About Us

Anthony Arendt

Anthony Arendt holds a joint appointment at the University of Washington as a Principal Research Scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory and a Senior Research Fellow at the eScience Institute. Anthony conducts research on the impacts of glacier change on water resources and sea level using remote sensing datasets. He is interested in empowering scientists to work collaboratively toward solving complex enviornmental problems through data sharing and the building of open source software. Anthony was a PI and Science Team Lead for the 2016-2019 NASA HiMAT.

Charley Haley

Charley Haley is Innovation Strategist and Collaboration Structuralist at Back Loop Consulting Group in Seattle, Washington.

S. Fisher Qua

S. Fisher Qua is a Practitioner with Back-Loop Consulting. His work exists to unflatten learning, protect our collective imagination, and restore the belief in other people's intelligence.

We wish to acknowledge the incredible group of scientists who co-created much of what we present here during the 2016-2019 NASA High Mountain Asia Team project.

Contributing

We recognize there are many ways to build highly collaborative teams. What is offered here is based on our direct experience in designing collaborative structures within a community composed primarily of earth scientists. We hope this documentation will continue to evolve as we test and refine new methods. We welcome contributions to this document at our GitHub page or via e-mail to Anthony Arendt (arendta@uw.edu).