SEN at CSDMS 2018 Annual Meeting

SEN will be organizing a clinic titled "Wrangling your Research Data" at the upcoming annual meeting of CSDMS (Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System) on May 22-24, 2018 at CU Boulder. As we did for the past two years, we will provide an introduction on how to use the SEN-KB (knowledge base) resource and the associated SEAD (Sustainable Data Actionable Environment) data sharing platform. We will be working together to contribute new entries to SEN-KB and to evaluate the usefulness of existing entries. At the CSDMS SEN-KB clinic, we will also briefly discuss ideas for the future of data sharing in the sedimentary research community. If you are interested in attending the CSDMS annual meeting and our clinic, we have funding to support a limit number of attendees. Please email us at sedimentexp@gmail.com for more information.

New Research Using SEN Data

A new article in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface investigates island formation on deltas.  The article titled "Island Formation Resulting from Radially Symmetric Flow Expansion" authored by John Shaw,  Kimberly Miller, and Brandon McElroy, utilizes new experimental data as well as data published on the SEN Knowledge Base.  More information about the research and its results can be found on John Shaw's Blog:

https://medium.com/@john.burnham.shaw/a-recipe-for-island-creation-b5ed321c045

Experimentalist of the Month: Hajime Naruse

Experimentalist of the Month: 

Hajime Naruse

Kyoto University 

1. How did you first get involved with SEN?

I participated in the first SEN meeting and since then I have been
involved with SEN.

2. What different types of experiments have you worked with?

I have worked with experiments of self-accelerating turbidity
currents, bedforms formed by turbidity currents in Fr-supercritical
condition, grain-fabric formation using rice grains, and inception
process of submarine channel-levee system.

3. What is a favorite memory of yours in the lab?

In 2007, I was working on a self-accelerating turbidity current
experiment with Octavio Sequeiros at the University of Illinois. We
were very excited about the results and continued until 2 AM on the
last day I stayed at UIUC. After that, we resumed the experiment from
3 o'clock in the morning and I left the United States at 5 o'clock in
the morning. In other words, I had an hour to clean up the apartment.

4. What do you hope SEN will help the experimental community to achieve?

I expect SEN to be a portal that makes it easy to refer experimental
data and methodologies as much as possible. I think that SEN's
important mission is to facilitate communications between researchers.
Also, I would be happy if we could share the way to obtain
experimental materials which may be difficult to find, such as special
types of plastic particles.