Community Building for Data Sharing and Open Science within the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences

Open Science is transformative, removing barriers to sharing science and increasing reproducibility and transparency. The benefits of Open Science are maximized when its principles are incorporated throughout the research process, through working collaboratively with community members and sharing data, software, workflows, samples, and other aspects of scientific research as FAIRly and openly as possible. However, the paths toward Open Science are not always apparent. Developing Open Science skills is an ongoing practice, and while these skills enhance outcomes for individual researchers as well as the broader community, there are many concepts, approaches, and tools to learn along the way.

How can we break down the barriers confronting researchers in their Open Science journey? How can we develop and support necessary infrastructure to reuse, distribute, and reproduce the outputs of scientific research? How do we create a culture where having better tools, practices, and methods helps us achieve this goal? 

We will share work by AGU, our collaborators, and the broader community to support researchers in the Open Science journey, build groups to share resources, leading practices, and experiences, and help develop networks of support across the Earth, space, and environmental science community at all levels, to better support the culture of the future.