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Member Since 2021
Julia Stewart Lowndes
Founding director and core team member, Openscapes
Member, Informatics Leptoukh Lecture Award Committee; Member, Open Science and Impact Honors Committee
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Professional Experience
Openscapes
Founding director and core team member
2018 - Present
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Senior Fellow
2013 - 2024
Education
Stanford University
Doctorate
2012
University of California Los Angeles
Bachelors
2005
Julia's AGU Research
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A NASA Data Steward’s Experience on Evolving Curation Practices of Airborne and Field Data
CONNECTING DATA TO SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY: INNOVATIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE BRIDGING DISPARATE OBSERVATIONS TO DRIVE EARTH SCIENCE II ORAL
informatics | 18 december 2025
Forking as a worldview: how Openscapes uses the open source concept of reuse-extend-credit to support researchers and shift culture in science
GREG LEPTOUKH LECTURE FOR THE EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE INFORMATICS SECTION PRESENTED BY JULIA LOWNDES
informatics | 18 december 2025
Virtual dataset integration into earthaccess: Community contributions to enable Earth science at scale
OPEN-SOURCE GEOSPATIAL WORKFLOWS IN THE CLOUD: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR DATA ACCESS, ANALYSIS, VISUALIZATION, STORYTELLING, AND SHARING IN THE PYTHON AND JUPYTER ECOSYSTEM II ORAL
informatics | 16 december 2025
The extensible social infrastructure enabling NASA Earthdata science in the cloud
OPEN-SOURCE GEOSPATIAL WORKFLOWS IN THE CLOUD: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR DATA ACCESS, ANALYSIS, VISUALIZATION, STORYTELLING, AND SHARING IN THE PYTHON AND JUPYTER ECOSYSTEM II ORAL
informatics | 16 december 2025
Showing up at other people's parties: interoperable communities building robust science infrastructure for data stewardship and cloud workflows
ADVANCING PATHWAYS TO INCLUSIVE, TRANSPARENT, AND GLOBALLY ENGAGED GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION I ORAL
education | 15 december 2025
Cultivating open and collaborative data science at a U.S. EPA research center
REFLECTIONS ON OPEN SCIENCE: SHARING STORIES, PROGRESS, AND LESSONS LEARNED II ORAL
education | 13 december 2024
Supporting NASA Earthdata users in the Cloud: NASA Openscapes JupyterHub and User Onboarding & Fledging
ACCELERATING SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION THROUGH CLOUD COMPUTING HUBS AND TOOLS II POSTER
union sessions | 09 december 2024
Including more solutions and more solvers via actionable open science
FLOURISHING SCIENCE COMMONS: DATA SCIENCE, OPEN SCIENCE, AND KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITIES POSTER
informatics | 09 december 2024
Volunteer Experience
2026 - 2030
Member
Informatics Leptoukh Lecture Award Committee
2026 - 2027
Member
Open Science and Impact Honors Committee
Honors & Awards
Greg Leptoukh Lecture
Received December 2025