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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán

@briannaritapagan.bsky.social

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Tech Lead @developmentseed Formerly @NASA Lecturer @ Loyola Marymount University Founding Editorial Board Member @ Cloud-Native Geospatial Steering Council Member @ Pangeo open source enthusiast, ultra runner

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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Jan 14

When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most.
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When our community burned where was the satellite information?

Video of our home burned down taken by a neighbor after the Palisades Fire. I am writing this as a follow-up to my brief post last week showing a video of our home destroyed by the Palisades fire.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · May 9

The hits keep coming...

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations (@unidata.bsky.social): www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...

"As a result of the freeze, NSF Unidata faces a significant current funding gap."

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

www.unidata.ucar.edu

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aimeeb @yayyyimee.bsky.social · Apr 4

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?

bsky.app/profile/eart...

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Kevin Bullock @kevinbullock.bsky.social · Apr 2

In response to some new mappers wanting to pitch in to help first responders in Myanmar, I created a quick tutorial for beginners using OpenStreetMap and HOTOSM tasks. Let's get mapping. #MyanmarEarthquake #Myanmar www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaQj...

Quick HOTOSM tutorial for beginners - Myanmar response

YouTube video by Kevin Bullock

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Apr 2

Does anyone know of any scholarships or funds for career development/conference attendance for federal folks recently laid off? Trying to get some amazingly talented and knowledgable people at some upcoming summer conferences...

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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Mar 14

Also I am humbled every week at how far we are from getting cloud-optimized datasets and workflows widely implemented to make working with the data easy. I think I am going to start recording the types of super valid/basic questions students ask... haven't quite found the right amount of abstraction

Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Mar 14

I've long accepted (and really enjoyed) moving from scientist to science-enabler in the type of day-to-day work I do, but nothing replaces the stoke of teaching students some basic amount of geospatial analytics & watching them quickly adapt codes to perform climate risk assessments on the fly 🥹 💚🌎

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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Mar 7

I'm a long time DevSeed admirer, not just for their tech expertise, leadership & incredible commitment to open-source dev - but also the way everyone on this team carries themselves with kindness and curiosity. The org and folks have my utmost respect and I'm grateful to join such an amazing team!

Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Mar 6

Excited to welcome @briannaritapagan.bsky.social as a Technical Project Lead! 🚀🌍

She brings expertise in remote sensing, cloud infrastructure, & geospatial data, across startups, research labs, open-source communities, and NASA.

Welcome to the team! 🙌

🔗 developmentseed.org/team/brianna...

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Feb 20

A project I've been working on for the last 6 months. I feel really strongly about making geospatial technology and data available and understood by as many people as possible. And that requires getting creative with the ways we share information. This is my small contribution to that effort.

Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Feb 20

🚀 We made a zine!

"𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱: 𝗔 𝗭𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘀" is our answer to the notion that Big Ideas are best shared through accessible, creative, and impactful formats.
🔗 ds.io/cloud-native...
by @kiricarini.com & @gusbusdraws.bsky.social

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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · Feb 11

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation.

www.chron.com/news/space/a...

NASA to wipe mentions of women, Indigenous people from websites

NASA employees told to remove mentions of women, indigenous people, and environmental justice from websites.

www.chron.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Feb 11

A colleague just had to convince her institution that the FAIR data principles are not DEI.

FAIR data - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · Jan 29

Who here provides contract services to support open source GIS software like GDAL, PROJ, QGIS, PostGIS, GeoTools, Leaf map, etc.? I am not looking myself for said services, but I would love to see how diverse the ecosystem is. #gischat

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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Jan 29

It's been a long time and I think the new high-resolution version has even more fields but I used only a subset of fields necessary to calculate upstream inflows and general catchment boundaries. Not sure if what's on the GEE catalog is helpful: gee-community-catalog.org/projects/nhd...

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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · Jan 23

blog: The Abundance of Community at the 2024 AGU Meeting.
Reflections following the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2024.
openscapes.org/blog/2025-01...
#OpenScience #KinderScience

photo inside a restaurant, 20 smiling women and men facing the camera

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Jan 17

The surge in wildfire disasters that wipe whole towns, neighborhoods, and suburbs off the map is simply not sustainable (for so very many reasons). We see this through wholesale collapse of communities & mass displacement, though skyrocketing rents & imploding insurance markets.

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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Jan 16

this came out today: www.cnn.com/2025/01/16/u...

A ‘dangerously unacceptable breakdown’ led to errant or delayed evacuation warnings in LA County. The rest of the US isn’t immune | CNN

Myriad problems have plagued Los Angeles County’s alert system as wildfires torch America’s most populous county. But the fiascos highlight vulnerabilities nationwide.

www.cnn.com

Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Jan 16

We can respectfully disagree - I do not have the energy or interest to argue arbitrarily on the internet right now.

Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Jan 16

No information of where an active raging fire is for 12+ hours in a densely populated wildland urban interface seems like a failure to me. And if you’ve never waited up for 48 hours refreshing every news and map to see if you lost everything - you might have a different opinion.

Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Jan 16

The fire started about 12 hours before reaching our home, there were no updates for 6 hours before burning. We listened to the warnings and left but some people did not and lost their life, many others stayed much longer not knowing where the fire was at hoping to save their homes.

Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hi Dominic thank you - I’m aware of those data sources. If you read the blog post my focus is real time and commercial imagery providers. Unfortunately NASA FIRMS dashboard and Sentinel products are not meeting the on the ground information need.

Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Jan 14

When our community burned where was the satellite information?

Video of our home burned down taken by a neighbor after the Palisades Fire. I am writing this as a follow-up to my brief post last week showing a video of our home destroyed by the Palisades fire.

www.linkedin.com

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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Jan 10

It’s hard to not think of work in all of this - and all I can say is that geospatial community folks we have a lot to do to make data and info free and readily available during times of crisis. Knowing useful data was there and not able to access was 💔

Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Jan 10

We lost our home in the #PalisadesFire and right now I don’t have many words. We love these mountains, the animals and our communities. Grateful for every moment of sunshine and peace in this little cottage and grateful that we got out in time.

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Santiago Gassó @sangasso.bsky.social · Jan 6

🧪🛰️
In 1999, NASA's first EOS mission went up and the way we look at Earth from above has changed. Since then , the Earth Observatory has been sharing fantastic imagery and its related science with everyone. The EO is now a grown up.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15273...

25 Years, 25 Images

Over the past two and a half decades, EO has published more than 15,000 image-driven stories. This video highlights some of our favorites.

earthobservatory.nasa.gov

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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Dec 17

I missed giving my AGU talk, but I joined #ScenefromAbove for an extended version - chatting about the need for federated compute, finding the right abstraction for satellite data distribution, and how the not-so-sexy work of metadata standards (and their gaps) are holding us back. 🎧

S15E2: Is the future of geospatial in the cloud? A conversation with Dr. Brianna R. Pagán

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Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · Dec 13

NASA has recently released updated websites for data!

Check out the new Science, Earth, and Planetary data sites!

#OpenScience #NASA #AGU24

science.data.nasa.gov

earthdata.nasa.gov

planetary.data.nasa.gov

Science Data Portal

science.data.nasa.gov

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