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+title: "NASA Earthdata Data Chat with Aaron Friesz"
+author: 
+  - name: Aaron Friesz
+    orcid: 0000-0003-4096-3824
+  - Joseph M. Smith
+date: 2024-04-04 
+citation:              
+  url: https://nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2024-04-04-nasa-earthdata-aaron-friesz/ 
+categories: 
+  - blog    
+  - nasa-framework 
+image: aaron-friesz_headshot_data-chat.jpg
+---
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+Aaron Friesz, science coordination lead at NASA's Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center ([LP DAAC](https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/eosdis/daacs/lpdaac)) and NASA Openscapes Mentor, helps promote open science principles to empower more diverse, inclusive, and effective data science communities.
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+Read the [NASA Earthdata Data Chat interview with Aaron](https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/data-chats/aaron-friesz) where he discusses what being a NASA Openscapes Mentor entails, how he and his fellow mentors promote open science, and the resources available to help users develop their cloud computing skills.
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+![](aaron-friesz_headshot_data-chat.jpg){fig-alt="headshot of Aaron Friesz in black and white. White man, dark hair beard and mustache wearing a dark buttoned shirt with light narrow vertical stripes" width="20%"}