I share @rabernat.bsky.social excitement about icechunk!!! On top of delivering 100x performance, it can make impossible tasks possible.

Why am I so excited to endorse #icechunk and #virtualizarr?

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1/ 🚀 Solving #NASA ’s cloud data dilemma: Icechunk unlocks 100x faster access to archival data formats

We're thrilled to publish results from our pilot project with NASA and @developmentseed.org to enable high-performance cloud-native access for NASA’s 100s of petabytes of Earth observation data.

Next week I'm co-hosting a session with @cloudnativegeo.org at the @esipfed.bsky.social winter meeting "Cloudy with a Chance of Science".

We will hear from folks with use cases for and experts in cloud-native technologies. with!...
2025januaryesipmeeting.sched.com/event/1snZd/...

Yesterday @agu.org '24, I learned about Sargassum, massive seaweed clusters disrupting ecosystems. The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is 13–20M tons! 🌊

Read more: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15118...

This discovery was made by USF's Optical Oceanography Laboratory: www.usgs.gov/news/feature...

Should there be more use of competitions and benchmarks for climate science? Why or why not?

Doing research on open science for a union session @agu.org 2024. Inspiration: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/g9mau4m0...