Authors: Shea A. Hess Webber (Stanford), Lisa Upton (Southwest Research Institute), Todd Hoeksema (Stanford), Dave Lauben (Stanford), Rock Bush (Stanford)

The National Research Council published a report on Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science in 2015. This report identified 7 fundamental challenges that large research teams, such as the NASA DRIVE Science Centers (DSC), might face including: high diversity of membership, deep knowledge integration, large size, goal misalignment, permeable boundaries, geographic dispersion, and high task interdependence. In Phase I, the COFFIES DSC formed a Center Effectiveness Team (CET) to identify and help overcome these and other unique challenges, including those introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic. COFFIES has now been selected to proceed into Phase II! We will present the CET initiatives and implementations, review some lessons learned for future large-scale science collaborations, and give an overview of COFFIES science.