About me
Dr. Julia Stewart Lowndes is Openscapes founding director and co-leads the NASA Openscapes project. I am a marine ecologist working at the intersection of actionable environmental science, data science, and open science, having earned my PhD from Stanford University in 2012 studying drivers and impacts of Humboldt squid in a changing climate. My main focus now through Openscapes is mentoring teams to develop open source technical and leadership mindsets and skills for data-intensive research, grounded in climate solutions, inclusion, and kindness. This work builds from my own research team’s path to better science in less time at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and over ten years of experience as an open source contributor as a Mozilla Fellow and R community teacher and speaker. In 2022 I started Openscapes LLC, a small woman-owned value-driven organization to support the Openscapes open source community.
