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EO14042 TEACHING TOPS OPENCORE BY EMBEDDING COMMUNITY VALUES.

CIENCIA ABIERTA ACCESIBLE: COMMUNITY-BASED TEACHING OF THE TOPS OPENCORE ONLINE IN SPANISH

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GEO OSE TRACK 2: PROJECT PYTHIA AND PANGEO: BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE GEOSCIENCE COMMUNITY THROUGH ACCESSIBLE, REUSABLE, AND REPRODUCIBLE WORKFLOWS -THIS PROJECT BUILDS UPON THE DEMONSTRABLE SUCCESS OF TWO COMMUNITY-DRIVEN OPEN GEOSCIENCE EFFORTS: PANGEO AND PROJECT PYTHIA. PANGEO HAS ADVANCED TRANSFORMATIVE PLATFORMS AND PARADIGMS FOR ?BIG DATA? GEOSCIENCE IN THE CLOUD; PYTHIA HAS BUILT OPEN, INTERACTIVE LEARNING RESOURCES FOR PYTHON-BASED GEOSCIENCE WORKFLOWS BUILT ON PUBLIC CLOUD DATASETS THAT ?JUST WORK? FOR USERS. THE CENTRAL GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO REDUCE BARRIERS TO SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS BY BUILDING COMMUNITY AROUND SHARED SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOW KNOWLEDGE, USING THE PYTHIA COOKBOOK FORMAT. ?COOKBOOKS? IMPLY COLLECTIONS OF RECIPES FOR TRANSFORMING RAW INGREDIENTS (PUBLICLY AVAILABLE DATA) INTO SCIENTIFICALLY USEFUL RESULTS. COOKBOOKS ARE BASED ON JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS BUT EXPLICITLY TIED TO REPRODUCIBLE COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SUPPORTED BY A RICH INFRASTRUCTURE ENABLING COLLABORATIVE AUTHORING AND AUTOMATED HEALTH-CHECKING ? ESSENTIAL TOOLS IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WIDESPREAD PROBLEM OF NOTEBOOK OBSOLESCENCE. OPEN-ACCESS, CLOUD-BASED COOKBOOKS ARE A DEMOCRATIZING FORCE FOR SCIENCE. BY GROWING THE COLLECTION OF PYTHIA COOKBOOKS WHILE GROWING THE COMMUNITY OF USERS, CONTRIBUTORS, AND MAINTAINERS, THIS PROJECT WILL GROW THE CAPACITY OF CURRENT AND FUTURE GEOSCIENTISTS TO PRACTICE OPEN SCIENCE WITHIN THE RAPIDLY EVOLVING OPEN SCIENCE ECOSYSTEM. PROJECT PYTHIA EXISTS TO HOUSE, SHARE, AND ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-QUALITY LEARNING RESOURCES FOR PYTHON-BASED COMPUTING IN THE GEOSCIENCES. THIS PROJECT WILL ADVANCE GEOSCIENCE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION BY DEVELOPING, DOCUMENTING, AND PROPAGATING BEST PRACTICES FOR HIGHLY SCALABLE REPRODUCIBLE DATA ANALYSIS IN THE CLOUD USING THE OPEN-SOURCE ECOSYSTEM. THE PYTHIA TEAM WILL DEVELOP SCIENCE-DRIVEN EXEMPLAR COOKBOOKS DEMONSTRATING HIGHLY SCALABLE VERSIONS OF COMMON ANALYSIS WORKFLOWS ON HIGH-VALUE DATASETS ACROSS NUMEROUS GEOSCIENCE DOMAINS, WITH CONTENT CHOSEN TO ACCELERATE COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND PARTICIPATION. CONTENT WILL SPAN DISCIPLINES INCLUDING ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE, PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, HYDROLOGY, GLACIOLOGY, CLIMATE SCIENCE, AND APPLICATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING. INFRASTRUCTURE WILL BE DEPLOYED FOR PERFORMANT DATA-PROXIMATE COOKBOOK AUTHORING, TESTING, AND USE, ON BOTH COMMERCIAL AND NSF-FUNDED CLOUD PLATFORMS. BOTH THE COOKBOOK COLLECTION AND THE COMMUNITY OF USER-CONTRIBUTORS WILL BROADEN AND GROW THROUGH ANNUAL WORKSHOPS, OUTREACH, AND CLASSROOM USE, WITH RECRUITMENT SPECIFICALLY TARGETING UNDER-SERVED COMMUNITIES. PRIORITIES WILL BE GUIDED BY AN INDEPENDENT STEERING BOARD; SUSTAINABILITY WILL BE ACHIEVED BY NURTURING A VIBRANT, INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY BACKED BY AUTOMATION THAT LOWERS BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 2012-18 -THIS PROJECT EXAMINES SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES DURING 2012 TO 2018, A PERIOD WITH HIGH LEVELS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT ACTIVITY. THROUGH SOCIAL MOVEMENT PARTICIPATION, STUDENTS AND CAMPUS COMMUNITY MEMBERS ENGAGE IN FREE SPEECH AND CIVIL LIFE, DEVELOP THEIR IDENTITIES AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS, AND INFLUENCE UNIVERSITY POLICIES AND PRACTICES. THIS STUDY INVESTIGATES: 1) THE FACTORS THAT ENCOURAGE HIGHER EDUCATION SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THEIR SPREAD ACROSS CAMPUSES AND COUNTRIES; AND 2) THE STRATEGIES AND RHETORIC THAT UNIVERSITIES USE TO RESPOND. THE PROJECT CONTRIBUTES TO THE SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, ORGANIZATIONS, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND SOCIAL MEDIA. EXPLANATIONS OF MOVEMENT ACTIVISM AND UNIVERSITY RESPONSES INFORM HOW CAMPUS COMMUNITIES MAY WORK MORE EFFECTIVELY TO MAKE UNIVERSITIES INCLUSIVE AND SUPPORTIVE OF EXPRESSION. BENEFICIARIES INCLUDE STUDENTS, STAFF, AND UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS. TO UNDERSTAND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE 2010S, THIS PROJECT CONSTRUCTS AN INNOVATIVE QUANTITATIVE DATASET THAT DOCUMENTS HIGHER EDUCATION SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIONS? RESPONSES. USING MACHINE LEARNING AND HAND-CODING, RESEARCHERS DRAW FROM MORE THAN 16,000 NEWS ARTICLES FROM 550 DIFFERENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERS ACROSS TWO COUNTRIES. RESEARCHERS RECONCILE DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS OF THE SAME SOCIAL MOVEMENT. DATA ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ARE MERGED WITH SECONDARY DATASETS ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS, OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS, AND SOCIAL MEDIA. THE DATASET IS MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE THAT ILLUSTRATES AND MAPS SOCIAL MOVEMENT PATTERNS. A NEW OPEN-SOURCE BROWSER-BASED TOOL FOR RECONCILING DIFFERENCES ACROSS SOURCES IMPROVES THE ABILITY OF RESEARCHERS TO COLLECT AND USE HIGH QUALITY SOCIAL MOVEMENT EVENT DATA. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

