NASA Openscapes: Lessons Learned supporting Cross-DAAC User Services to migrate to the Cloud

The NASA Openscapes project answers a call from NASA Earthdata to support both the NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) User Services staff and the initial, early adopter scientific researcher teams as they transition their workflows from to the cloud. In order to support this change, the project has three goals: (1) Engage a cross-DAAC Mentor community of collaborative cloud data instructors, that co-create, curate, and use shared resources ("make once, use often") (2) Empower science teams through the Champions program to migrate their download- intensive data analysis workflows to the cloud and open, kinder science and (3) Scale Open Science leaders - to support more teams transforming their workflows towards open, kinder science and the cloud. We will highlight the cross-DAAC mentor community NASA Earthdata Cloud Cookbook. The Cookbook content was initially developed for the November 2021 NASA Earthdata Cloud Hackathon hosted by PO.DAAC in collaboration with the NSIDC DAAC and the LP DAAC and supported by the NASA Openscapes Project, ASDC DAAC and GES DISC. From that initial work, the material has been refined and reused across DAACs highlighting the common elements to accessing NASA Earthdata in the cloud. We then used this material in early 2022 with the NASA Openscapes Champions cohort, ten research teams that are early adopter research teams interested in migrating their data access and analysis workflows. Through all of this work with early adopters, we collectively addressed many of the initial challenges to accessing NASA Earthdata on the cloud. We will share those lessons learned. Moving forward we are expanding the cross-DAAC mentor community to new DAACs and continuing to create and share materials. Our hope is that through this work, NASA DAACs will be well-positioned to support more research teams as they migrate to the cloud and help enable better science through both capacity building and the power of the cloud.