As part of this year's Figshare Fest NZ event, NeSI Data Product Manager Brian Flaherty was among the invited speakers sharing case study examples and solutions developed for some of today's research data management challenges.
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Multiple NeSI team members travelled to Brisbane, Australia this month to participate in the 2019 eResearch Australasia conference programme, delivering sessions and participating on panels and working groups on topics of community building, digital skills training, and research data management.
On 02 October, the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) announced $6 million of new funding to be allocated to programmes that encourage diversity in science over the next four years. The announcement said MBIE wants to remove the barriers that are slowing down progress in this space and ensure that equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives are prioritised.
NeSI and NIWA are seeking a data scientist or data science engineer to work closely with researchers from a wide range of disciplines such as social, biological, environmental, biomedical and materials science and engineering.The position involves advising and assisting researchers with processing and analysing their datasets efficiently on the advanced HPC platforms and helping them build and optimise complex data pipelines, models, and workflows. You will represent NIWA and NeSI as data science authorities in national and international communities.
On November 6-8, the 2019 Australasian Leadership Computing Symposium (ALCS) is gathering communities from across Australasia to share knowledge and practice within high performance computing (HPC) and high performance data (HPD), as well as across research areas such as astronomy, genomics, geosciences, climate and weather, and materials science.
Data science and machine learning in research emerge as top themes at 2019 Science Coding Conference
This September was the first time NeSI hosted its Science Coding Conference at the University of Canterbury in the garden city of Christchurch. The event was held over 2 days (5th and 6th of September) and a full day of workshops the day before (4th September).
For more than a year, Nooriyah Lohani, NeSI's Research Community Advisor, has been collaborating with Research Software Engineer (RSE) community leaders in New Zealand and Australia to create new opportunities for RSEs to meet, exchange knowledge, and collaborate on methods to create greater recognition and career opportunities.
On Wednesday, September 11th NeSI hosted its second Webinar of the 'Quick Tips' webinar series. This time, attendees learned more about NeSI's national Data Transfer Platform, a
In late July/early August, I travelled to Chicago, Illinois to attend the annual Practices and Experiences in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) Conference.The conference series provides a forum for participants in the research computing community to discuss challenges, opportunities, and solutions in ‘cyberinfrastructure’ (aka eResearch; Advanced Research Computing, Research IT). PEARC19 hosted more than 800 registrants, and more than 100 student attendees.
During 29-30 July, I had the opportunity to represent NeSI and New Zealand at the Australian eResearch Skilled Workforce Summit in Sydney, Australia.
