About me
Dr. Julia Stewart Lowndes is Openscapes founding director and co-leads NASA Openscapes and NOAA Fisheries Openscapes projects. I am a marine ecologist working at the intersection of actionable science, data science, and open science. My main focus is mentoring teams to develop technical and leadership mindsets and skills for data-intensive research, grounded in climate solutions, inclusion, and kindness. I earned my PhD from Stanford University in 2012 studying drivers and impacts of Humboldt squid in a changing climate. I am an active participant in the open science community as a contributor and speaker, and co-founded RLadies Santa Barbara. In 2018 I founded Openscapes as an open source community following my own research team’s path to better science in less time, as a Mozilla Fellow and Senior Fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California Santa Barbara. In 2022 I started Openscapes LLC, a woman-owned small business and 1% for the Planet member, to support the growing Openscapes open source community.
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