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Sabrina Szeto
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🛰️🗺️👩🏻‍💻co-founder @thrivegeo.bsky.social & @geospatialwomen.bsky.social | 📚 closing the skills gap in #geospatial data literacy | #EarthEngine GDE | #earthobservation #EdTech #upskilling
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Curious about the new #Zarr data format for #Sentinel data? Want to ask experts from @developmentseed.org and thriveGEO how to use it?

Join our Office Hours session on Nov 4, 10-11am (UTC+1):
buytickets.at/thrivegeo/19...

Everyone is welcome!
Select tickets – EOPF Zarr Community Notebook Competition - Office Hours 1 – Google Meet
EOPF Zarr Community Notebook Competition - Office Hours 1 – Google Meet, Tue 4 Nov 2025 - Welcome to the EOPF Toolkit Community Notebook Competition! We're inviting Sentinel data users and developer...
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Curious about the new #Zarr data format for #Sentinel data? Want to ask experts from @developmentseed.org and thriveGEO how to use it?

Join our Office Hours session on Nov 4, 10-11am (UTC+1):
buytickets.at/thrivegeo/19...

Everyone is welcome!
Select tickets – EOPF Zarr Community Notebook Competition - Office Hours 1 – Google Meet
EOPF Zarr Community Notebook Competition - Office Hours 1 – Google Meet, Tue 4 Nov 2025 - Welcome to the EOPF Toolkit Community Notebook Competition! We're inviting Sentinel data users and developer...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Are thy dailye worke taskes tedious and mundane? Add "space" to them! Suddenlye you are livinge the science fictioun future -- goinge to space workeshoppes, sendinge space emayles, figuringe out your space travel reimbursement formes.
October 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Have you seen our missing members?

Last year, the Women+ in Geospatial community left Slack and moved over to Circle, and our new space offers even more opportunities for networking, mentorship, and collaboration.

Haven’t made the switch yet? We miss you.

Join us: forms.gle/5TQY4FNi5qK9...
June 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Going to be at #LPS25 in Vienna? Here are some evening networking events that may be of interest. 🥤Drinks provided and 🥨 some snacks too!

✨ Monday, 23 June

🥤🥤Earth Engine User Meetup (18:00-19:30)
www.tickettailor.com/events/thriv...

Register now and see you there!
Select tickets – Earth Engine User Meetup @LPS – Arcotel Kaiserwasser
Welcome to the Earth Engine User Meetup at LPS! Join us for an evening of networking opportunities with fellow Earth Engine ent...
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June 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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We're about to get started with our event today, Putting Menstrual Health on the Map! We'll be having a chat about importance of access to menstrual health, what constitutes a menstrual-friendly restroom, and what solutions we can think up. It will be recorded to view later! #WiGlive
May 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Come join us for an #EarthEngineUserMeetup at #LPS25! Meet other EE users and the Google Earth Outreach team to network and share your experiences using Earth Engine on Monday evening (23 June).

🥤Drinks are sponsored by Google Earth Outreach.

www.tickettailor.com/events/thriv...
Select tickets – Earth Engine User Meetup @LPS – Arcotel Kaiserwasser
Welcome to the Earth Engine User Meetup at LPS! Join us for an evening of networking opportunities with fellow Earth Engine ent...
www.tickettailor.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Join the 7th Joint Atmospheric Composition Training Course hosted by ECMWF, #CopernicusAtmosphere, @eumetsat.int and @esa.int ! Learn the latest in atmospheric composition monitoring, emphasis on aerosols. 13-17 Oct., Brussels. Apply by 29 June! Info ➡️ atmosphere.copernicus.eu/7th-ecmwf-ca...
May 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I'm on a train to Vienna for #EGU25! Can't wait to meet up with the geoscience & geospatial community there:

Wednesday, 30 April
🌏 Town hall - Science, No Fiction: Touchdown. The Environmental Open Science Starship returns to Earth - the Next Generation of Open Scientists. Room N1 19:00-20:00
April 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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At @egu.eu EGU25 with your children?
Bring them along to this newly-added pop-up event!! Suitable for anyone 7 years old and over :)

Find it under pop-up events (as "How the Earth works"): webforms.copernicus.org/EGU25/pop-up...

