Now accepting applications for Carpentries instructor training 2021

We are now accepting applications for the Carpentries instructor training workshop happening this May - it is a wonderful learning opportunity for people wanting to develop their teaching skills, t... Read more

Quantifying uncertainty in palaeoecological data

"During the consultancy I learned a great deal about how to program efficiently, implement unit testing, and how seemingly tiny changes to a script can have a great effect on the required time and computer resources."
Subject: 
Earth Science

Improved tracking of land cover changes

James Shepherd wanted to reduce the turnaround time for processing his data, so he applied for a Consultancy project with NeSI research software engineers.
Subject: 
Earth Science
A screenshot of an interpolation simlulation run by researcher Tom Etherington.

Supporting ecological research through enhanced interpolation capability

“I will now be able to make better maps of environmental variables, and hence much better models of species distributions."
Subject: 
Earth Science

RMarkdown for Researchers: Weave together narrative text and code

Creating clear analyses that is reproducible sounds simple. So why do many of us struggle to re-run code that was developed 2, 5, or 10 years ago or find ourselves utterly lost when attempting to f... Read more

Job opportunity: DevOps and Integration Programmer

NeSI has an exciting opportunity available for a DevOps and Integration Programmer. In this role, you'll contribute within a small team of software engineers in product development, translating res... Read more

Women in HPC respond to community feedback for supporting diversity in HPC & eResearch

As part of the eResearch NZ 2021 Conference, the Australasia Chapter of Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) hosted a Birds-of-a-Feather session to share results from its recent community sur... Read more

Highlights from Carpentry Connect 2021: Bringing together New Zealand's digital skills community

Carpentry Connect 2021 was a great success with 40 people joining to learn from and network with fellow Carpentries community members. The event agenda was carefully crafted by a team of local Carp... Read more

FAIR Principles for Research Software - A growing area of interest for the NZ science community

Earlier this month REANNZ, with support from NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa, hosted eResearchNZ 2021. On the second day we held a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session entitled ‘Best Practice for FAIR and S... Read more

eResearch NZ2021: How can the eResearch community continue to ‘Level Up’?

The annual eResearch NZ conference took place both in-person and online for the first time, bringing communities in New Zealand and overseas together through virtual tools and in flexi learning spa... Read more