Welcome to the FOGSS Workshop GitHub page. Please contact the FOGSS organizers if you would like to become a member of this repository.
We're using this space to advance the activities first proposed during the April 2024 FOGSS workshop. For now, we anticipate work and coordination will occur using the Discussions capability (3rd tab from the left up top).
The four main categories of methods we identified previously for studying the Greenland Ice Sheet have been broken out into their own "Working Groups." One of the first posts in each category are the priorities identified during the FOGSS 2024 workshop at University of Idaho.
To stay up-to-date with existing and new discussions, click on the watch button (with an eye icon) near the top of this page (above the green Code button) and then select All Activity, Custom > Discussions, or just Participating and @mentions. You can later unsubscribe from any individual conversation if it is not relevant to you.
FOGSS workshops are the forum where the community maps out actionable priorities for Greenland Ice Sheet Science that inform U.S. funding agency programmatic planning. Our vision is to have FOGSS serves as a mechanism by which interested community members can openly self-organize into groups that initiate and carry out prioritized work.
The work intended to take place here stems from discussions begun at the 2024 workshop. The tasks for that workshop were two-fold:
- Identification of a guiding, unifying goal for the community of Greenland Ice Sheet scientists
- The development of actionable initiatives/missions, each targeted towards furthering the guiding, unifying goal
The community-identified guiding goal for FOGSS (task 1) is "Capturing ongoing rapid transformations across the Greenland Ice Sheet and their impacts on Earth and society." Here, with this Github workspace, we hope the Greenland Ice Sheet science community will continue advancing the second task (i.e., actionable initiatives/missions) between FOGSS workshops.
You can learn more about these goals and the structure and content of the 2024 workshop here. Work products and presentations from the 2024 workshop are viewable in this Google Drive.
Github might feel overwhelming at first, but fear not! We won't use it for computer code only, but also as a collaborative project management tool.
- We highly recommend this inspiring article: Not just for programmers: How GitHub can accelerate collaborative and reproducible research in ecology and evolution. It describes many Github use cases for science and academia, beyond maintaining version control for code.
- We expect most of the work taking place here will be through the GUI at github.com, without any reliance on the git command line interface. For example, to edit this document, click the 📝 icon at the top right of this page, make your suggested changes, then select "Commit canges..."
Work on FOGSS is supported via grants from NASA and NSF.
This Github page is inspired by the project management and coordination implemented within https://github.com/IACS-cryo/Delineation-WG by @mankoff and @fmaussion.