PICO
Across the geosciences, from seismology and geophysics to hydrology, environmental sciences, and beyond, research increasingly depends on sophisticated software for data analysis, modelling, and interpretation. The rapid development and diversification of these tools create exciting opportunities, but also present challenges in maintaining code quality, ensuring ease of use and comprehensive documentation, achieving sustainability and reproducibility, and enabling seamless interoperability across datasets and disciplines. Addressing these challenges is essential for producing reliable, reusable, and trustworthy scientific results.
This PICO session invites contributions that present software tools, workflows, and platforms that have advanced geoscience research. We welcome:
● New or updated toolboxes, software packages, and workflows that enhance data access, analysis, visualization, modelling, or interpretation in geosciences.
● Case studies demonstrating real-world impact of software in research and operations.
● Methodologies for software testing, continuous integration, versioning, upgrades, deployment, and sustainability.
● Interoperability solutions that enable tools and datasets to work together across disciplines.
Sharing of your resources, reusable workflows, and best practices is strongly encouraged to raise the overall quality, transparency, and reusability of research software. Live demonstrations, videos, and interactive examples are welcome (supplementary materials can be hosted on the EGU26 platform for access after the conference).
We warmly invite geoscientists, software developers, FAIR and Open Science ambassadors and researchers to participate in this session and share their experiences, insights, and solutions. Join us to help build a stronger, more collaborative, and future-ready geoscience software ecosystem!