Jana Makar

Rising Stars: A Webinar on Early Career Researchers’ Conference Experiences in Data

On Tuesday 27 February the World Data Systems' Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network is hosting a webinar to share the firsthand experiences of its ECR Network co-chairs – Maja Dolinar, Claire Rye,... Read more

Figure: Surface air temperature (deg. K) modelled in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica

Building software solutions for studying air–ice–ocean interactions

"We are very grateful to the NeSI team for helping us to automatically build our coupled model in a container, allowing us to be resilient and circumvent any platform changes/updates."
Subject: 
Earth Science
Results from ML-based exploration of optical rotation prediction, with the identification of influential dihedral angles highlighted in the molecular structure on the right.

Applying machine learning to uncover molecular property insights

"I appreciate their methodical approach and the computational tools they were able to introduce to the project, which were essential in enabling the research."
Subject: 
Chemistry

Job opportunity: Senior HPC Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer

NeSI is seeking a Senior HPC Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer to join our passionate team on a full-time, permanent basis. Applications must be submitted online by the closing date of 17 February 202... Read more

Job opportunity: DevOps & Integration Programmer

NeSI is looking for an experienced DevOps and Integration Programmer to join our team on a fixed term (6 months) basis. You will design and implement a suite of open-source products underpinning an... Read more

Nisha Ghatak, NeSI Training Lead, elected to global training community Board of Directors

Nisha Ghatak, NeSI Research Communities Advisor and Training Lead, has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Carpentries, a global community focused on teaching coding and data science skil... Read more

View of the Earth from space, with a binary grid overlaid. Image by Yassay, Pixabay.

Improving the vector field representation in next generation climate simulations

"The benefits are of particular relevance to the regridding of atmospheric data on the globe."
Subject: 
Earth Science
Photo of stock in a fenced dry area.

New tool revolutionising drought forecasts

“This tool enables us to give more frequent and district-level predictions of rainfall, dryness, and drought. Providing advanced warning of future dry spells will be invaluable.”
Subject: 
Earth Science
Georgina Rae (NeSI) and Ben Taylor (AgResearch) presenting on the NeSI and AgResearch partnership.

Reflections on designing and delivering a future-focused eResearch Platform

Both NeSI and AgResearch are discovering and learning about how best to support and develop a rich national eResearch ecosystem.
Footbridge damaged by flood, Te Auaunga creek walkway. Auckland 28 January 2023. Photo by Paul Left.

A scalable digital elevation builder for flood mapping

"NeSI is really the only platform for producing our hydrologic condition digital elevation models at the national scale."
Subject: 
Earth Science