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🧊 Icechunk 2 is now available in alpha: Move/rename nodes without rewriting, shift chunks without consuming I/O, write metadata at the repo level, and so many performance improvements. Check out @rabernat.bsky.social and @seabass.bsky.social 's post to get the full list!
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Today @rabernat.bsky.social is at the @nationalacademies.org in DC participating on a panel about governance models for Earth data with @ecmwf.int, @esipfed.bsky.social, @wmo-global.bsky.social and more: we only wish we all could attend "Future Directions for Earth Observations and Stewardship"
December 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Xarray, Zarr, and Icechunk together offer the best all-around developer experience for working with tensor data in the cloud- AND best-in-class performance for I/O bound workloads. Check the performance benchmarks @rabernat.bsky.social posted on our blog: earthmover.io/blog/i-o-max...
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Earthmover is hiring a Rust engineer! Great team, fully remote and open to international candidates- but please please don't send us the AI version of your resume, we already have more than enough 😶 jobs.gusto.com/boards/earth...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Wildfire season may be abating, but our need to understand future scenarios has not: Come join CTO
@jhamman.bsky.social Thursday morning for a workshop: Predicting cloud native wildfire risk with the Earthmover platform: m.earthmover.io/predictingwi...
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Today, napari users can’t fully leverage Xarray’s labeled metadata, as slider names, units & dimensions often get out of sync. That’s changing. At SciPy 2025, napari, Xarray & CellProfiler devs began a collab to build true metadata-aware visualization across sciences.
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Scientific Data Visualization with Xarray and Napari - Earthmover
Ian Hunt-Isaak Xarray Community Developer Tim Monko Neuroscience PhD & napari community manager This blog was also published on the xarray blog and the napari blog. TL;DR Making Napari and Xarray work...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
For climate predictors and weather analysts: You didn't actually miss the workshop "Replicating official NYC climate risk predictions from ERA5 using Arraylake and Icechunk"- we moved it to this Thursday, October 30! Join us: m.earthmover.io/replicatingo...
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
For climate predictors and weather analysts with #climateweekNYC FOMO: We will reprise our hands-on workshop, “Replicating official NYC climate risk predictions from ERA5 using Arraylake and Icechunk," online this Thursday, October 23 at 9AM EST: join us! m.earthmover.io/replicatingo...
October 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Need to put your Icechunk or Zarr data on a map in minutes? Watch this demo to see how xpublish-tiles renders cloud-stored arrays directly into interactive MapLibre maps — no preprocessing needed. youtu.be/EK2HG_lSgA4
Wicked Smaht DEMO: Dynamic Map Tile Rendering from Icechunk to Mapbox with xpublish-tiles
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October 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In case you missed it: Tomorrow, @deepakcherian.bsky.social will give a live demo that will take you from Zarr/Icechunk to Mapbox/MapLibre with a click of a button! Build faster, smoother maps with no pre-processing using the Earthmover platform’s latest feature: Tiles. m.earthmover.io/wickedsmaht
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
WHOI scientist Iury Simoes-Sousa built a groundbreaking ocean eddy dataset... that took 10 minutes to query. With Icechunk in the cloud, it’s now 10 seconds -- a huge step forward for open, cloud-native ocean science.

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From 10 Minutes to 10 Seconds: How Woods Hole Scientists used Icechunk to Optimize Ocean Data Access - Earthmover
Iury Simoes-Sousa Postdoctoral Investigator, Physical and Computational Oceanography Note: this is a guest post by Woods Whole Oceanographic Institute scientist Dr. Iury Simoes-Sousa Among the many wa...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Meet @rabernat.bsky.social, @jhamman.bsky.social and more of the Earthmover team at our #ClimateWeekNYC events. PSA: the hands-on tech workshop Wednesday and panel on Thursday still have capacity, but are filling up fast.
September 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#ClimateWeekNYC is here- and there's a hands-on technical workshop with @rabernat.bsky.social at the Geospatial Risk event on Wednesday afternoon at St. John's (Manhattan): "Open Data in Applied Risk Analysis." Here's the link to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-works...
Tech Workshop: Open Data in Applied Risk Analysis
NYC Climate Week events by Geospatial Risk!
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September 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#ClimateWeekNYC is almost upon us, as is the "What is the future of AI Weather Forecasting?" panel with @rabernat.bsky.social, @juliangsf.bsky.social, @mikepritchard.bsky.social, Google, Sorcerer and NVIDIA on Tuesday, September 23. Come join us! luma.com/svimvi2y?tk=...
What is the Future of AI Weather Forecasting? Climate Week NYC · Luma
A panel of AI Weather experts from Brightband, Earthmover, Google, NVIDIA, and Sorcerer will discuss the future of AI weather forecasting, and answer questions…
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September 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Climate Week NYC is coming fast, and there's a slew of events that CEO @rabernat.bsky.social willl be at: register now for events @brightbangtan.bsky.social and www.geospatialrisk.com are organizing. See m.earthmover.io/events for the list, including a hands-on workshop and the relaunch of GeoNYC!
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September 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
When Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in February 2021, freezing temperatures, still wind, and cloud cover converged into one of the most severe power crises in U.S. history. It was a stark reminder to energy markets that weather can move billions.

