diff --git a/.github/workflows/sphinx-docs.yml b/.github/workflows/sphinx-docs.yml
index 1cb35f8..d6292e3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/sphinx-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/sphinx-docs.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 name: "Sphinx: Render docs"
 
-on: push
+on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
 
 jobs:
   build:
diff --git a/environment-docs.yml b/environment-docs.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ec293e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/environment-docs.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+name: instrumentserver-docs
+channels:
+  - conda-forge
+  - defaults
+dependencies:
+  - python=3.10
+  - sphinx>=5.0
+  - sphinx-autobuild>=2021.3.20
+  - pydata-sphinx-theme>=0.13.0
+  - myst-parser>=0.18.0
+  - linkify-it-py
+  - sphinx-autodoc-typehints>=1.19.0
+  - nbsphinx>=0.8.0
+  - nbconvert>=7.0.0
+  - jupyter>=1.0.0
+  - ipython>=7.0.0
+  - scipy>=1.0
+  - pandas>=1.0
+  - xarray>=0.16
+  - packaging>=20.0
+  - pip
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