Merge pull request #40 from nmfs-openscapes/sb-cp-leptoukh

cp leptoukh talk event

Author: stefaniebutland

blog/2026-03-19-leptoukh-lecture-reprise/index.qmd

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+title: "Julie Lowndes' Greg Leptoukh Lecture Reprise"
+description: "Forking as a Worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science"
+author:
+  - name: Openscapes
+date: 2026-03-19
+categories:
+  - event 
+  - nasa-framework
+  - noaa-fisheries
+image: leptoukh-receiving-award.jpg
+---
+
+*Cross-posted at* [openscapes.org/events](https://openscapes.org/blog)*, [nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog](https://nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog)*, [*nasa-openscapes.github.io/news*](https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/news.html).
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+At the AGU 2025 Fall Meeting Julie Lowndes, Openscapes founding director, received the [AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture Award](https://www.agu.org/honors/leptoukh). This award celebrates the life of an inspiring Earth scientist in our community and recognizes significant contributions to informatics, computational, or data sciences through research, education, and related activities.
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+We're lucky that Julie will give her talk again so we can all tune in. It will be recorded.
+
+**Date**: March 19, 2026\
+**Time**: 10:00 am Pacific Time; 1:00 pm Eastern Time\
+**Where**: remotely, [via Zoom](https://agu.zoom.us/j/99945375572?pwd=sdDH5cy8uvnwy5DaTub1MkJdNjdkI9.1)
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+This represents so much shared joy from our community, including the nomination by NASA Mentors + Allison Horst, and co-authoring with the Openscapes core team. Details with the official AGU citation, Julie's abstract, and slides are [posted](https://openscapes.org/blog/2026-01-15-agu-leptoukh-award-julie-lowndes/).\
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+::: {style="text-align:center;"}
+![Aaron Friesz, Amy Steiker, Sudhir Shrestha, Julie Lowndes, Danie Kinkade, Alex Lewandowski, Luis Lopez as Julie receives Leptoukh Award, AGU 2025.](leptoukh-receiving-award.jpg){fig-alt="6 women and men smiling, wearing conference lanyards, standing in front of a large screen projecting a headshot of Julie Lowndes and her talk title Forking as a worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science" fig-align="center" width="50%"}
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