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  • IN23A-03: Co-Designing Cloud-Enabled Geospatial Workflows: Building Earth Data Science Capacity with Tribal Communities through Sovereignty-Aligned Open Science Infrastructure
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Author(s):
Lilly Jones, CIRES University of Colorado Boulder (First Author, Presenting Author)
James Sanovia, University of Colorado Boulder
Virginia Iglesias, University of Colorado at Boulder


Tribal Nations are leading efforts to care for land, water, and fire in ways grounded in Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) and the CARE Principles: Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics. Many mainstream science tools and training programs are not designed with Tribal needs in mind. This creates barriers to Tribal-led Earth Data Science (TEDS).


We present a collaborative, open-source framework co-designed with Tribal partners to support TEDS. It helps communities analyze and manage environmental data through cloud-based, Python-powered tools that are modular, scalable, and reproducible. A core component is a data cube architecture hosted on open platforms like CyVerse and GitHub. This system supports integrated land, water, and fire analysis using workflows that are accessible to both technical and non-technical users.


The framework embeds IDSov into both technology and governance. It includes access controls and culturally meaningful metadata aligned with the CARE Principles. To support long-term use, we also offer training that helps interdisciplinary teams build, document, and share their own workflows and data products.


This work shows how co-designed, open geospatial science can advance Tribal self-determination, protect community knowledge, and support ethical, community-led environmental stewardship.




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