May 27, 2026
The RMBL Data Hub is live
data.rmbl.org is open to everyone — a single home for tools and data to accelerate environmental science in the upper East River watershed.
Notes from the team.
Releases, methods notes, and field updates from the people building these tools.
May 27, 2026
The RMBL Knowledge Commons: A Guide for the Research Community
A guide to the RMBL Knowledge Commons for the research community — what the platform offers, how to use it in your work, and how community curation keeps it trustworthy.
May 27, 2026
A Deep Dive into the SDP Browser
A guide to the Spatial Data Platform and its new no-code browser — how to discover, visualize, and extract from the catalog, and how the browser hands off to the rSDP and pySDP packages.
May 27, 2026
The RMBL Compute Hub: A Deep Dive
A tour of the RMBL Compute Hub — a shared, browser-based JupyterLab/RStudio environment that runs in the cloud next to the data, with the whole RMBL geospatial stack preinstalled.
Apr 22, 2026
pySDP enters pre-release
A native Python client for the Spatial Data Platform — feature-complete with rSDP, with lazy reads via xarray, geopandas, and rasterio.
Mar 15, 2026
Bloom forecast goes public for the 2026 season
A weekly map of wildflower bloom probability for fourteen species across the upper East River watershed, built from long-term phenology records and current-year climate.
Feb 8, 2026
Knowledge Commons crosses 5,000 indexed publications
Hybrid keyword and semantic search across five decades of RMBL-affiliated science, plus 1,400 grey-literature documents and 1,200 datasets.