F.14 TOPST Individuals or Organizations that are looking to team!

[cgentemann]

Hello! This is a discussion thread to collect organizations that have expressed an interest in teaming with other organizations on TOPST proposals. This is not a list of organizations who are capable of teaming but is simply a list of those organizations that respond to this discussion. Proposing organizations are not required to team with any organization that posts to this thread. NASA does not endorse any of these organizations and does not accept responsibility for their capabilities or actions.

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If you would like to include your Organization and name on the TOPST Teaming Interest discussion thread, please respond here. We suggest you include:
Name:
Organization:
Email:
Your expertise:
Any other info (what you are looking for?):

[jmunroe]

Great idea to assist in forming potential teams!

Name: James Munroe
Organization: 2i2c
Email: jmunroe@2i2c.org
Your expertise: Open Research Cloud Infrastructure - 2i2c designs, develops, and operates JupyterHubs in the cloud for communities of practice in research & education. It builds and supports open source infrastructure that serves these communities.
Any other info (what you are looking for?): 1. We are exploring developing a new ScienceCore module with focus on Interactive, Colloborative Computing in the Cloud focused on a earth/climate science subdomain and/or 2. hosting/running/organizing a virtual cohort that covers the OpenCore and ScienceCore curriculum adapted to use and showcase doing open science on a 2i2c managed JupyterHub. These would need to be two separate proposals and I am interested in forming partnerships for one or both ideas.

[7yl4r]

I am open to any ideas, but as of today I intend to lead a proposal to create ScienceCore materials in the areas related to oceanographic biodiversity assessment and remote sensing. I have much existing content to draw from via my work with USF, MBON, and elsewhere.

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Name	Tylar Murray
Organization	IMaRS @ University of S FL
Email	email@tylar.info
Your expertise	Software Engineering, Data Science, UX

I am looking for collaborators with experience in the aforementioned research domain and who have a basic working knowledge of python.

[lisalenorelowe]

Hi Tylar,

I didn't see these discussions until right now, but our TOPST proposal was funded and we are in the neighborhood of your research domain. Let's keep in touch!

I am (also just right now) starting to put up some of our materials. Not much to see yet, but we have a webpage with info and a link to our Proposal Summary.

Best,
Lisa

[7yl4r]

Congrats, Lisa! My proposal did not get funded. Please keep me updated via email (murray.tylar@gmail.com) on your project so I can keep an eye out for ways to help.

[anafinovas]

Name: Saule Anafinova
Organization: ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary, PhD candidate
Email: saule.anafinova@ppk.elte.hu; saule.anafinova@gmail.com
Your expertise: volunteer in several Open Science initiatives (e. g. RepliCATS); led offline and online courses; supported international cooperation meetings; research writing (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4466-3426)
Any other info (what you are looking for?): I am looking for ways to promote Open Science in Central Asian universities. I would be happy to connect Central Asian higher education community, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan with the Open Science movement. I am looking for ideas on the best ways to promote this and for partners. I have contacts with several Central Asian universities, and academic community in CA.

[kgiori]

Hi Saule! I just returned from the TechWomen 2023 delegation trip to Kazakhstan -- it was awesome! And before the official trip I also visited and provided physical computing workshops in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. I would love to collaborate to improve open science in Central Asia. I'm an electrical engineer and therefore don't have depth in a particular science domain, but I can help with hardware/software tools that will improve our understanding. These days programmable microcontrollers with various sensors can offer very low-cost platforms for instrumenting our world. These tools should improve scientific research and data collection. I am available to provide education/guidance/training/advice on hardware, plus how to use MicroBlocks to program the hardware. MicroBlocks is a human-friendly software tool (open source non-profit) for creating your own hands-on instruments/experiments.

[kgiori]

Name: Kathy Giori
Organization: MicroBlocks
Email: kathy.giori@gmail.com
Your expertise: I'm an electrical engineer and therefore don't have depth in a particular science domain, but I can help with hardware/software tools that will improve our understanding. These days programmable microcontrollers with various sensors can offer very low-cost platforms for instrumenting our world. These tools should improve scientific research and data collection. I am available to provide education/guidance/training/advice on hardware, plus how to use MicroBlocks to program the hardware. MicroBlocks is a human-friendly software tool (open source non-profit) for creating your own hands-on instruments/experiments.

[PaigeDAO]

Paige Donner
IoT Logistics, LLC - WOSB & current NASA subcontractor
FrontierDAO - an on-chain community for collectively furthering blockchain tooling as infrastructure to support the implementation of Open Science
Email: paigedonner@gmail.com

I am working at the intersection of Open Science and the blockchain as a tooling mechanism for implementation. I believe that distributed ledger technology offers tools that will allow us to build the necessary infrastructure, capacity building and incentives that will allow for Open Science policies to actually be implemented on a grand scale. As such, I have spent the past 1 1/2 years working on a research software build called Frontier Registry. I am also a named subcontractor on a MUREP STEM inclusion award for an MSI.

So am keen to facilitate educational interaction between those students (high school, community college and undergrads) and the open science community to foster learning and best practices as they begin their STEM careers.