Julia Stewart Lowndes - Open Science, Openscapes, Climate Action, and Kindness

In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, marine ecologist and co-founder of Openscapes, Julia Stewart Lowndes, joins the show to discuss a variety of topics. Lowndes explains the concept of open science and the role of the Mozilla Foundation played in forming Openscapes. She also touches on contributing to open science on GitHub, psychological safety, and inclusivity. Additionally, we discuss the climate crisis and explore solutions and ways to get involved in local climate action. We highlight a number of resources where you can learn more about the climate. The conversation also covers the impact of the climate crisis on youth and how they can engage in solutions.

After the episode, we had a conversation about trustworthy resources for climate activists and those interested in learning more. The result was the open climate repository on GitHub, to which we invite everyone to contribute.

Continue the conversation on Discord.

Links

• Julia Stewart Lowndes on the web


• Julia Stewart Lowndes on LinkedIn


• Openscapes


• Openscapes Champions program


• Podcast episode with Tara Robertson


• Open Source at GitHub with Abigail Cabunoc Mayes and Naytri Sramek


• 25 years after returning to Yellowstone, wolves have helped stabilize the ecosystem


• Mozilla Foundation


• Combined climate- and prey-mediated range expansion of Humboldt squid


• Mozilla Foundation Open Leaders


• GitHub Accelerator


• GitHub for supporting, reusing, contributing, and failing safely


• Abigail Cabunoc Mayes


• R Markdown


• NASA Openscapes on GitHub


• NMFS Openscapes on GitHub


• National Oceanic and Administration (NOAA) on GitHub


• Erin Robinson


• All We Can Save


• The Carbon Almanac

Recorded and produced by Mechanical Ink.

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