OHI+ program history & overview

[jules32]

With our 2019 OHI Fellows, this is an (incomplete!) overview of the OHI+ program that we discussed in Seaside Chats. We will walk through all of these things, looking at the links and discussing each point (and updating it as we discuss!)

Timeline

• 2013
  • Position created to support independent OHI teams, senior analyst hired
  • Workshop with Baltic, China, Hawaii
  • Transition towards OHI Toolbox
  • Finish up academic case studies Brazil, Fiji, US West Coast
• 2014
  • ohicore, GitHub
  • Colombia, Ecuador Gulf of Guayaquil, Israel, China, Canada
  • OHI team scoping British Columbia, US Northeast
• 2015 "OHI+" program
  • OHI+ usually means "led by independent groups" e.g. Baltic. Like TEDx.
    • (but also sometimes "at smaller than global scales" e.g. Northeast)
  • PeerJ article Best practices for assessing ocean health in multiple contexts using tailorable frameworks
    • Figure 1
    • Table 1
  • ~Positions hired for British Columbia and US-Northeast
  • Gulf of Guayaquil, Israel, Canada finishes
• 2016
  • Launch ohi-science.org
    • OHI Global, OHI+
    • OHI+ asssessments map & directory
    • Manual
    • publications -- all OHI related pubs
    • forum -- that's where these notes are!
    • blog/news -- lots of tips/tricks and summaries
  • Improved OHI+ support
    • intro to open data science
    • OHI+ better documentation, repos, and websites with each repo e.g. Southwest England
  • Baltic, China finishes
• 2017
  • Nature E&E article Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools
    • Figure 1
    • ohi-science.org/betterscienceinlesstime, includes media & presentations
  • Blogs
    • Examples of OHI and management
• 2018
  • OHI Global Fellows program
  • Full-time OHI Communications person! -- Awesome blogs, visualizations
    • Guide to navigating through OHI resources
    • What makes OHI stand out in the sea of environmental indicators?
    • 2018 year in review
    • GitHub: A beginner's guide to going back in time (aka fixing mistakes) -- most read blog 2018!
  • How to build a successful OHI technical team
  • ohi-science.org reshuffle
    • Manual becomes toolbox-training
    • OHI-Go vs OHI+: "OHI Opportunities"
    • Samoa
    • OHI+ Hawaii, Bali, Arctic finish
    • OHI+ student projects to date: Spain, England, Moorea
• 2019
  • OHI Fellows program Cohort 2 (name changed from "Global" to open possibility of Fellows working on repeat assessments)
  • OHI+ program unsupported
  • OHI+ Norway, Baltic (repeat), Ecuador (build from pilot), Canada-Atlantic (build from pilot)
  • Northeast and British Columbia will finish

One Julie-centric narrative: I was hired to support countries interested in adapting the OHI Global framework to their own regions. Starting with the Nature Paper, we created a word document/PDF manual, and as we created the OHI Toolbox, I started to also include how to use our software. Then realized I needed to not only teach our R package, I needed to teach R and GitHub. So we focused on developing tools and support for that. Then, I also needed to help people work collaboratively, and also think like a team. So that has led to Openscapes, which is my focus now.