Title: “GitHub as a cloud portal for reproducible research workflows”
Speaker: Scott Henderson
Scott is a research scientist at the University of Washington department of Earth and Space Sciences and data science fellow at the eScience Institute. He has a PhD in geological sciences and specializes in radar remote sensing with research applications in tectonic hazards and cryosphere monitoring. Scott has been involved in the Pangeo community from the early days and enjoys working on projects that promote open science and large scale computing with a wide variety of satellite datasets.
When: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 4 PM US Eastern (2026-04-08T20:00:00Z)
Where: Launch Meeting - Zoom
Abstract:
We often focus on using GitHub to manage software projects, but over the last decade it has evolved into something much more than a platform for storing source code. Especially with the advent of GitHub Actions and connections to Azure, GitHub provides a simplified gateway to cloud computing for small teams, and with their education program, the free tier resources provided are surprisingly generous for academic groups. I plan to showcase some resources we’ve compiled at University of Washington over the last couple years (Welcome to GitHub Actions for Scientific Data Workflows — GitHub Actions for Scientific Data Workflows (SciPy 2024)), highlight a publication that used GitHub Actions for batch processing of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data (GitHub - relativeorbit/fufiters: run hyp3-isce2 via github actions · GitHub), and have some discussion about pros and cons of current cloud computing infrastructure options.
Agenda:
- ~15 minutes – Showcase presentation
- 10-30 minutes – Discussion
- 15-30 minutes – Community check-in