NMFS Openscapes Mentor Community
The NMFS Openscapes Mentor program supports local Open Science leaders within the NOAA Fisheries offices (science centers, regional offices and headquarters). The program provides leadership, coaching, and skill-building training to help mentors become better local leaders and to support their Open Science goals for the coming year. In addition, the program helps mentors network across NOAA Fisheries with others with similar goals and with the Openscapes community at other federal agencies.
The program helps mentors carve out time to make steady progress on their goals and to support their learning journeys. Mentors meet each week to move their own work forward together through Mentor Calls and Coworking sessions. What’s your big goal or project that can get off the ground or make happen together? What are you trying to make a success? Do you see a roadblock that shouldn’t be? Working together, mentors have been able to realize organization change goals—such as delivering workshops, getting new training, developing NMFS-wide resources like GitHub Enterprise, documenting Google Cloud Workstations, and building healthy team cultures.
The mentors are also local representatives for NOAA Fisheries Open Science, including Open Data, Open Source and Open Collaboration. According to their interest and capacity, they help design and promote in the Openscapes fall Champions cohorts, spearhead communication with with their local leadership, act as a point-person for interested local staff, help identify local needs, and help communicate, or potentially organize, teaching resources for their local staff. The mentor group is modeled after the NASA Openscapes Framework approach.
Participation is year-long and includes a cycle of activities. Jan-May is focused on the mentors: they define their goals and activities, participate in skill-building training alongside mentors from across Openscapes communities, and engage in active work on actualizing their goals. In late summer, mentors help plan the fall Champions cohorts (120 staff across the agency) which run Oct-Dec. Mentors do not meet as a group Oct-Dec. Those who want to participate in the Champions cohorts will do so while others will work on their goals independently.
Activities
See our current and previous activities!
Co-leads:
- Julie Lowndes and Stefanie Butland (Openscapes)
- Eli Holmes (NMFS Open Science)
Mentors
FY25 Mentors
AFSC
Brian Fadely
Josh London
Em Markowitz
Megsie Siple
NEFSC
Dan Pendleton
NWFSC
Eli Holmes
Jonathan Peake
Brooke Hawkins
Hem Nalini Mozaria-Luna
Erin Steiner
Loren Stearman
Dawn URycki
OST
Elizabeth Perl
Kathryn Doering
Sophie Breitbart
PIFSC
Yvonne Barkley
Amanda Bradford
Jon Brodziak
Devin Johnson
Jennifer McCullough
Eva Schemmel
Marylou Staman
Phoebe Woodworth-Jefcoats
SEFSC
Carissa Gervasi
Matt Grossi
Adyan Rios
Molly Stevens
Ana Vaz
SWFSC
Alice Beittel
Kourtney Burger
Lynn deWitt
Shannon Rankin
Kevin Stierhoff
FY24 Mentors
AFSC
Anna Abelman
Jennifer Bigman
Millie Brower
Brian Fadely
Craig Faunce
Shannon Hennessey
Kristin Holsman
Stacie Koslovsky
Josh London
Em Markowitz
Tony Orr
Jonathan Richar
Erin Richmond
Megsie Siple
Rod Towell
Ben Williams
Nancy Young
AKRO
Craig Millard
NEFSC
Laura Gruenburg
Andrew Jones
Julie Rose
NWFSC
Monica Diaz
Eli Holmes
Hem Nalini Mozaria-Luna
Erin Steiner
Nick Tolimieri
Eric Ward
Greg Williams
OST
Kathryn Doering
Elizabeth Perl
Christine Stawitz
PIFSC
Yvonne Barkley
Amanda Bradford
Jon Brodziak
Devin Johnson
Lori Luers
Michael Marsik
Meg Oshima
Eva Schemmel
Juliette Verstaen
Phoebe Woodworth-Jefcoats
SEFSC
Matt Grossi
Adyan Rios
Molly Stevens
Ana Vaz
Lee Weinberger
SWFSC
Lynn deWitt
Carissa Gervasi
Dale Robinson
Kevin Stierhoff
SWFSC/PIFSC
Sunny Hospital
FY23 Mentors
AFSC
Josh London
Em Markowitz
Megsie Siple
AKRO
Craig Millard
NEFSC
Andrew Jones
Scott Large
NWFSC
Eli Holmes
Erin Steiner
Eric Ward
OST
Kathryn Doering
Elizabeth Perl
Christine Stawitz
PIFSC
Amanda Bradford
Juliette Verstaen
SEFSC
Adyan Rios
Molly Stevens
SWFSC
Kevin Stierhoff