The prize, which was delivered as part of GW4 Open Research Week, aims to celebrate and recognise the excellent work of researchers in making their research more accessible to all, thereby increasing its potential impact. The shortlisted applicants were selected to attend a cross-Alliance awards event, where they presented their entries to members of the public, academics and representatives from across the four universities where the winners were announced.

The OpenGHG project is a community platform for greenhouse gas data science which has been developed within the ACRG to support research into atmospheric-informed emissions estimation. It does this by standardising and categorising complex data products from different sources which can feed into systems for inferring emissions. This allows robust, traceable pipelines to be developed for data analysis and visualisation. 

Based on these capabilities, OpenGHG now underpins a UK-wide programme that aims to provide national low-latency greenhouse gas emissions estimates and a public-facing emissions dashboard.