Open Environmental Data Project

We are thrilled to announce that Brittany Janis, CFRE will be Open Environmental Data Project’s new Executive Director! Prior to joining OEDP, Brittany served as the Associate Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP) at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In this role, she led multidisciplinary research initiatives on the green transition, energy technology, and climate resilience, while building strategic partnerships across academia, government, and civil society. Before her work with ENRP and STPP, Brittany was the Associate Director of the Arctic Initiative at the Belfer Center, where she led a team that examined how climate-driven transformations in the Arctic were impacting people both inside and outside of the region. In selecting the new Executive Director, the OEDP Board, composed of Karien Bezuidenhout, Natasha U., and Christa Hasenkopf, sought a candidate with a robust blend of organizational expertise and a deep passion for environmental justice. Brittany embodies these qualities and more, and will both contribute to and grow with our team. We hope you’ll join us in welcoming Brittany to OEDP beginning September 30, and that you share our enthusiasm for this exciting new chapter at OEDP!

We’re hosting a Beyond Compliance Network workshop from October 21-22 in Philadelphia where you can collaborate to identify promising solutions to shared challenges and strategize on action-oriented next steps. Join us for office hours TODAY 9/10 to learn more about this convening and see if you'd like to join! The Beyond Compliance Network facilitates the (re-)design of environmental data systems to strengthen data’s application in environmental governance, acting collectively to make our data and infrastructure more open, accessible, and interoperable. Our goals are to open up regulatory data and processes that integrate this data to enable its broader use in answering environmental health questions, and to facilitate the integration of community-level and other kinds of research data in this process. https://lnkd.in/gZcPfkzy

Meet Sebastián Zárate, one of the 2024 SEEKCommons Fellows! Sebastián is an interdisciplinary social scientist who draws upon the field of science and technology studies (STS) to explore the governance of crop data and the implications of emerging technologies in the Andes. Sebastián's project, “Unpacking Citizen Science Data Platforms for Andean Potato Agrobiodiversity Conservation” will explore current and potential challenges of data platforms for potato biodiversity conservation, addressing issues related to data justice, digital literacy and long-term adoption. Sebastián is mentored by SEEKCommons Team Member Lane Rasberry and SEEKCommons RCN member Daniela Soleri. #seekcommonsfellows #seekcommons #openscience #opendata #collaboration #citizenscience #biodiversity #potato #crops #peru #cusco #cuscoperu

Reminder: WE'RE HIRING! Priority applications for the Civic Science Fellow and Data Inclusion Specialist are due THIS SUNDAY 9/8! Applications for the Data Stewardship Intern are due 9/18! 🏃🏻♀️ 💻 🎇 ➡

We've officially wrapped up our Community Data Hubs workshops! Check out our most recent blog which documents the workshop process, from planning to design to debrief 💫 https://lnkd.in/dTSpjaEZ Big shout out to our community partners for their thoughtful engagement through these workshops, facilitated by OEDP's Emelia Williams and Kate Wing of Intertidal Agency: 🌟 Gwendylon Smith from CHARRS and Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, Ph.D., MPH from West Atlanta Watershed Alliance (WAWA), 🌟 Guillermina Actis from CENIT / FARN, and 🌟 Emily McCague, MPH, CHES from Self-Help Enterprises! #workshop #data #OpenData #DataStewardship #values #TermsAndConditions #DataSharingAgreement #DataSharing

📚 Our September What We're Reading List is now live on our website! 📚 The Ripple Effect by Emmett FitzGerald for 99% Invisible 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dyK_ZZhK "How a US health agency became a shield for polluters" by Jaimi Dowdell, M.B. Pell, Benjamin Lesser, Michelle Conlin, Phoebe Quinton and Waylon Cunningham for Reuters 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g8yQtygB The Environment & Sustainability Playbook by Aapti Institute 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dHYdchyw Action Alerts from Earthjustice on CA #SB674 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gkdS4cWD "Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science" by Julia Stewart Lowndes, Anna M. Holder, Emily Markowitz, Corey Clatterbuck, Amanda L. Bradford, et. al. for Ecology and Evolution 🔗 https://lnkd.in/djj8v3g5 "The sphere of exposure: Centering user experience in community science air monitoring" by Marisa Westbrook, Valentina Serrano Salomón, Jay Pecenka, Aniya K. Hollo, Shelly L. Miller, and Esther Sullivan for Frontiers 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dDW26nUb "Biden team wades into open source AI controversy" by Ina Fried for Axios 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dCmxFS-H To see our full reading list, head on over to https://lnkd.in/dJsZWNRw #ReadingList #RecommendedReading #OpenSource #AI #Ecology #Evolution #CommunityScience #AirMonitoring #AQ #UX #environment #sustainability #oil #OilRefineries #infrastructure #OpenData #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateChange #DataGovernance #ArtificialIntelligence #ClimateCrisis

