Science should be seen
Science, particularly science funded by government agencies, should be transparent and accessible to all. To support this, I actively participate in the Open Science movement through multiple avenues:
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Outreach |
Open Software, Code, and Data. I post all data and code to online repositories, primarily my GitHub page. I use open-source software (R, python, InkScape) to facilitate code sharing and have created and released several open source tools:
No Paywalls. I am a community ambassador for EarthArXiv, an earth sciences preprint server and part of the Open Science Framework. I post all manuscripts to EarthArXiv to share the evolution of projects, and publish in open-access venues when I have enough funding.
Accessibility. To make science accessible to all, I take a variety of steps including providing captions for all video content, using colorblind-friendly palettes on slides and figures, and creating alt-text for images, and formatting documents for text-to-voice compatibility.
Outreach. Science is not just for academics, but the interested public as well. I am a regular blogger for Water Underground (part of the AGU and EGU Blog Networks), am actively engaged on scientific Twitter, and participate in a variety of community outreach events such as Skype A Scientist.
Skill-sharing. I've recently been trying to write up random methods and techniques I use in case it happens to help anyone. For example, here's a post on extracting and plotting your citation data from Google Scholar.
What more can I do? I am always looking for ways to improve... Tweet @ZipperSam with ideas!
- I am the author and maintainer of the streamDepletr R package containing a variety of tools for streamflow depletion modeling.
- AgroStream, a program to collect agricultural tweets, is available on GitHub and described in Zipper (2018).
- The High Resolution Mapping of EvapoTranspiration (HRMET) surface energy balance model, described in Zipper & Loheide (2014), is available on GitHub for both R and MATLAB.
No Paywalls. I am a community ambassador for EarthArXiv, an earth sciences preprint server and part of the Open Science Framework. I post all manuscripts to EarthArXiv to share the evolution of projects, and publish in open-access venues when I have enough funding.
Accessibility. To make science accessible to all, I take a variety of steps including providing captions for all video content, using colorblind-friendly palettes on slides and figures, and creating alt-text for images, and formatting documents for text-to-voice compatibility.
Outreach. Science is not just for academics, but the interested public as well. I am a regular blogger for Water Underground (part of the AGU and EGU Blog Networks), am actively engaged on scientific Twitter, and participate in a variety of community outreach events such as Skype A Scientist.
Skill-sharing. I've recently been trying to write up random methods and techniques I use in case it happens to help anyone. For example, here's a post on extracting and plotting your citation data from Google Scholar.
What more can I do? I am always looking for ways to improve... Tweet @ZipperSam with ideas!