EAGER: INVESTIGATING REASONABLE COSTS TO ACHIEVE PUBLIC ACCESS TO FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC DATA -THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE COSTS INVOLVED IN PUBLISHING RESEARCH OUTPUTS IN A RANGE OF PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE VENUES. USING A MIXED RESEARCH MODEL, THE PROJECT WILL PRODUCE INSIGHTS, TOOLS, AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES TO HIGHLIGHT AND MITIGATE CURRENT DISPARITIES BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS AND RESEARCHERS IN DIFFERENT RESEARCH TIERS AND INSTITUTION TYPES. NATIONAL ADOPTION OF OPEN SCIENCE PRACTICES AIMS TO ENSURE ALL THAT ALL CITIZENS BENEFIT FROM IMMEDIATE AND FREE ACCESS TO FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH. HOWEVER, EVEN WHEN THOSE DIGITAL RESEARCH OUTPUTS ARE FREE FOR USERS, THEIR PUBLICATION AND MANAGEMENT ARE NOT ?FREE.? THIS RAISES SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS REGARDING WHO SHOULD PAY FOR THESE PROCESSES AND HOW MUCH. AS RESEARCHERS, RESEARCH OFFICES, SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES, PUBLISHERS, LIBRARIES, AND VARIOUS DATA MANAGEMENT AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS ACTIVELY GRAPPLE WITH EMERGING POLICY CHANGES, THIS RESEARCH WILL ADDRESS KEY QUESTIONS: 1) WHAT ARE THE COSTS OF PUBLISHING PUBLICLY AVAILABLE RESEARCH, AND HOW DO THESE DIFFER ACROSS PUBLICATION TYPES, INSTITUTION TYPES, AND DISCIPLINES; 2) WHAT DO US RESEARCHERS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS PAY DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY (E.G., THROUGH TRANSFORMATIVE AGREEMENTS) TO MAKE FEDERALLY FUNDED OUTPUTS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE; 3) WHAT WORKFLOWS AND DECISION CHAINS DO RESEARCHERS AND THEIR RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS USE TO SECURE APPROPRIATE PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNELS FOR RESEARCH OUTPUTS; AND 4) HOW DO RESEARCHERS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS CURRENTLY ESTABLISH A THRESHOLD FOR REASONABLE COST FOR PUBLICLY AVAILABLE VENUES, AND DO THEY BUDGET THIS AS ALLOWABLE EXPENSE? AS THIS RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED, THE PROJECT WILL ESPECIALLY LOOK FOR DIFFERENCES IN BOTH THOUGHT AND ACTION ACROSS INSTITUTIONAL TYPES AND TIERS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

REPRODUCIBLY ANALYZING WILDFIRE DROUGHT AND FLOOD RISK WITH NASA EARTH DATA CLOUD

EPHEMERAL INTERACTIVE COMPUTING FOR NASA COMMUNITIES