diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker-image-argis-pangeo.yml b/.github/workflows/docker-image-argis-pangeo.yml
index 7f65618..0579cdb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker-image-argis-pangeo.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker-image-argis-pangeo.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ name: Docker Image CI argis pangeo
 # IMAGE_TAG whatever tag you want to automatically be used
 env:
   IMAGE_NAME: arcgis-pangeo
-  IMAGE_TAG: latest
+  IMAGE_TAG: xarray
   
 on:
   workflow_dispatch: null
diff --git a/images/arcgis-pangeo/Dockerfile b/images/arcgis-pangeo/Dockerfile
index 461ee84..eedb1ea 100644
--- a/images/arcgis-pangeo/Dockerfile
+++ b/images/arcgis-pangeo/Dockerfile
@@ -1,14 +1,37 @@
-FROM pangeo/base-image:2023.01.13
-# pango base will look for environment.yml and apt.txt and install
+# ancient version by needed for Python 3.9
+FROM jupyter/base-notebook:lab-2.2.9
 
-# activate notebook env that pangeo base creates
-RUN conda init zsh && conda init bash
-
-USER ${NB_USER}
-
-# broken here; complaining re node.js and npm
 RUN jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager@2 && \
     jupyter labextension install arcgis-map-ipywidget@2.0.0
 
+# conda is ancient in this old version of base-notebook
+RUN conda install -n base conda=22.11.1
+RUN conda update -n base conda
+# faster solver in the more recent conda releases
+RUN conda config --set solver libmamba
+
+RUN conda install -n base --yes -c esri 'arcgis=2.0.0'
+RUN conda install -n base --yes -c conda-forge xarray dask netCDF4 bottleneck
+RUN conda install -n base --yes -c conda-forge rasterio gdal~=3.6 geopandas
+
+COPY apt.txt /tmp/apt.txt
+
+USER root
+
+RUN echo "Installing Apt-get packages..." \
+    && apt-get update --fix-missing > /dev/null \
+    && apt-get install -y apt-utils wget zip tzdata > /dev/null \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+	
+RUN echo "Installing helpful packages..." \
+	&& apt-get update --fix-missing > /dev/null \
+    # Read apt.txt line by line, and execute apt-get install -y for each line in apt.txt
+    && xargs -a /tmp/apt.txt apt-get install -y \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* 
+
+USER ${NB_USER}
 
-WORKDIR ${HOME}
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+RUN fix-permissions "${CONDA_DIR}" && \
+    fix-permissions "/home/${NB_USER}"
diff --git a/images/arcgis-pangeo/Dockerfile_xarray b/images/arcgis-pangeo/Dockerfile_xarray
deleted file mode 100644
index b00d5e6..0000000
--- a/images/arcgis-pangeo/Dockerfile_xarray
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-# ancient version by needed for Python 3.9
-FROM jupyter/base-notebook:lab-2.2.9
-
-RUN jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager@2 && \
-    jupyter labextension install arcgis-map-ipywidget@2.0.0
-
-# conda is ancient in this old version of base-notebook
-RUN conda install -n base conda=22.11.1
-RUN conda update -n base conda
-# faster solver in the more recent conda releases
-RUN conda config --set solver libmamba
-
-RUN conda install -n base --yes -c esri 'arcgis=2.0.0'
-RUN conda install -n base --yes -c conda-forge xarray dask netCDF4 bottleneck
-RUN conda install -n base --yes -c conda-forge rasterio
-RUN conda install -n base --yes -c conda-forge geopandas
-
-# version control for jupyter notebooks
-RUN conda install -n base --yes jupytext -c conda-forge
-
-RUN conda clean --all -f -y
-
-COPY apt.txt /tmp/apt.txt
-
-USER root
-
-RUN echo "Installing Apt-get packages..." \
-    && apt-get update --fix-missing > /dev/null \
-    && apt-get install -y apt-utils wget zip tzdata > /dev/null \
-    && apt-get clean \
-    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-	
-RUN echo "Installing helpful packages..." \
-	&& apt-get update --fix-missing > /dev/null \
-    # Read apt.txt line by line, and execute apt-get install -y for each line in apt.txt
-    && xargs -a /tmp/apt.txt apt-get install -y \
-    && apt-get clean \
-    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* 
-
-USER ${NB_USER}
-
-RUN fix-permissions "${CONDA_DIR}" && \
-    fix-permissions "/home/${NB_USER}"
diff --git a/images/arcgis-pangeo/environment.yml b/images/arcgis-pangeo/environment.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index e2160a6..0000000
--- a/images/arcgis-pangeo/environment.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-name: arcgis-pangeo
-channels:
-  - conda-forge
-dependencies:
-  - python=3.9
-  - pangeo-notebook
-#  - esri::arcgis=2.0.0
-## Utilities
-  - pip
-  - nodejs # for installing jupyterlab-widgets
-  - ipywidgets
-##
-  - jupyterlab=2.2.9
-  - jupyterlab-git
-  - jupyter-resource-usage
diff --git a/images/arcgis-pangeo/really_full_environment.yml b/images/arcgis-pangeo/really_full_environment.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e05870..0000000
--- a/images/arcgis-pangeo/really_full_environment.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-name: arcgis-pangeo
-channels:
-  - conda-forge
-dependencies:
-  - python=3.9
-  - pangeo-notebook
-#  - esri::arcgis=2.0.0
-## These are core geospatial packages
-  - dask
-  - distributed
-  - rioxarray
-  - xarray>=2022.12
-  - gdal~=3.6
-  - libgdal
-  - geopandas
-  - rasterio
-## These are for dealing with file formats
-  - h5netcdf
-  - netcdf4
-  - h5py
-  - hdf5plugin
-  - pydap
-  - zarr
-  - kerchunk
-  - rechunker
-  - s3fs
-## Visualization and plotting
-  - geoviews
-  - matplotlib-base
-  - hvplot
-  - datashader
-  - bqplot
-  - ipyleaflet
-## Working with data catalogs and searching
-  - earthaccess>=0.5.1
-  - intake
-  - pystac-client
-  - pyproj
-  - cartopy
-## Utilities
-  - conda-lock
-  - pip
-  - nbgitpuller~=1.1.0
-  - nodejs # for installing jupyterlab-widgets
-  - ipywidgets
-##
-  - jupyterlab=2.2.9
-  - jupyterlab-git
-  - jupyterlab-favorites
-  - jupyter-resource-usage
-  - jupyterlab-geojson
-  - jupyterlab-git
-  - jupyter-resource-usage
-  - jupyterlab-link-share
-  - jupyterlab-h5web
-## Add VSCode; server proxy allows the other proxies
-  - jupyter-server-proxy
-  - jupyter-vscode-proxy
-  - code-server >=3.2
-## Unknown
-  - pynco
-  - shapely
-  - pyresample
-  - joblib
-  - lxml
-  - ipympl
-  - pooch
-  - rasterstats
-  - pqdm
-
diff --git a/images/arcgis-pangeo/start b/images/arcgis-pangeo/start
deleted file mode 100644
index 61cbfc4..0000000
--- a/images/arcgis-pangeo/start
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -l
-
-# ==== ONLY EDIT WITHIN THIS BLOCK =====
-
-export PANGEO_ENV="arcgis-pangeo"
-
-# ==== ONLY EDIT WITHIN THIS BLOCK =====
-
-exec "$@"
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diff --git a/images/arcgis-pangeo/full_environment.yml b/images/arcgis-pangeo/xarray_environment.yml
similarity index 100%
rename from images/arcgis-pangeo/full_environment.yml
rename to images/arcgis-pangeo/xarray_environment.yml