Summer 2016 Newsletter
Dear Experimentalists,
We have a few
important events and updates we want to let you know about.
Here is a summary of the items in this
newsletter:
1.
Joint
CSDMS/SEN Meeting Summary
2.
Future
of SEN
3.
Updates
to SEN Knowledge Base
4.
Upcoming
SEN Events
1.
Joint CSDMS/SEN Meeting Summary
This year SEN
cohosted the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System’s (CSDMS) annual
meeting held on May 17-19th, 2016 in Boulder, Colorado, with over
120 people in attendance. SEN’s own Wonsuck
Kim presented a keynote talk about “Overcoming Grand Challenges by
Collaboration between Experimentalists and Modelers.” SEN also hosted a clinic to demonstrate the
experimental data lifecycle and promote experimentalist-modeler collaboration
through the use of the Knowledge Base.
Through this clinic we were able to obtain community feedback on the
Knowledge Base site (www.sedexp.net),
which we have already started to implement (see section 3 of newsletter for
more details).
2. Future of SEN
We are excited to announce that
SEN will officially continue through July 2017 and we are looking for ideas of
what we should do in the coming year and into the extended future. Please send ideas and feedback to sedimentexp@gmail.com.
3. Updates
to SEN Knowledge Base
Based on the
feedback we collected during the CSDMS Meeting, we have made a lot of exciting
improvements to the SEN Knowledge Base (www.sedexp.net). Here are a few of the highlights:
·
Improved
search functionality
·
Improved
workflow for creating entry process
We
encourage you check out these updates and post entries on your experiments!
4. Upcoming SEN Events
SEN has many
exciting events planned for Summer 2016.
SEN at SIESD
SEN
will be presenting at this year’s NCED’s Summer Institute on Earth Surface
Dynamics being held August 11-22 at University of Minnesota. The institute is “designed to engage young
scientists [by] integrating theory, laboratory experiments, numerical modeling,
and fieldwork.” Raleigh Martin will be
representing SEN by presenting a lecture and leading an interactive group
activity on best data management practices.
EarthCube All Hands Meeting
EarthCube
is hosting its annual All Hands meeting on July 6th through 8th
in Denver, Colorado. SEN will be in
attendance to update the community on our progress and to connect with other
EarthCube funded projects.
More Live Experiments
SEN
will be broadcasting more live experiments.
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.
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