Frequent forecasters/ modelers: please join.
From Weather Extremes to Trading Signals
See how modern data workflows let meteorologists deliver market-moving insights to traders with speed and precision.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Zarr is great for big multidimensional data—but not for collaboration. Our latest post by Lindsey Nield shows how Icechunk adds Git-like transactions + version control, so teams can safely share and scale Zarr workflows.
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Multi-Player Mode: Why Teams That Use Zarr Need Icechunk - Earthmover
Icechunk brings Git-like version control to Zarr. Ensure atomic updates, consistent reads, and scalable collaboration for shared datasets.
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August 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Thousands of radar scans, unified as one dataset. In his latest post, Alfonso Ladino-Rincon introduces Radar DataTree: a model that makes radar data analysis-ready, scalable, and versioned for cloud workflows.

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Radar DataTree: Transforming thousands of scans into a single cohesive model - Earthmover
From structure to scale, radar needs a model that organizes complete collections as time-aware, cloud-native datasets. In our second post, we looked at how new standards and open-source tools are tran...
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August 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
August updates: How to access 50 years of ERA5 data with Earthmover, the Icechunk 1.0 release, and an invitation to our August webinar: How To Turn Weather Radar Archives into Usable Science with Xarray DataTree and Zarr
August Newsletter
🌏 50 Years of ERA5 Access in Earthmover: The Arraylake / Icechunk edition is an analysis-ready dataset that retains only the single-level surface fields—18 hourly variables such as 2 m temperature, 10...
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August 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
📡 From Raw Scans to Structured Science — Radar Data Gets a Standard

In our latest blog post, Alfonso Ladino-Rincon explores the progress made with FM-301/CfRadial 2.1, the World Meteorological Org’s official global data standard for weather radar and lidar.

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From Files to Datasets: FM-301 and the Future of Radar Interoperability - Earthmover
At Earthmover, we’re interested in weather radar data for two reasons: We’re obsessed with data like this–which doesn’t fit into either traditional relational databases or into the standard “geospatia...
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July 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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July 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Today at SciPy 2025 we released Icechunk 1.0, an open source package and specification that enables database-style transactions against petabyte-scale array datasets using only cloud object storage as infrastructure. Read about it on our blog earthmover.io/blog/icechun..., or visit earthmover.io
Icechunk 1.0: Production-Grade Cloud-Native Array Storage Is Here - Earthmover
A year ago, we made an important internal decision which set Earthmover on a new course—we decided to refactor and open source our core technology for storing array-based data in the cloud. This took ...
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July 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Watch Naomi's talk from CNG to learn more about how CTrees is using the Earthmover Platform
Naomi Provost's #CNG2025 talk is now live! She shares CTrees_org's approach to transforming high-resolution global forest data from science models into interactive product platforms using cloud-native #geospatial tech
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[CNG 2025] Moving from Science to Product: Making Cloud-Native Geospatial Work for Us–Naomi Provost
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June 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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New #CNG2025 talk alert!
Lindsey Nield & @deepakcherian.bsky.social from @earthmover.io present on Zarr, Icechunk & Xarray for cloud-native #geospatial data cube analysis.
Watch now: youtu.be/DSxmCWfobqQ
[CNG 2025] Zarr, Icechunk & Xarray for Cloud-Native Geospatial Data-cube Analysis – Nield & Cherian
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June 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM