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+# 2024 EPA
+
+Welcome to the 2024 EPA Cohort! This is a Cohort for the U.S
+Environmental Protection Agency, Center for Environmental Measurement
+and Modeling (CEMM). Learn more about Openscapes and the EPA CEMM. Learn
+more about [Openscapes](https://openscapes.org), the [Champions
+Program](https://openscapes.org/initiatives#champions-program), and the
+[EPA
+CEMM](https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/about-center-environmental-measurement-and-modeling-cemm).
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+<img align="right" src="horst-champions-trailhead.png" width="450">
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+## Cohort Agendas
+
+We will meet as a Cohort via Zoom five times over two months for 1.5
+hours each:
+
+- **Dates:** April 10, 24, May 8, 22, June 5
+- **Times:** 10:00 - 11:30 am PT
+- **Location:** Remotely, via MS Teams
+
+Agendas are accessible to Cohort participants in our Cohort Teams Drive
+Folder; they are also an archive of our live notetaking. Please see
+<https://openscapes.org/series> to view blank versions of the agendas.
+
+| Date  | Cohort Call Topics                                   |
+|:------|:-----------------------------------------------------|
+| 04/10 | Openscapes mindset                                   |
+| 04/24 | GitHub for publishing & project management           |
+| 05/08 | Team culture and data strategies for future us       |
+| 05/22 | Open communities and coding strategies for future us |
+| 06/05 | Pathways share and next steps                        |
+
+## Co-working times (optional)
+
+Co-working sessions are where we work at the same time together.
+Sometimes, this means quiet work with check-ins to break up focused work
+and get feedback, and sometimes this involves asking questions and
+screensharing to learn and problem solve.
+
+- **Dates:** Thursdays April 17, May 2, 16, 30
+- **Times:** 11:00 - 12:00 PT / 1:00 - 3:00 pm ET
+- **Location:** remotely, via Teams
+
+## Participating teams
+
+Some brief information about participating teams. Please add any edits
+directly (we’ll learn how in our GitHub Clinic!)
+
+## Openscapes Team
+
+Julie Lowndes (@jules32), Openscapes
+
+Stefanie Butland (@stefaniebutland), Openscapes
+
+Gayle Hagler, EPA
+
+Jeff Hollister (@jhollist), EPA
+
+Farnaz Nojavan (@farnazn), EPA
+
+Michael McManus, EPA
+
+## More about Openscapes and the Champions program:
+
+- **[Our path to better science in less time using open data science
+  tools](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0160)** (Lowndes et
+  al 2017, *Nature Ecology & Evolution*) - this paper greatly influences
+  the whole Champions program and we’ll ask that everyone participating
+  reads it before our first Cohort Call on April 10.
+- **[Openscapes: Better Science for Future
+  Us](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HGw4P095-lblHiGQHXYidHiVysjrPxuojxTxKtE13vk/edit#slide=id.ge2b7c2f974_0_2017)** -
+  2021 plenary talk at the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent
+  Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE) inaugural conference
+- **[Openscapes embraces kindness and inclusion in open
+  science](https://sparcopen.org/impact-story/openscapes-embraces-kindness-and-inclusion-of-open-science/)** -
+  2021 article about Openscapes
+- **[openscapes.org](https://openscapes.org/)** – Openscapes is operated
+  at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, UC Santa
+  Barbara