🧊 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!

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"

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...

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...

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...

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. earthmover.io/blog/scienti...

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...

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...

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

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

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. earthmover.io/blog/from-10...

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.

A fortuitous start to @climateweeknyc.bsky.social: our $7.2M seed round makes the news! techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/e...

#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...

#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=...

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!

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.

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. earthmover.io/blog/multi-p...

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. earthmover.io/blog/radar-s...

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

📡 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. earthmover.io/blog/from-fi...

Are you a maritime professional who witnessed the recent tsunami in California (7/29/25)? If so, please consider filling out this survey. Thanks! survey123.arcgis.com/share/76979d...

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

Watch Naomi's talk from CNG to learn more about how CTrees is using the Earthmover Platform

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

Our latest fundamentals blog post provides an overview of @zarr.dev and its open-source ecosystem. Read more: earthmover.io/blog/what-is...

Register bit.ly/4mCCRSW for our upcoming webinar to learn about the different APIs available with Flux and how they can be used to build interactive and informative web applications for weather data products.

𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑐𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠? Icechunk stores only new or changed chunks for each version —no redundant copies or rewrites. You get instant time travel, branching, and efficient updates, all with negligible storage overhead. More: bit.ly/3F1XFST

Our small but mighty team has spent decades wrangling scientific data in academia and industry. Along the way, we’ve spotted the same anti-patterns cropping up everywhere: data swamps, code duplication, bespoke and fragile pipelines, and gatekeepers.

1/ Our team just got back from an inspiring week at the @cloudnativegeo.org conference in Snowbird, Utah, and one thing is clear: 𝐙𝐚𝐫𝐫 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥.

👋 Stop by our booth at @cloudnativegeo.org to say hi to our team, see a demo of our platform, and pick up some stickers! #CNG2025

📣 Our team is heading to the @cloudnativegeo.org Conference in Snowbird, Utah. We’ll be sharing our latest open-source work on Xarray, Zarr, VirtualiZarr, Icechunk, and leading a hands-on workshop, 𝑍𝑎𝑟𝑟, 𝐼𝑐𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑘, & 𝑋𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐶𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑-𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑎𝑡𝑎-𝑐𝑢𝑏𝑒 𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑠. Read more: bit.ly/4lRWNAJ

1/ 🚨 New Blog Post Alert: "𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐼𝑐𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝐶𝑙𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒́𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒" 🏦🔁 👉 Read it here: earthmover.io/blog/learnin...

1/ 💡 Our latest blog post in the fundamentals series, written by @tegnicholas.bsky.social, demystifies cloud-optimized scientific data formats! Read more: earthmover.io/blog/fundame...

1/ Today we are launching Flux, a powerful new addition to the Earthmover platform. Flux is a high-performance gateway for exploring, querying, and visualizing geospatial data via standards-compliant APIs (EDR, WMS, and OPeNDAP).

📣 Blog post alert! 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝟑'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. This technical post by @functionth.bsky.social dives deep into the internals of how S3 shards data, showing that distributed Icechunk can easily perform 230,000 object reads/sec and beyond. earthmover.io/blog/explori...

⭐ We just released the first post in our Fundamentals series. This one is called 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐯𝐬. 𝐓𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 - 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚. earthmover.io/blog/tensors...

1/ 🚀 Solving #NASA ’s cloud data dilemma: Icechunk unlocks 100x faster access to archival data formats We're thrilled to publish results from our pilot project with NASA and @developmentseed.org to enable high-performance cloud-native access for NASA’s 100s of petabytes of Earth observation data.

Register to attend our team's workshop at @cloudnativegeo.org! The workshop will teach attendees how to use the @zarr.dev data format model for cloud-native geospatial datacube analysis. 🗓️ Apr 30-May 2 📍Snowbird, Utah 🔗 Register here: 2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org

Join our upcoming webinar to learn about our new product, Flux. Flux hosts standards-compliant WMS, EDR, and OPeNDAP endpoints, allowing seamless integration between Arraylake data and other tools, including web maps, GIS applications, and even Excel spreadsheets. Register here: bit.ly/4kEGeaV

1/ As a data platform company, we get a unique view of how other companies use data. In light of the recent cuts at @noaa.gov, our CEO, @rabernat.bsky.social, reached out to our customers to get their perspective on the value of NOAA’s data and services.

Denver folks — join us for a Geospatial Happy Hour on Wednesday, March 12th at 7 PM MST. Come enjoy drinks, tacos, discussing geospatial data, and meeting the Earthmover team. Register: lu.ma/o6r39p6j

We’re thrilled to welcome @tegnicholas.bsky.social to the team! Tom is a prolific contributor to @xarray.bsky.social and @pangeo.io. He created Xarray Datatree and VirtualiZarr. Tom is working as a Forward Engineer, supporting our customers and the broader open-source community.

1/ Check out our latest blog post earthmover.io/blog/xarray-... to learn about the dramatic improvement and performance of Xarray’s Zarr backend. We achieved improved the “time to first byte” metric, building on Zarr-Python’s new asyncio internals.

Register for tomorrow’s webinar, Data Version Control for Arrays with Icechunk. bit.ly/3WVPSf2 @rabernat.bsky.social will discuss Icechunk’s application in AI/ML model development, how it adds safety + flexibility to data pipelines, & how it enables git-style version control to Zarr Arrays + Groups

Join our webinar, Data Version Control for Arrays with #Icechunk. @rabernat.bsky.social will explain how Icechunk’s transactions, snapshots, tags, + branches can add safety & flexibility to data pipelines and workflows. Register here: bit.ly/3WVPSf2

Excited to welcome @earthmover.io as a sponsor for CNG Conference 2025! They join NASA, @overturemaps.bsky.social, @opengeospatial.bsky.social & more in making this event possible. 🗣️ Have a talk idea? Submit now! 🎟️ Early bird tickets still available! 🫱🏾‍🫲🏿 Become a sponsor! 2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org

NYC folks — @rabernat.bsky.social will be leading a technical workshop, Navigating Weather and Climate Data, on Tuesday as part of the #GeospatialRiskSummit. Ryan will teach attendees the current state-of-the-art technology for analyzing weather and climate data and share visions of the future.

Stop by booth 353 to chat with our team and grab some stickers! #AMS2025

We’re thrilled to announce the release of @zarr.dev-Python 3! This major release brings full support for Zarr v3 specification, including the new chunk-sharding extension, major performance enhancements, and a thoroughly modernized codebase. Read more: earthmover.io/blog/zarr3-r...