Jana Makar

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

NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa rolling out new bioinformatics and genomics training opportunities

NeSI is pleased to be partnering with Genomics Aotearoa to deliver the following bioinformatics and genomics training opportunities for New Zealand researchers: Genomics Data Carpentry Workshop16-1... Read more

Crashes and quakes at NZ Research Software Engineering Hackathon 2020

“The driving force wasn’t so much the problem itself, but the need to share expertise across New Zealand. We wanted to elevate the software community’s skills and our own.”
A close up view of rain drops hitting a road.

Predicting precipitation using machine learning

"NeSI experts introduced new technical ideas and tools which we will use and implement elsewhere."
Subject: 
Earth Science
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Developing bioinformatic approaches to epigenetics and health

"Setting up EWAS pipeline for global access is something I would not have been able to do myself."

New partnership to develop powerful platform for New Zealand agritech AI research

A freshly inked scientific partnership is developing new AI computing power and technology to meet demand from Bay of Plenty-based scientists for faster processing of complex research data.The init... Read more

New additions to the NeSI Team: Wes Harrell and Matt Bixley

Please join us in welcoming the newest members to the NeSI team!Attribution: Wes HarrellWes comes to NeSI most recently from contract work at Victoria University of Wellington and some US-based Uni... Read more

WHPCAusNZ launches newsletter and calls for community ideas to set 2021 priorities

During 2021, the Women in HPC Australasia Chapter will focus on coordinating and delivering 1-2 key activities or initiatives to improve diversity, inclusion, balance and belonging in HPC and eRese... Read more