Julie Lowndes’ Greg Leptoukh Lecture Reprise

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Forking as a Worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science
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Openscapes

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March 19, 2026

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Cross-posted at openscapes.org/events, nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog, nasa-openscapes.github.io/news.

At the AGU 2025 Fall Meeting Julie Lowndes, Openscapes founding director, received the AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture Award. This award celebrates the life of an inspiring Earth scientist in our community and recognizes significant contributions to informatics, computational, or data sciences through research, education, and related activities.

This represents so much shared joy from our community, including the nomination by NASA Mentors + Allison Horst, and co-authoring with the Openscapes core team.

A summary post includes the official AGU citation, Julie’s abstract, and links to slides and recording.

Date: March 19, 2026
Time: 10:00 am Pacific Time; 1:00 pm Eastern Time

6 women and men smiling, wearing conference lanyards, standing in front of a large screen projecting a headshot of Julie Lowndes and her talk title Forking as a worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science

Aaron Friesz, Amy Steiker, Sudhir Shrestha, Julie Lowndes, Danie Kinkade, Alex Lewandowski, Luis Lopez as Julie receives Leptoukh Award, AGU 2025.