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Working Groups

Teams scaling environmental synthesis beyond the laptop through shared questions, reusable methods, and public project sites.

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Cohort 1

Foundational working groups

The first cohort established the collaborative template for OASIS working groups and remains the densest cluster of active project sites.

Cohort 1

BioViewPoint

Visualization tools and ecological viewpoints for biodiversity data.

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Extreme Wildfire

Investigating extreme wildfire behavior and environmental change.

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Fungal Dispersal

Open synthesis on fungal dispersal, connectivity, and ecological spread.

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Cohort 1

Macrophenology

Macroecological phenology patterns across changing environments.

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Cohort 1

Maka-Sitomniya

Research on place-based and traditional ecological knowledge.

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Cohort 1

AI for Natural Methane

Harmonizing natural methane datasets and discovery workflows with AI.

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Cohort 1

Zooplankton Indicator Dataset

Indicator dataset and tools for zooplankton-driven environmental analysis.

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Cohort 2

Newly launched cohorts

These groups have their own emerging project identities and now have public-facing OASIS pages to match.

Cohort 2

popClimVar

Working group site for population and climate variability research.

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EnviroLLM

Environmental large-language-model workflows and collaborative experimentation.

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GUBIC

Global Urban Biological Invasions Consortium collaboration hub.

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Cohort 2

Public Observing Unci Maka

Public observing and place-based environmental knowledge collaboration.

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Cohort 2

VERDE

Working group site for VERDE environmental data synthesis.

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Cohort 3

New synthesis teams

Cohort 3 working groups are newly launched synthesis teams developing repositories and websites as living records of their science.

Cohort 3 · Newly launched

Ecosystems Under Invasion

Synthesizing how terrestrial ecosystem properties respond to degree of invasion.

Open Project → CU-ESIIL/ecosystems-under-invasion

Cohort 3 · Active

EdgeSS: Sensor Synthesis at the Edge

Integrating real-time environmental sensor data, edge computing, and AI for scalable environmental insight.

Open Project → CU-ESIIL/edgess

Cohort 3 · In development

CMSMapper

Developing integrative strategies for siting climate mitigation solutions that balance nature, people, and land-use tradeoffs.

Open Project → CU-ESIIL/CMSMapper

Cohort 3 · Newly launched

Worldwide Plankton

Linking food web theory with global plankton datasets to quantify freshwater trophic interactions.

Open Project → CU-ESIIL/worldwideplankton

Cohort 3 · Newly launched

Thermo ToleRate

Redefining ectotherm thermal tolerance under variable climate by accounting for temperature intensity and exposure duration.

Open Project → CU-ESIIL/Thermo-Tolerate

Cohort 3 · Newly launched

Long Read Sequencing for Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

Using long-read sequencing to synthesize arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi biogeography and diversity.

Open Project → CU-ESIIL/AMFungi_Biogeography_Diversity

Cohort 3 · Active

Spectral Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning

Exploring how spectral diversity can inform ecosystem function and environmental synthesis.

Open Project → CU-ESIIL/spectral-diversity-ecosystem-functioning

Cohort 3 · In development

Wopasi Pazo

Newly launched Cohort 3 working group site; details and synthesis goals are in development.

Open Project → CU-ESIIL/wopasi_pazo

Cohort 3 · In development

NEON-SYNC

Newly launched Cohort 3 working group site focused on NEON-SYNC; details and synthesis goals are in development.

Open Project → CU-ESIIL/NEON_SYNC

Cohort 3 · Active

AI in a Day

Cohort 3 working group exploring AI-enabled environmental synthesis and practical AI workflows for science.

Open Project → CU-ESIIL/AI-in-a-day