common approaches and needs for fisheries dependent data - November 12, 2021: Fay, Jones, Holder and Lowndes

Strengthening scientific workflow and team collaboration at NOAA Fisheries - November 12, 2021: Holmes, Ward, Scalliet, Clatterbuck and Lowndes

YouTube

Quarto for collaborating on large government science reports by Eli Holmes (NOAA Fisheries) - August 11, 2022: Holmes

NMFSReports R package Overview by Em Markowitz - October 2021: Markowitz