Good luck with the career move.
It might help out to point the researchers towards the trend of publishing scientific papers as Jupyter notebooks if they are not using Jupyter already. There is a lot written about this already but this makes a good read and even points out that 1 of the 3 founders of iPython which later became Jupyter was an oceanographer.
Congratulations! Long ago at 30 yrs old I changed from being an aircraft tech (aka “greaser”) to a solid state controls engineer, so I can empathize.
You are one of my go-to references, assuming you’re THAT Pat David (GIMP and stuff) …
Good luck!
He is indeed that Pat David of GIMP, etc. fame.
Hey! Flattery gets you a free beer if we meet in person! Just sayin’ 
Thank you kind Sir!
In light of the Covid thing, I’ll just get one from the fridge …
I’ve been retired for ten years now. The SDSC Storage Resource Broker (now gone cloud) was a useful tool even then. We stored data in our own home-brewed XML empowered way locally. But also on SRB, which is sort of a hot rod backup mechanism that can be queried in multiple ways.