Workshop Agenda

The full-day workshop will be divided into the following sections:

8:00 - 8:15
Welcome
  • Welcome message
  • Workshop Introduction
  • Team Introduction
  • Icebreaker
8:15 - 8:45
Overview of the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center and the Science
  • What is the US GHG Center?
  • Role of Methane and Carbon Dioxide in Climate Change
  • What is included in the Center and why these datasets
  • Introduction to the science use cases / demonstration areas that will be explored during the workshop
8:45 - 10:00
Introduction to the GHG Center Data Catalog
  • Intro to the VEDA project and its relevance to Earth Science research and the US GHG Center
  • How do VEDA and US GHG Center support Open Science
  • Components of VEDA/US GHG Center
  • Hands-on exercise: searching and accessing cloud-optimized datasets using the STAC catalog
    • Intro to JupyterHub and Jupyter Notebooks
      • Access to the JupyterHub environment
      • Creating and running a Jupyter Notebook in the hub
    • Using the pystac client library to read the US GHG STAC catalog
      • List all available datasets
      • Spatial and temporal search
      • Access assets and visualize them
    • (Time-permitting) Accessing the US GHG STAC catalog using QGIS on the browser
      • Establishing connection to the US GHG STAC catalog using the qgis-stac-plugin in QGIS in the GHG Center JupyterHub environment
      • Adding a dataset/asset from the catalog as layer in QGIS
10:00 - 10:15
BREAK
10:15 - 11:15
Human Anthropogenic Emissions
  • Introduction and background of datasets & human anthropogenic emissions
  • Hands-on exercise: Comparing emissions across sectors and time using EPA Gridded Methane data
  • Hands-on exercise: ODIAC: Compare to satellite data over time (using OCO-2, OCO-3 DAAC data), introduce intersection with geospatial data
11:15 - 12:15
Complementing anthropogenic GHG emissions with natural GHG emissions and fluxes
  • Introduction
  • Description of data sets and analysis available via the U.S. GHG Center (e.g., gridded wetland emissions and ecosystem exchange estimates)
  • Hands-on exercise: Exploring annual U.S. wetland methane emissions and their - meteorological influences.
12:15 - 1:30
LUNCH BREAK
1:30 - 2:45
Identifying and quantifying emissions from large point source methane emission events leveraging aircraft and satellite data
  • The EMIT Instrument: Overview and GHG Applications
  • Hands-on exercise: Locating enhancement, understanding temporal relevance, exploring site with multiple observations.
2:45 - 3:15
Open Science in Action: Intro to GitHub & Communicating Science Discoveries via Web Dashboard
  • Introduction to web dashboards for science communication
  • Hands-on exercise: creating a web dashboard to communicate science discoveries using the platform
3:15 - 3:45
Closing Remarks
  • Future Developments and Community Contributions
  • Engaging with the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center
  • Feedback

Throughout the workshop, facilitators will be available to provide support and guidance, ensuring participants are able to actively explore the workshop topics and apply their knowledge and skills to their own research projects.