Announcing IceChunkCoin: The World's First Multi-Dimensional, Chunk-Native Blockchain Asset
Today we’re thrilled to announce IceChunkCoin, the world’s first hyper-dimensional, chunk-native blockchain asset.
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
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Announcing the Earthmover Data Marketplace
At Earthmover, we’re on a mission to empower people to use scientific data to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. With today’s launch of the Earthmover Data Marketplace, we’re taking a huge step towards that goal. We’re launching the marketplace with a fantastic group of data providers, including
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
I/O-Maxing Tensors in the Cloud
The critical role of I/O in data science and AI/ML For both analytics and AI workloads, fast I/O is the foundation of good performance. Most of these workloads involve fluxing a large amount of data from storage into RAM, and then to the CPU or GPU. In the cloud, where data reside on object storage,
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Building the Future of Scientific Data at the Zarr Summit
Next week we are convening the Zarr community in Rome, Italy for a week of fast-paced collaboration and conversation. Given the recent acceleration on Zarr adoption across major data providers in Weather Forecasting, Earth Observation and Bioimaging, this in-person event is critical for aligning sta
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Earthmover’s $7.2M Seed Round led by Lowercarbon Capital
Today we announced Earthmover’s seed round fundraise, led by the amazing folks at Lowercarbon Capital, with participation from Costanoa Ventures (our pre-seed investor) and Preston-Werner Ventures (GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner). Between Lowercarbon’s deep understanding of our target customer
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
The 3 Key Optimizations That Cut the Cost of AI Weather Forecasts by 90%
Note: this is the blog post version of a webinar we gave last month, summarized for brevity. At Earthmover, we’re closely following the AI revolution in weather forecasting. Until recently, the only way to make an accurate global-scale weather forecast was to run an expensive, physics-based numerica
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Earthmover Sponsors Ocean Hack Week: Empowering the Open Science Community
Earthmover is proud to announce its sponsorship of Ocean Hack Week 2025, continuing a tradition of supporting hackweeks that have long served as vibrant spaces for the Pangeo Community to meet, share ideas, and innovate on solving real-world scientific challenges. Earthmover founders Ryan and Joe ha
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Icechunk 1.0: Production-Grade Cloud-Native Array Storage Is Here
A year ago, we made an important internal decision which set Earthmover on a new course—we decided to refactor and open source our core technology for storing array-based data in the cloud. This took the form of the Icechunk project, an open source package and specification enabling database-style t
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Meet the Earthmover Team at the Cloud Native Geospatial Conference 2025!
The Earthmover team is heading to Snowbird, Utah for the Cloud Native Geospatial (CNG) Conference 2025 this week. For our part, we’ll be there to talk about our recent open-source work on Xarray, Zarr, and Icechunk – including leading a 3-hour workshop – and to spread the word about the Earthmover
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Announcing Flux: The API Layer for Geospatial Data Delivery
TLDR Earthmover’s new product–Flux–adds a whole new layer to our platform. Flux allows you to serve geospatial data from Arraylake via standard API protocols–including WMS (web map service), EDR (environmental data retrieval), and DAP–enabling frictionless integration with GIS applications, web appl
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Fundamentals: Tensors vs. Tables
At Earthmover, we are building the cloud platform for multidimensional array data (a.k.a. tensors). While the need for such a platform is obvious to practitioners in weather, climate, and geospatial data science (not to mention AI, where tensors reign supreme), folks from the mainstream data world o
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Solving NASA's Cloud Data Dilemma: How Icechunk Revolutionizes Earth Data Access
Summary NASA has been migrating over 100 petabytes of data from on prem systems to the cloud for the last several years and is now able to focus on measures of efficiency that were not possible before. Earthmover and Development Seed worked with NASA to pilot Earthmover’s open-source Icechunk tensor
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
How Our Customers Use NOAA Data
NOAA is under threat The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is one of the world’s leading scientific agencies. NOAA has a three part mission: 1. To understand and predict changes in climate, weather, ocean and coasts. 2. To share that knowledge and information with others. 3.
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Zarr-Python 3 is here!
Note: This post was originally published on the Zarr developer blog. After more than a year of development, we’re thrilled to announce the release of Zarr-Python 3! This major release brings full support for the Zarr v3 specification, including the new chunk-sharding extension, major performance enh
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Announcing Icechunk!
TLDR We are excited to announce the release of the Icechunk storage engine, a new open-source library and specification for the storage of multidimensional array (a.k.a. tensor) data in cloud object storage. Icechunk works together with Zarr, augmenting the Zarr core data model with features that en
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Case Study: ALIVE at The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Background The University of Wisconsin-Madison is home to a research team called Advanced Baseline Imager Live Imaging of Vegetated Ecosystems (ALIVE). The team, working remotely and led by Prof. Paul Stoy, PhD, is building a gradient-boosting regression model using geostationary satellites to estim
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
A Serverless Approach to Building Planetary-Scale EO Datacubes in Zarr
This is a blog version of a webinar that took place on April 16, 2024. Here’s a video of that webinar: Earth Observation satellites generate massive volumes of data about our planet, and these data are vital for confronting global challenges. Satellite imagery is commonly distributed as individual “
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Toward Zarr-Python 3.0
Note: This post was originally published on the Zarr developer blog. We released Zarr-Python 2.18.0 this week. Although this release was quite light in terms of user-facing changes, it represents the beginning of a new phase for the project. In this post, we’ll walk through our plan for Zarr-Python
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Case Study: Sylvera
Situation Overview Sylvera rates projects in the voluntary carbon market with the goal of enabling their customers to invest in the most meaningful initiatives. In order to produce these ratings, Sylvera relies on satellite imagery from providers such as Copernicus, USGS, and NASA. Prior to adopting
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Cloud native data loaders for machine learning using Zarr and Xarray
We set up a high-performance PyTorch dataloader using data stored as Zarr in the cloud Machine learning has become essential in the utilization of weather, climate, and geospatial data. Sophisticated models such as GraphCast, ClimaX, and Clay are emerging within these domains. The advancement of the
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Earthmover and Pangeo at AGU 2023
December is here, and that means that thousands of Earth System Scientists are getting ready for the annual pilgrimage to AGU! At my first AGU in 2011, I was a fresh-faced grad student, excited to present my latest research on modeling Southern Ocean circulation. Since then, my relationship with thi
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Arraylake Now Available in Private Beta
At Earthmover, we believe that scientific data are key to solving humanity’s greatest challenges. And we know that scientists today are struggling with tools that don’t understand scientific data formats and data models. For the past year, we’ve been hard at work building a platform to transform how
Ryan Abernathey
CEO & Co-founder
Earthmover is hiring
Note: the two founding engineer positions have now been filled. Checkout our jobs page for current opportunities. How do we best utilize software and data to tackle our planet’s most urgent challenges? Being part of the answer to this question is why I am so excited about what we’re building at Eart
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CEO & Co-founder
Why we started Earthmover
Earthmover is an early-stage startup building a platform for scientific data analytics in the cloud. Earthmover, an early-stage startup, is building a platform for scientific data analytics in the cloud. Our mission is to empower our customers to use scientific data to address our planet’s most urge
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