Dear
Experimentalists,
We
hope everyone is having a great start to the New Year. We have exciting news to get 2016 started on
the right foot!
This
issue contains the following:
- 2015 Year in Review
- Events for 2016
- Three easy ways to get involved in EarthCube
- SEAD 2.0 Launch Webinar
2015
Year in Review
2015 has been a great year for SEN. In case you missed some
of it, here are a few highlights. We
presented an invited talk at the 46th annual Binghamton
Geomorphology Symposium with a corresponding paper in Geomorphology. We also held our first graduate student and
early career travel grant contest for funds to AGU. This contest is the first of many that SEN
will be funding. We started
broadcasting live experiments using YouTube so that scientists from around the
globe could participate in data collection. At the AGU Fall Meeting this year,
we spread the word about SEN and the Wiki by handing out buttons and
stickers. The Wiki (www.sedexp.net) saw many helpful updates as
well as 81 entries to the Knowledge Base with 21 new accounts created on
sedexp.net. For more information on
these events and others, please check out the archive on the SEN blog.
Events
for 2016
SEN has many exciting events planned for 2016. Here are a few that are currently in the
works:
CSDMS/SEN Annual Meeting
SEN will be cohosting the Community
Surface Dynamics Modeling System’s (CSDMS) annual meeting being held on May
17-19th, 2016 in Boulder, Colorado.
This year’s theme is Capturing
Climate Change. Keynote talks and
hands-on clinics will focus on “advances in simulating the imprint of climate
change on the land and seascapes, including the processes that influence them”.
For more information or to register, please follow this link.
SEN
Travel Grant Contest to CSDMS/SEN Annual Meeting
SEN is sponsoring a data-utilization contest for
graduate-student and early-career geoscience modelers who feel passionate about
advancing science through experimental data sharing and reuse. The top four
winners of the data-utilization contest will have all travel and registration
costs paid for. For more information or to register, please follow this link.
More Live Experiments
SEN will be broadcasting more live
experiments this year. Please stay tuned
to the SEN twitter account (@sedimentexp) and the blog for updates and
links to live feeds. If you are
interested in broadcasting your experiments, please email us (sedimentexp@gmail.com)
and we can help you get set up.
Three easy ways to get involved in EarthCube
Much of the funding from NSF's EarthCube program goes to
projects developing technologies to aid in geoscience research. Below are
three ways you can learn more about, get involved with, and inform the future
of these projects.
Not sure if EarthCube
projects are useful for you?
Check out the newly
created "EarthCube Tools
for Doing Geoscience" monthly
webinar series (goo.gl/1E6gEJ).
An upcoming webinar on Friday, 1/22 at 2 PM EST (11 AM PST) will describe OntoSoft's efforts to
train scientists in writing "Geoscience Papers of the Future" that
document data and methods associated with published research.
Found a new technology of
interest and want to learn more?
If you are a graduate
student or early career scientist, apply for an EarthCube "Visiting Scholar Travel
Grant." This will pay for you to visit the institution
developing the technology to learn more about applying it to your
research. More information can be found here: goo.gl/UEydTb.
Feel like EarthCube isn't
meeting your technical needs?
Submit a Use Case. This is basically a
formal description of the technical needs for your research project. Take
two minutes to fill out a simple survey (goo.gl/As9NRh),
then a member of EarthCube will follow up with you to conduct a phone
interview. The Use Cases will help to inform the funding and development
of future EarthCube projects, so here's your chance to steer EarthCube toward
building technologies that are useful for you.
SEAD 2.0 Launch webinar (1/21)
SEN has been partnering with SEAD ("Sustainable Environment
Actionable Data") to link our SEN Knowledge Base with their technical
tools for storing data and making it discoverable. SEAD is launching an
upgraded version 2.0 and is hosting a webinar to describe their new
release. The webinar will be held on Thursday, 1/21, at
1:30 PM EST (10:30 AM PST). More information is available here: http://sead-data.net/webinar-introduction-to-sead-2-0-the-next-generation-of-sead-data-services/
For up to date information about SEN, please check out our
blog at http://sedimentexperiments.blogspot.com/
and follow us on Twitter (@sedimentexp).
Happy experimenting,
The Sediment Experimentalist Network
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