New Opportunities – Spring 2018

We’ve been busy lately, including following up on the Data Rescue and Data Integration workshops with more materials to share (you can already access most of them here!), and wanted to share some new opportunities.

EarthCube All Hands Meeting

The EarthCube All Hands Meeting will be held June 6-8, 2018 in Washington, DC (our abstracts here). We are very excited to be able to bring a coral-reef-science guest or two to this meeting through reimbursement of travel and registration costs. Two people who work with coral reef data from a repository perspective will also attend with us as part of the CRESCYNT community. Please email us if you’re interested! (Registration is $250 before May 11)

CoralNET Software Update

CoralNET software for automated analysis of coral reef benthic imagery is getting a revision, and its developers would like your input. What feature improvements and new developments would you like to see? Add your feedback to this thread. More background here. (If you haven’t tried it yet, this is the time to do it – fresh users are a great source of important feedback.)

Nat’l Academies Workshop on Interventions to Increase Resilience of Coral Reefs

Attendance is free and open to the public, online or in person.

View the agenda and register.

 

>>>Go to the blog Masterpost or the CRESCYNT website or NSF EarthCube.<<<

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Cyber Tools and Resources for Research and Analysis – Workshop at ASLO

AGENDA with LINKS and REMOTE LOGIN information at bit.ly/cybertools-aslo

Join us for a great workshop!

• When: Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm HST – PLUS optional visit to the LAVA visualization lab – back to convention center by 5:00 pm)
• Where: Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, HI, room 323 B
• How: email omeier@hawaii.edu to reserve your space (and your LUNCH).
• Cost to you: None, thanks to generous workshop guides & NSF EarthCube CRESCYNT funding
• Not registered yet? We still want you (but can’t promise lunch or transportation)

Can’t attend in person? Join the workshop online! (starts 11:00am PST, 2:00pm EST)

WORKSHOP TOPICS AND PRESENTERS:

• EarthCube: A Community-Driven Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences

Mohan Ramamurthy, UCAR [video]


• ECO-GEO Virtual Machine – an environmental genomics workbench

Elisha Wood-Charlson, UH Manoa [video]


• Multidisciplinary Challenges in Ocean Science Research

Jay Pearlman, J&F Ent, U Colo [video]


• SeaView: Connecting Ocean Data Repositories with Science and Visualization
  

Stephen Diggs, Scripps [video]


• Cyber Visualization Tools

Alberto Gonzalez, UH Manoa [video]


• Geoscience Papers of the Future (digital tools training)

Daniel Garijo, USC [video]


• More Cyber Tools for Research – the Toolbox

Ouida Meier, UH Manoa [video]


• EarthCube Integration and Test Environment

Emily Law, JPL [video]


• Workflow Assembly (hands-on conceptual assembly of data and tools)

Ouida Meier & participants


• Trip – visit the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications

Jason Leigh, UH Manoa

If you’re attending ASLO (Association for Sciences in Limnology and Oceanography) in Hawaii or will be in Honolulu on Feb. 26th and care about better ways to collaborate, solve data and workflow challenges, or take the next steps in the relentless digital revolution, join us in person!

We’re excited to be able to offer this workshop as a real-time webinar – please participate remotely if you can! We have an amazing lineup of presenters and workshop guides. Don’t miss out!

Funding gratefully acknowledged from NSF EarthCube CRESCYNT Coral Reef Science and Cyberinfrastructure Network, Ruth D. Gates, PI (crescynt.org)

Update: original post updated with slide links.

CRESCYNT at ICRS 2016

CRESCYNT IS AT #ICRS2016 – International Coral Reef Symposium in Honolulu, Hawaii!

EVENTS:

WORKSHOP – Cyber Tools and Resources for Coral Reef Research and Analysis
Sun. June 19 8:30am-4:00pm, Hawaii Convention Center rm 314
(breakfast, lunch provided – register here)
ask about materials / future webinars if you miss
sponsored by EarthCube CRESCYNT – some seats still open!

