Updates from the OEDP Team
Here's what OEDP has been up to the past few months, plus: reading lists, opportunities, and more!
Apply to OEDP’s Inaugural Data Stewardship Learning Circles
At OEDP, we believe that better data stewardship approaches are needed to unlock the benefits of community-generated environmental data. We also believe that we can build and learn better approaches in collaboration with one another.
The Data Stewardship Learning Circle invites a cohort of (15-20) environmental data stewards and community scientists to come together to tackle real data governance challenges. Members of the cohort learn practical strategies and test new tools alongside peers facing similar questions about how to protect, manage, and amplify the impact of community-generated data.
Through seven virtual sessions, we will develop your data stewardship instincts and build a data stewardship toolkit full of tools and workflows that can be applied to real-world data challenges.
Launching the Environmental Justice Tools Engagement Project
OEDP, as part of PEDP and its partner organizations, just launched the Environmental Justice Tools Engagement Project! You can read a bit more about this work on our blog, or fill out this form to get involved. We have some upcoming workshops and welcome participation from anyone who’s been impacted by the takedown of these tools. Stay tuned for some of our DC Climate Week programming, too!
Meet Our New Team Members!
Welcome, Charles Wallace-Thomas IV (Senior Fellow) and Dayna De La Cruz (Social Media Intern)! Stay tuned for some proper introductions over the next few weeks 🤗
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Executive Director Brittany Janis, alongside several of our PEDP collaborators, were featured in TIME Magazine! You can read the coverage here.
Founder & Senior Fellow Shannon Dosemagen and Data & Technology Lead Cathy Richards attended the OSHF Hardware Ecosystem Requirements for Open and Emerging Science conference, reflecting on 10 years of open hardware work.
Sr. Manager of Research & Policy Emelia Williams went to the NCEAS Environmental Data Science Summit, where their project team worked on mapping and exploring the relationships between communities, researchers, and government.
Director of Communications & Engagement Michelle Cheripka attended the Pixels to Environmental Patterns workshop hosted by the University of Nebraska to explore open imagery using GRIME AI software for narrative storytelling and scientific discovery.
What We’re Reading, Watching & Listening To…
💡 Brittany has been reading the Belfer Center’s newest report: AI, Data Centers, and the U.S. Electric Grid: A Watershed Moment
🏥 Katie has been reading Environmental Protection Network’s latest newsletter on how Trump’s EPA abandoned public health and the environment in 2025—and how we turn the tide in 2026
🐐 Emelia’s watching the GOAT Donna Haraway’s lectures on Staying with the Trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth
🧠 Cathy is reading about Our Emerging Planetary Nervous System
🩹 Shannon is re-reading The Science of Repair: How People who Believe in Facts Can Build a Better Future by dear collaborator Gwen Ottinger
⛏️ Charles is reading Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism by Thea Riofrancos
⛸️ Megan has been overjoyed at Alysa Liu’s joy at the Olympics (is it too soon to try out the bleached rings hair dye style?)
💧 Michelle is reading Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Get monthly updates on what we’re reading, watching, or listening to on our website.
Opportunities
Here are a few event (🎟️), funding (💰), professional (💼), and other (🗨️) opportunities we want to share with you all:
🗨️The National Academies is seeking experts for their Standing Committee for Earth Observations, Data, and Information Systems; recommend an expert before March 10 (tomorrow!).
🎟️ OEDP alum Madhuri Karak will be on MataSEA’s inaugural webinar, reflecting on the relationship between climate justice and technology through a feminist lens. Register for the event here, happening this Friday (Mar 13).
💰Green Screen Coalition’s Catalyst Fund is accepting nominations for individuals, networks, and organizations who are catalysing action on environmental justice issues across the AI supply chain (due March 15).
💼 Applications are now open for the Clean Energy Leadership Institute’s 2026 Fellowship Program! Regular deadline is next Monday, but you can submit until March 18 at the latest.
💼 Berkeley is recruiting a Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar at the School of Information; the final date to apply is March 20.
💼 Our partners at NY Climate Exchange are hiring for a Director of Data Stewardship (rolling).
🎟️ Register for FedGeoDay 2026! Happening April 22-23.
If you have something you’d like to submit for our next letter, please reach out to dayna@openenvironmentaldata.org with the subject “Newsletter Opp Submission.”