INS 6: Open Data Resources During a Global Pandemic

Session Organizer(s)

• Cassandra Glaspie

  Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University
  Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Volunteer(s)

• Molly Reichenborn

  New Mexico State University

Moderator(s)

• Cassandra Glaspie

  Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University
  Baton Rouge, LA, USA

The pandemic has presented new challenges for ecological data collection in the laboratory and field. As a result, many ecologists have (re-)discovered untapped potential in existing open data resources. This Inspire session will highlight some projects that used open data, or the resources themselves and their capabilities, with speakers from a wide variety of groups at the forefront of open science. The data or science tools presented in this session need not be pandemic-related; we focus on open resources that could be useful to ecologists struggling with redefined roles and capabilities during the pandemic. The rapid-style talks in this session will explore interdisciplinary connections between ecology and areas of social science; present relatively new data resources or syntheses that may spark new ideas for research; and identify ways open data resources can be used to provide an immersive learning experience in the classroom. At the end of the session, the discussion will allow for Q&A of the speakers, and answer the following questions: What’s next for open data resources? Where do we see untapped potential in open data resources? How can open data help ecologists continue to make progress, despite the challenges of postponed field and laboratory work? This decade is the renaissance for open data resources, which provide vital connections in space, in time, and among disciplines. This session will “inspire” ecologists to use those vital connections to tackle major societal and ecological problems, even during a global pandemic.

Presentations:

• ON DEMAND

  Leveraging open resources in research reproducibility best practices
  

  Presenting Author: Amber Budden – NCEAS, University of California, Santa Barbara
• ON DEMAND

  Open data resources to the rescue: Addressing the invasive lionfish problem during a global pandemic
  

  Presenting Author: Carolyn Swize – Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University
• ON DEMAND

  Research data publishing and curation with Dryad
  

  Presenting Author: Tracy Teal – Dryad
• ON DEMAND

  Using open data to address pressing social-ecological issues
  

  Presenting Author: Rachael E. Blake – National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland
• ON DEMAND

  Using PurpleAir data to study the relationship between urban air quality and aerial fungal microbiomes
  

  Presenting Author: Ashley Sango – Biology, University of San Francisco
• ON DEMAND

  Using rOpenSci packages to access open data for ecology
  

  Presenting Author: Stefanie LaZerte – rOpenSci
• ON DEMAND

  Using SARS-CoV-2 data from NCBI in undergraduate classes
  

  Presenting Author: Naupaka Zimmerman – Biology, University of San Francisco