Award: The American Geophysical Union’s 2025 Open Science Recognition Prize, awarded to a person or team for outstanding work in advancing Open Science related to Earth and space science and its impact globally.
Awarded to: Dr. Chelle Gentemann, senior program executive at the International Computer Science Institute on an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment as the Open Science program scientist in the Office of the Chief Science Data Officer at NASA Headquarters in Washington. She began her open science advocacy in her work as an oceanographer, where she publicly shared her datasets and software, taught open science workshops, and advocated for more transparent, reproducible science. Dr. Gentemann has testified before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics and co-authored the National Academies Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for NASA Space Studies. She then brought this expertise into helping NASA shape open science policy on a programmatic level.
Dr. Gentemann’s efforts resulted in 2023 being recognized as a “Year of Open Science” by the U.S. government. She co-authored NASA’s open science trainings — Open Science 101 and Open Science Essentials — which have taught foundational open science practices to thousands of researchers, managers, students, and members of the general public. Dr. Gentemann also co-created one of NASA’s first cloud …