Advancing Open Science Greenhouse Gas Emission Data Analysis Using the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center’s Jupyter Hub

An Interactive Workshop on the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center and VEDA Tools for use in Earth Science Research

📅 Dec 08, 2024, 🕣 01:00 PM - 04:30 PM EST, 📍 Capitol/Congress (Marriott Marquis)

🔗 Session on the AGU Website

Description

This half-day workshop will provide hands-on practice to efficiently use the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center (US GHG Center) portal key datasets, open-source tools, and computing resources for exploring, visualizing, analyzing and communicating science related to greenhouse gases.

The US GHG Center was created to provide curated, trusted greenhouse gas data and information via a user interface, QGIS or cloud computing environment to make it easier to access, use and understand data from one centralized location regardless of data producer or data storage location. The GHG Center portal provides cloud optimized access to a growing set of federal and non-federal data. The contents reflect transparency in both data and methods, to address different end user needs and to bring together actionable information from multiple sources.

Workshop activities encompass exploration of several science questions and activities using the US GHG Center services and tools. Participants will learn from GHG specialists about the latest science or policies that can be identified in the data for a given region or location. Attendees will produce trends over time, visually compare data from selected times, utilize code notebooks to compare datasets and develop detailed figures and comparison charts and to summarize and share results. Example python code will be provided so that users can gain practice at using and adapting the open code and focus more on the activity than on building new code given the time limitations.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Understand what GHG products are available in the US GHG Center portal and use the data to answer scientific questions
  2. Use the US GHG Center portal to explore and compare existing datasets and data layers
  3. Employ Jupyter notebooks to perform data analysis and visualization of Earth science data in the cloud
  4. Gain understanding of GIS workflows
  5. Produce visualizations and images for a report summarizing the activity and knowledge gained
  6. Understand principles for contributing to open-sourced software projects

Target Audience

The target audience for this workshop includes Earth Science researchers, educators, and students across all career stages and disciplines who are interested in utilizing GHG datasets and open-source tools for their research projects. The workshop will be beneficial for both experienced programmers seeking an overview of modern open tools and those just getting started with scientific programming.

Code of Conduct

This workshop will be held following the Transform to Open Science Code of Conduct.