(Help me circulate to anyone that might be interested please!)
April 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Amid all the other very terrible things happening this is also terrible.
Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. scim.ag/4ctpT4Z
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
scim.ag
April 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Welcome to Women+ in Geospatial, a global professional network promoting diversity and gender equality in the geospatial industry. Run by volunteers, we offer community building, career development events, a year-long mentorship programme, and much more.

Learn all about us: womeningeospatial.org
April 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
We have a couple more spots left for the #cloudnative #geospatial workshop on 2-3 April!

thrivegeo.com/cloud-native...

Come and get hands-on with cutting-edge cloud technologies for #EarthObservation & #SpatialData processing.
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The new episode of #SceneFromAbove is here! Our guest is Swetha Kolluri, who works on #AI and Digital Innovations at the World Bank. Swetha shares how the cloud powers development experiments, and how EO, citizen science and AI can address global challenges.

www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-8i...
March 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
February 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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OPEN DATA ALERT World Bank created a Global Biodiversity Species Global Grid database, based on data from GBIF and machine-based pattern recognition to generate species occurrence maps 🧪🌍https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/a-new-world-bank-database-to-support-a-new-era-in-biodiversity-c
A new World Bank database to support a new era in biodiversity conservation
The World Bank's new biodiversity database includes over 600,000 species, providing critical, high-resolution data to enhance conservation strategies and support global initiatives like the 30x30 fram...
blogs.worldbank.org
February 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Hey #geospatial folks, know someone looking for an impactful geo-role? My company, thriveGEO, is #hiring a geospatial data engineer (full-time, remote, ideally in DE) and a communications manager (part-time, remote, global). Salary range 50-70k EUR full-time equivalent.

thrivegeo.com/careers/
Careers – thriveGEO | Earth Observation Data Training and Consulting
thrivegeo.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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After a @Bellingcat workshop years ago, a participant built a geolocation tool to find locations that all had i.e. a library and a cafe in a 20m radius. Now, there's a supercharged version of that tool! Thanks @sanjanamv.bsky.social for flagging it. www.findthatspot.io
SPOT - the easy way to verify locations
Spot is a tool for finding combinations of objects in the public space world-wide.
www.findthatspot.io
January 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Have you already tuned in to the new episode of the #SceneFromAbove podcast, hosted by Dr. Julia Wagermann & @sabrinaszeto.bsky.social of ThriveGeo, + featuring a great interview w/ Dr. @briannaritapagan.bsky.social of NASA GSFC? 🤔 It's an insightful view into the future of #cloud #geospatial! 🧐
December 18, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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In case you missed it, our mini grants application opens up on January 6th, 2025.

This program is designed for our members to apply for funding for research, travel, personal expenses, etc.
December 12, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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I am at #AGU24 this week sharing about fire research I am leading with CFS/NRCan & #WildFireSat! 🧪

Find my poster about underserved users tmw, Mon from 8:30-12:20 at board 0078, Hall B-C

Then, find my oral presentation on Mon about the WildFireSat mission science from 16:45-17:00 in 152B! 🔥🌲🛰️
December 8, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Is there already a Starter Pack of Women and Nonbinary Professionals in #Geospatial and #EarthObservation? If not, let's start one.
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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This Bluesky follow finder is super neat. It finds folks you don’t follow who follow folks you follow. So it helps fill in your network. It’s the type of cool stuff enabled by an open ecosystem. bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
Bluesky Network Analyzer
Find accounts that you don't follow (yet) but are followed by lots of accounts that you do follow.
bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
November 16, 2024 at 12:51 PM