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We are facing big challenges (climate change, hazards, limited resources), and we need more people – more hands, more eyes, more brains – with diverse experiences to participate so that we as publishers can ask the best questions and work toward the best solutions.​

Open science should be accessible, reproducible, and inclusive, such that our practices can accelerate the pace of science​, increase its impact and applications, and expand participation in science. In this talk – with discussion encouraged throughout! – I’ll review the current state of open science, how authors can navigate their open-access options with AGU, and best practices for open data and software. Questions and further discussion about challenges the audience has experienced are welcome!

Margaret Moerchen is a Ph.D. astronomer who currently serves as Director of AGU Journals at the American Geophysical Union, where her primary responsibilities are the new open-access multidisciplinary journal AGU Advances and the launch of the Community Science Exchange platform. Before this, she was the President’s Science Deputy at the Carnegie Institution for Science, where she worked on scientific programs, strategic planning, seed grants, and external partnerships, and she served as the headquarters liaison to all staff scientists. She has also been an editor at Science, handling astronomy and planetary research, and conducted postdoctoral work with the European Southern Observatory in Chile, at Leiden Observatory, and at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Her research focused on the signatures of exoplanetary formation and on infrared camera development for large ground-based telescopes. Margaret graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A.) and the University of Florida as a Michelson/Sagan Fellow (M.S., Ph.D.).

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