​Climate Data, AI, and the Next Open Dataset

​ProgramEarth, CitSci.org, and Colorado Sustainability Hub invite you to a roundtable to answer:

​What would it look like to build an open climate data ecosystem that connects community monitoring, scientific datasets, and AI?

​Topics we may explore

• ​Open Climate Intelligence — datasets that can support AI-driven climate research

• ​Community monitoring data — watershed, soil, and Indigenous-led environmental observations

• ​Open-source climate tools — how developers can help structure and analyze environmental data

• ​Connecting regional efforts — universities, Tribal partners, and monitoring networks

​Why this matters

​Two challenges keep coming up:

• ​Communities often have environmental data but lack tools to interpret it

• ​Developers building climate tools don’t know which datasets they can trust

​We’re curious if Colorado Climate Week could be the place to start connecting these pieces.

​Join the conversation

​If you're working on environmental data, climate tech, community monitoring, or open-source tools, come share what you're building and help shape what an Open Climate Data Initiative could look like.

​What participants will walk away with

• ​A clearer picture of the climate data landscape — what datasets already exist and where the biggest gaps are

• ​Examples of community and Indigenous-led monitoring efforts that could inform research and AI tools

• ​Ideas for open-source tools and collaborations that help structure, verify, and analyze environmental data

• ​New connections with researchers, developers, and organizations working on climate data and AI

• ​Early input into a potential Open Climate Data Initiative connecting universities, community monitoring networks, and open-source communities

​Organizers

​ProgramEarth
ProgramEarth works with Indigenous and local communities to advance nature-based climate solutions, including biochar, soil restoration, and watershed monitoring. Through partnerships with Tribal Nations stewarding over 2.6 million acres, the organization helps surface community environmental datasets and build open tools that support ecosystem restoration and climate resilience. Current projects span Souther Colorado, Utah, Northern Arizona, California, Washington, the Great Lakes, and international collaborations in Brazil and India.

​CitSci.org (Citizen Science Association)
CitSci.org supports global citizen science and community monitoring efforts by providing tools and platforms that help communities collect, manage, and share environmental data. Their work connects community-generated observations with researchers and environmental decision-makers.

​Colorado Sustainability Hub
The Colorado Sustainability Hub is an NSF-funded platform led by MSU Denver in collaboration with CSU Fort Collins, CSU Pueblo, University of Northern Colorado, and University of Denver. The Hub brings together interdisciplinary research, data science, and climate innovation. The Hub is exploring how aggregated environmental datasets can support sustainability research and emerging AI and LLM applications for climate intelligence, all things Colorado.