CRESCYNT Node Coordinators Meeting
Mon June 20 6:00-8:30pm, Hawaii Convention Center 307 A/B

OPEN MEETING – CRESCYNT Participants with Node Coordinators
Wed June 22, 11:30am-12:45pm, Hawaii Convention Center 307A/B
(bring your ICRS lunch – we’ll have ice cream)
OPEN TO ALL – come if you’re interested!

DISCUSSION & SYNTHESIS SESSION: Emerging Technologies for Reef Science and Conservation
Fri June 24, 9:30am-3:45pm, Hawaii Convention Center 312
(Discussion 11-11:30am. CRESCYNT at 2pm)

UPDATE: Find all the meeting abstracts in this 414-page pdf book

 

>>>Go to the blog Masterpost or the CRESCYNT website or NSF EarthCube.<<<

Successful Forum at Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans – iSamples, CRESCYNT, & SeaView

The topic was:  Physical Samples in the Ocean Sciences. It was great to co-host with these terrific EarthCube groups – thanks to iSamples for providing lunch!  Details:

This event was jointly hosted by the EarthCube groups:
iSamples Research Coordination Network,
CRESCYNT Coral Reef Science & Cyberinfrastructure Network, and the
SeaView Integrative Activity.

OSM attendees were invited, and we had a great discussion over lunch; we were also pleased to be joined by EarthCube’s Marine Annually-Resolved Proxy Archives group.

The discussion provided opportunities for researchers to learn about these collaborative groups, how they support digital and physical sample management, options for sample citation in publications, links to related content such as field expeditions, datasets, and ORCIDs for investigators, and to tell us about YOUR challenges with your sample collections, their curation, documentation, and preservation, and how you want to access and visualize data related to samples. The forum was also an opportunity to check out existing tools that can help you manage your samples. Participants of all levels and from all disciplines were encouraged to attend – and did. You can register your physical samples with SESAR to obtain IGSNs for unique sample identification.

On a related note – just prior to the Ocean Sciences Meeting, CRESCYNT was able to attend a workshop offered by SeaView, and we admire the work  they’re doing to get data facilities, toolmakers, and domain scientists in the same room and on the same page in order to integrate disparate datasets. It’s an ambitious and groundbreaking practical project, and it was impressive to see people begin to address and solve some of the inevitable challenges of metadata interoperability.

We also had a great time hanging out at the EarthCube table periodically  and talking with so many creative people who came by: scientists, tech people, underwater filmmakers(!), students ambitious for innovation…  The conversations were a reminder that EarthCube is all about people and open sharing and integration of ideas.

 

>>>Go to the blog Masterpost or the CRESCYNT website or NSF EarthCube.<<<

CRESCYNT at Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016 – and nearly 100 coral reef presentations!

The 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting is coming up in New Orleans 21-26 February 2016, and we hope to see you there! There are 97 oral and poster session presentations scheduled with CORAL in the title (plus a lunchtime presentation from CRESCYNT, making 98), and we hope to talk with coral reef researchers about YOUR needs and priorities for data, analysis, and cyberinfrastructure.

1 – Joint lunchtime discussion held with iSamples, CRESCYNT, and SeaView on Monday, Feb. 22, 12:30-2:00pm. Lunch will be provided! Register at http://bit.ly/1QFHLd1.

2 – CRESCYNT coral reef RCN will be at the EarthCube exhibitor booth 507 periodically, including Tuesday, Feb. 23, 9:30am – 2:00pm and on other days by appointment. Come by at that time or any time to fill out a CRESCYNT priority survey and learn more about EarthCube.

3 – Please email us at crescyntrcn@gmail.com to set something up. We’d love to talk with you while at OSM (or any other time).

The chart below shows when the coral-related oral papers and poster sessions will take place. Hope to see you there!

Coral Presentations at OSM 2016

>>>Go to the blog Masterpost or the CRESCYNT website or NSF EarthCube.<<<