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earthaccess: Five Years of Open Source Science Leadership at NASA
Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
RH 4.308
Collaborative Notes
earthaccess is a powerful model for open-source tool sustainability and user-driven development: widely used not only because it solves real user problems, but because it has been intentionally developed openly and amplified via storytelling. This session shares several short stories and includes an open mic: what earthaccess is and its current impact; how the community works via hackdays (ESIP FUNding Friday followup!); open governance (JOSS publication, move to earthaccess-dev); current focus on virtualizing and AI-preparation; untold enabling stories; and an open mic for attendees to share their own earthaccess experiences and contributions.

Audience
Anyone who wants to become part of the earthaccess story, get involved as contributors (users are contributors!), or learn about the python library and open science infrastructure
Speakers
avatar for Julia Lowndes

Julia Lowndes

Director, Openscapes
Dr. Julia Stewart Lowndes is Openscapes founding director and co-leads NASA Openscapes and NOAA Fisheries Openscapes projects. I am a marine ecologist working at the intersection of actionable science, data science, and open science. My main focus is mentoring teams to develop technical... Read More →
avatar for Luis Lopez

Luis Lopez

Research Software Engineer, NSIDC
Luis Lopez is a Research Software Engineer at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado. He is a passionate advocate of open science and has contributed to open source projects such as Apache Nutch, PyLDAVis, earthaccess and virtualizarr.
avatar for Amy Steiker

Amy Steiker

DAAC Tools and Services Manager, National Snow and Ice Data Center
avatar for Ian Carroll

Ian Carroll

Associate Research Scientist, NASA/GSFC, UMBC
Dr. Ian Carroll is an Associate Research Scientist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on phytoplankton community ecology and data science. Phytoplankton are a diverse collection of photosynthetic organisms, found in all water... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Kaufman

Daniel Kaufman

TEMPO Lead Data Scientist, NASA ASDC / Booz Allen Hamilton
JR

Justin Rice

NASA/ESDIS, NASA/ESDIS

Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
RH 4.308
  Cloud-Native & Data Infrastructure

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