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To celebrate the Year of Open Science, we highlight our efforts to make AGU journals and books more open, accessible, and inclusive.

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Everything looks ideal for collaboration: interest from community members, a new method for monitoring air quality by scientists, and interest from policymakers. What happens next?

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Community effort to systematically count and categorize trash in the Pinole watershed led to the prioritization of locations and trash types that informed recommendations for local government policy.

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