Hi, I’m Ileana Fenwick
Community Ecologist and Data Scientist
Pathways to Open Science Lead and PI
NSF Graduate Research Fellow and PhD Candidate
HBCU Alum - Hampton University ‘20
Hampton University alums at the first BWEEMS conference in Miami, FL in 2023!
Openscapes and the open science movement
We believe open science can accelerate data-driven solutions and increase diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in research and beyond.
We champion open data science: the tooling and people enabling reproducible, transparent, inclusive practices for data-intensive research.
Ileana Fenwick, Openscapes, U North Carolina Chapel Hill
Julia Stewart Lowndes PhD, Openscapes
and the Openscapes community
Pathways to Open Science, January 23, 2025
Artwork by Allison Horst
Slides: openscapes.org/media | openscapes.org
Open Science
Global movement happening all across science
A fundamental change in how science is done towards practices and workflows that promote reproducibility, transparency, sharing and collaboration and useability of scientific innovation.
What Openscapes brings
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Openscapes is an open source approach & movement shifting culture by helping people find each other & collaboratively evolve their work with modern & kind open science workflows. >1000 people involved, from academia, government, open source, beyond.
Kinder science for future us
What Openscapes brings
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What Openscapes brings
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Openscapes approach supports change
Awesome teams lead change in many interwoven ways
Organizations want to make change
Invest in learning & trust
Create space & place
Work openly
Welcome
Fork common workflows, skills, tools, ideas
Inspire
Organizations want to make change
Data & workforce modernization
Since 2024, co-led with Eli Holmes (NOAA Fisheries)
Supporting users with data cloud migration
Since 2021, Co-led with Erin Robinson (Metadata Game Changers) nasa-openscapes.github.io
“Why aren’t there more Black folks in open science?”
Since 2022, co-led with Ileana Fenwick, BIMS & BWEEMS
openscapes.github.io/ pathways-to-open-science
“How do I improve how my group collaborates with data & reports?”
Since 2019, 27 Cohorts, incl. EPA, Fred Hutch openscapes.org/initiatives
Big questions. Empowering that they can be approached with similar solutions: community
Organizations want to make change
What big questions do you have?
How can our supportive, inclusive, and innovative community help you answer it?
“Why aren’t there more Black folks in open science?”
Since 2022, co-led with Ileana Fenwick, BIMS & BWEEMS
openscapes.github.io/ pathways-to-open-science
Big questions. Empowering that they can be approached with similar solutions: community
Openscapes community recognized by the
Biden-Harris White House
“Movement building for kinder open science for future us: Effort at NOAA Fisheries, NASA, & EPA”
Ileana Fenwick & Julie Lowndes representing Openscapes community
September 19, 2024
openscapes.org/blog/2024-10-03-openscapes-recognized-white-house
Organizations want to make change
What big questions do you have?
How can our supportive, inclusive, and innovative community help you answer it?
“Why aren’t there more Black folks in open science?”
Since 2022, co-led with Ileana Fenwick, BIMS & BWEEMS
openscapes.github.io/ pathways-to-open-science
Big questions. Empowering that they can be approached with similar solutions: community
Some of the Openscapes community!
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