Empowering Environmental Justice Research with NASA Earth Data
Creators: name: Elizabeth R. Joyner
name: Helen Blue Parache
name: Sheyenne Kirkland
name: Randi Neff
name: Jerika Christman
name: Wendy X. Edwards
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Overview

Time:  July 23, 2024, 9-12pm ET

Location: The Smoky Mountains STEM Collaborative, Southwestern Community College, Sylva, NC - 447 College Drive, Sylva, NC 28779, Room: Balsam 253

Session Lead Organizers: Elizabeth Joyner, Community Coordinator, NASA Earth Science Data Systems; Jerika Christman Chung, NASA IMPACT

Other Session Organizer(s): Randi Neff, SWCC

Audience: 25 Practical data users with some level of experience with remotely sensed data. This may include, but is not limited to: GIS users, researchers, public health officials, urban planners, university/community college faculty/students, etc. 

Optional:



UPDATE! The NASA IMPACT team asks that for those attendees who wish to access the VEDA’s JupyterHub computing environment during the session, please complete the following steps prior JULY 17th. 



Sign-up for GitHub



Navigate to https://github.com/.

Click Sign up.

Follow the prompts to create your personal account.



Complete the following form: https://forms.gle/HSQm4U7N2pZj6AQb6



VEDA team invites* you to the GitHub Group. 



Once your handle is added, *check the email associated with your GitHub account for an invitation to join the GitHub Group.

ACCEPT your invitation to the group to gain temporary access to the computing environment. 

For questions, please reach out to veda@uah.edu with the subject line "SWCC 2024 Workshop".  


Recommended Ways for Participants to Prepare: 



Users can also choose to review our VEDA Docs to learn more about VEDA and its components. 

Fully Charged Laptop, Laptops are available for those who need one during the training


Challenge: Environmental justice communities and practical data users often lack the resources to access and utilize NASA's vast Earth science data archives. This hinders their ability to understand and address environmental issues impacting their communities. This workshop will feature two innovative, open-source tools that bridge this gap:





NASA Environmental Justice Data Search Interface (EJDSI) powered by the Science Discovery Engine: This open-source platform seamlessly integrates data in the agency's Earth science collection that can be used to further environmental justice and climate justice efforts, allowing users to search through hundreds of datasets from multiple missions and view results in list or table view. This tool empowers researchers and communities with:



Discovery and Accessibility: Users can easily find relevant Earth science and socioeconomic datasets curated for specific environmental justice topics.

Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Science: EJDSI fosters collaborative research by enabling data sharing and analysis across disciplines.





VEDA Dashboard - Environmental Justice Thematic Area: NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is a cloud-based, open-source science cyberinfrastructure that lowers the barrier to entry for engagement with scientific data. VEDA combines accessible scientific context through storytelling with interactive data exploration and analysis services, such that expert and non-expert users can transparently switch between derived findings and original data, including access to compute resources. VEDA is also a pathfinder project for leveraging cloud-native geospatial technologies. Its dedicated thematic area offers:



Data integration: VEDA provides users with opportunities to develop holistic insights of environmental issues in EJ communities by uniting diverse datasets from across NASA including socioeconomic data, Earth observations and machine learning tools.

Actionable insights: Users explore and visualize environmental parameters, access data through Jupyter Hub, analyze phenomena, and inform future  decision-making using data driven insights.




Objectives: 



Enhance Awareness: Showcase NASA Earth Science Data System's Equity and Environmental Justice (EEJ) resources and opportunities

Empower Communities: Model the functionalities of both Environmental Justice Data Search Interface (EJDSI) and Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) for research and decision-making

Engage Learners: Provide an interactive environment for exploring these tools, while having access to NASA Subject Matter Experts


DRAFT Agenda: 








9-9:45 AM







Welcome, Overview of the Day, Outcomes, Resources




Ice Breaker: Introductions, Celebrations & Empty Our Cups




NASA Earth Science Data Introductions - Environmental Justice Connections







9:45- 10:10 AM







Overview: NASA Environmental Justice Data Search Interface (EJDSI) 







10:10- 10:20 AM







Time to explore in Breakout rooms




Reflect on the questions in Google Sheet







10:20 -10:30  AM



Share out





10:30 -10:45 AM 



Break





10:45-11:15 AM







Overview: VEDA Dashboard - Environmental Justice Thematic Area:NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA)







11:15-11:35 AM







Time to explore in Breakout rooms




Reflect on the questions in Google Sheet







11:35-11:45 AM



Share out





11:45 - 12 PM







Whole Group Discussion & Share out




Q&A/Survey




Adjourn








 
description: Resources



Registration Form


Environmental Justice Data Search Interface



Science Discovery Engine: The Science Discovery Engine (SDE) enables discovery of over 80k open science datasets, software packages, and documents across SMD.



NASA Environmental Justice Data Search Interface  (BETA)



The new interface enables users to conduct a general search or search within eight focus areas, such as Disasters, Climate Change, Extreme Heat, Urban Flooding, and Water Availability. 






VEDA



VEDA Dashboard

VEDA User Documentation: How to use our ecosystem for cloud-enabled open science with Earth data at NASA

VEDA JupyterHub

VEDA Example Notebooks


Earthdata:



All Pathfinders:



Air Quality

Agriculture and Water Management

Biological Diversity and Ecological Conservation

Disasters



Tropical Cyclones

Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Extreme Heat

Floods

Landslides

Wildfires



Diseases

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Greenhouse Gases

Sea Level Change

Water Quality



UNBOUND



EJ: Report and training videos



 Newsletter:



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Social Media: 



NASA Earthdata X: @NASAEarthdata , NASA Earthdata

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Webinar Series: 



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Earthdata Login:



User Registration System (aka Earthdata Login)



Earthdata Log-in



Earthdata Login Tips







Earthdata Forum:



Earthdata Forum 



The Earthdata Forum provides a central online location where data users can interact with subject matter experts from DAACs to discuss data applications and research needs, and get answers to specific questions about accessing, viewing, and manipulating NASA Earth observation data.



Tutorials



NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: Menu Features

NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: How to Post a New Question

NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: Faceted Search

NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: Favorite Tags

Webinar: NASA's Earthdata Forum Connect to a Growing Body 







Here you can submit a ticket that will be filtered and triaged to the appropriate discipline-specific data center or subject matter expert(s). Email: support@earthdata.nasa.gov 




Earth Action:





Applied Remote SEnsing Training (ARSET) 






Training: Satellite Data for Air Quality Environmental Justice and Equity Applications





EEJ Monthly Newsletter Subscription






NASA’s Equity and Environmental Justice program releases a monthly newsletter with the latest from the program, other NASA opportunities and resources, and other news from the environmental justice field.




Connect with Us:



Elizabeth Joyner, LinkedIn, elizabeth.r.joyner@NASA.gov

Helen B. Parache, LinkedIn

Sheyenne Kirkland, LinkedIn, sheyenne.kirkland@uah.edu