NTSG Research Scientist Arthur Endsley Receives NASA Funding for TOPS Training Program

Top view of tractors farming from Unsplach.com by: No One Cares — NTSG's Dr. Endsley will teach a computational climate-science curriculum to help professionals understand how climate change affects agriculture.

A proposal from NTSG Research Scientist Arthur Endsley was selected for funding by NASA under its Transform to Open Science (TOPS) Training program. 2023 is NASA's Year of Open Science, and the TOPS Training program aims to make NASA's science more "collaborative, accessible, inclusive, and transparent for everyone." Dr. Endsley's proposal is to develop a computational climate-science curriculum, teaching reproducible scientific computing skills to professional researchers who are interested in using NASA's gridded climate datasets to understand how climate change is affecting agriculture, healthy soils, and water resources. The 2-year award will culminate in multiple workshops taught at the École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique (ENSA) in Algeria, along with other virtual workshop opportunities.