What does the recent Supreme Court decision about the Chevron Deference mean for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and open data policies more broadly? 💻 We explore that question and more in our most recent explainer video, created by Communications Fellow Karen Yang! https://lnkd.in/gvpPZrqu #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Chevron #ChevronDeference #EnvironmentalPolicy #EnvironmentalLaw #OpenData #OpenScience

📣 We're hiring for two positions! 📣 🏛 Civic Science Fellow & Data Inclusion Specialist 🏛 This position will work on our research, pilot, and network-building initiatives around open data and environmental data governance. They will build on opportunities identified by OEDP team members to conduct and synthesize research, design and test prototypes and tools, and organize workshops and other convenings to support data literacy, sharing, and usability in environmental governance spaces. Until March 2025, the Data Inclusion Specialist will participate in the Civic Science Fellows program. As a Fellow of the program, you’ll be part of a cohort positioned across different scientific associations, organizations, and institutions, providing you with a peer learning group focused on a variety of scientific and societal challenges. Priority applications due September 8. 💽 Data Stewardship Intern 💽 This position will be responsible for researching and translating environmental data stewardship concepts and topics for our audience of community environmental data users. They will also support the strategic development of the website that will host the Library materials. Priority applications are due September 18. The full position description for both positions can be found at: https://lnkd.in/ebdWhDaE. Please feel free to email [email protected] with questions. #Hiring #JobOpportunity #OpenData #Intern #Internship #Fellow #Data #Policy #Library

The California State Assembly + State Senate recently passed #SB674, providing #data transparency for frontline communities near #OilRefineries. Gov. Gavin Newsom now needs to sign the bill into law. Earthjustice made an easy-to-use template so you can reach out to show your support of this bill, which will improve protections for #EnvironmentalJustice communities ⬇ https://lnkd.in/gkdS4cWD

On this season of Data Dialogues, we're exploring the intersections of the open and climate movements. Each episode, hosted by Madhuri Karak, Ph.D., features an interview with a practitioner who is using an open tool or open approach to tackle a climate problem. Whether on local or global scales, these stories highlight why open in all its forms—open science, open source, open data—is key for climate action. The second batch of episodes from Data Dialogues S3: The Open Climate Edition is now live on all podcasting platforms! 4) The One Stop Shop for #AirQuality #Data A warming planet makes smog worse; it leads to more frequent and severe wildfires, which release dangerous particulate matter. Any meaningful intervention to improve air quality requires data, but finding accurate air quality data—usable by researchers, community members and policy makers alike—is incredibly difficult. In this episode, Madhuri Karak speaks with Colleen Marciel Rosales, Ph.D. and Chris Hagerbaumer of OpenAQ Inc about their efforts to harmonize and standardize air quality data. 5) Strategic Observations for #ClimateIntervention in the #GulfCoast What does it mean to take back knowledge and data about our environments, from the hands of those who monopolize this knowledge for centuries, and use that knowledge to extract value from land and people alike? In this episode, Madhuri Karak speaks with Scott Eustis, the community science director at Healthy Gulf, about what taking back ownership of knowledge and data about our landscapes, our bodies, looks like in the Gulf Coast of the US. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eEtXcs_u #OpenData #FollowTheOil #HealthyGulf #FixTheCoast #OpenScience #OpenHardware #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #ClimatePodcast #EnvironmentalPodcast #OpenClimate #ClimateScience #ClimateCrisis #KnowledgeManagement #Landscapes #WildfireIntervention #AirQualityData #EnvironmentalMonitoring #AirMonitoring #AirPollution #AirSensors