Publishing all your research.
Sharing research data, software, and workflow is fundamental to building a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) open science ecosystem. Indeed, over the past decade, funders and publishers have introduced open science policies emphasizing reproducibility, recognizing increased frameworks that support the sharing of reproducible science products.
The next logical step was to promote these resources and train the community in their use. Supported by the National Science Foundation, FROGS is a LinkedEarth initiative that linked together science practice and publishing in a series of asynchronous and synchronous trainings.
What have we done so far?
With the first round of funding, we concentrated on two main thrusts: (1) the creation of an interactive platform, LeapFROGS and (2) a series of workshop aimed at geoscientists in various stages of their career.
LeapFROGS
LeapFROGS is a free online platform that curates lecture materials on science practice and publishing, along with interactive, self-graded exercises to create self-paced learning modules on various aspects of scientific research. The platform launched in May 2024 ahead of our first workshop and is available in a Python kernel and an R kernel. It has been updated throughout 2025 to address various aspects of scientific research and publishing.
The modules include links to reference materials together with exercises that test understandings of the concepts by filling in the blanks. Learners can get hints and detailed solutions. This platform also supports synchronous learning during training events. However, it is intended to be open to the entire geoscience community and can be used for self-paced tutorials outside of the training events.
Training workshops
All training events consisted of an synchronous hackathon followed by several weeks of practical exercises to incorporate the training into the participants’ research. We also held office hours during these weeks to help participants integrate these publishing principles into their research workflow. To learn more about the various workshops and their outcome, refer to our past workshops page.
Our resources page contain links to all the products created under FROGS such as the instructional platform, learning materials, YouTube tutorials and more! Check it out!
Stay in touch!
If you have attended a FROGS workshop (or missed the opportunity but are looking forward to more), stay in touch by email, through our Discourse forum, or on social media (X and Bluesky). Also, check out our Medium blog for news about LinkedEarth.
Support
This work is supported by NSF grants RISE 2324732/2324733 from the Geoscience Open Science Ecosystem program. Travel grants are available for US-based participants.