Under the active coordination of the PI, the team members have held scientific meetings twice per month. The first one as part of the international cycle of seminars on "Satellites, data and the environment" that we have organized (online); the other one to discuss articles, books and publications relevant to the research project. Additionally, we have met at least every two months with the aim to brainstorm about research plans and critically discuss preliminary results, concepts and draft papers. We have also held one to one meetings with each team member whenever necessary to discuss individual research lines and avenues. Finally, we have organized meetings also devoted to practical, methodological and technical issues, such as a training session on digital tools that can assist historical research, such as Zotero and Obsidian, and one on feminist approaches to oral history. These sessions were opened to all members of the Institut d’història de la ciència, also to make the CLIMASAT project relevant at the host institution and expand our research goals, results and ways of doing. Additionally, as part of their training, the PhD candidates have carried out various courses to develop relevant research, writing and presentation skills, as well as to gain knowledge in the fields of history of science, history of technology and environmental history. Also, all the team members have devoted significant time to carry out archival research necessary to get empirical material for their historical analysis. Historical archives such as the national archives of France, Spain and Catalonia, archives of UNESCO, of the oceanographic library in the UK, the European Space Agency and the French Space Agency have been consulted.
In terms of scientific events, in October 2023, the CLIMASAT team members organized the First CLIMASAT workshop. It gathered researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds (history of science, history of technology, environmental history, political ecology, political geography, STS, philosophy of science, cultural anthropology) and specialising in various specific topics (data justice, data access, data diplomacy, data economy, sensors, organizations, labour, etc). All shared an interest in critically examining the processes involved in the production, circulation and use of scientific data, and their epistemic, political and social implications. It served to grasp the historical intersections between between science and technology, finances, regulation, communication, and diplomacy that took place in producing, circulating, and using satellite data. The Second CLIMASAT workshop was co-organized in March 2024 as a follow-up. It was co-organized with team members of another ERC project (ERC COG Neworldata, based in the University of Manchester), who also participated in the First CLIMASAT workshop. It was deliberately much more disciplinary-focused on the history of scientific data, with satellite data playing a central role. As a result of the workshop, PI of both projects started a stronger collaboration aimed to co-edit a joint book on the history of scientific data, tentatively entitled "Data Asymmetries".
Several other communications have been carried out, including at the 10th and 11th European Society for the History of Science, British Society for the History of Science, NASA symposia and many others (see section Dissemination Activities).
