Earth Lab integrates the massive volume of Earth systems data available from space, airplanes, sensor networks, social media and other sources to address environmental challenges. At Earth Lab, scientific research and earth analytics education are coupled with powerful analytic capabilities. Analytic power fuels creative and collaborative teams of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate research assistants and undergraduate interns with innovative research. Education efforts provide the needed career-focused skills to new and seasoned scientists alike. Earth Lab envisions a future where all Earth data is most effectively used to help society manage and adapt to global environmental change. Earth Lab: 1. Capitalizes on the data deluge from Space and other platforms to accelerate science. 2. Reduces environmental risk by using this wealth of data to better understand and predict Earth System change. 3. Trains a new generation of data scientists who can address outstanding Earth Science questions. Earth Lab projects are driven by a commitment to open and reproducible science. As part of this commitment, Earth Lab develops tools to simplify data access and use in open tools including R and Python. Earth Lab also provides cutting-edge training with reproducible computational workflows. Earth Lab develops courses, tutorials and teaching ready data subsets that are open and available to the community as well.
