August 2016 Newsletter
Dear Experimentalists,
We have a few important events and
updates we want to let you know about.
This issue contains the following:
- SEN Receives Award!
- CSDMS-SEN Meeting Recap
- Upcoming Webinars
- EarthCube All Hands Meeting Summary
- Selected Recent SEN Knowledge Base Entries
1.
SEN Receives Award!
The Geoscience
Information Society Best Paper Committee chose a paper by the SEN leadership
for their 2016 award. The paper,
published in Geomorphology and entitled “Data Management, sharing, and reuse in
experimental geomorphology: Challenges, strategies, and scientific
opportunities”, can be found here.
One of the award
selection committee members wrote:
“I think it addresses an important topic for
both scientists and librarians/libraries, it covers the needs and challenges of
this topic, proposes guidelines/suggestions, addresses incentives and training,
and discusses the importance of data publication in the scientific process. I
also feel that the authors did a great job reviewing the literature including
research in their scientific field and research in the library and data science
literature”
This is the
Geoscience Information Society’s 50th Anniversary and will be presented during
the GSA Annual Meeting in Denver.
2. CSDMS-SEN Meeting Recap
This year SEN
co-hosted the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System’s (CSDMS) annual
meeting held on May 17-19th, 2016 in Boulder, Colorado, with over
120 people were in attendance. SEN’s own
Wonsuck Kim presented a keynote talk (click link to see presentation) 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. For more detailed information
about the meeting, including major outcomes, please see our full workshop report.
3.
Upcoming Webinars
The EarthCube Science
Committee is excited to announce the next in its series of "EarthCube
Tools" webinars, which will be useful for any scientists needing to manage
or share their research data:
Title: EarthCollab: Enabling
Scientific Collaboration and Discovery Through Linked Scientific Resources
Date/time: Friday, August 5,
at 2 pm EDT (1 PM CDT, 12 PM MDT, 11 AM PDT/MST, 8 AM HST)
Presenter: Matthew Mayernik,
NCAR
Description: The EarthCollab project is improving the
discovery and sharing of information to advance research. This project is
leveraging web identifier and vocabulary structures that have been widely
adopted in the geoscience and cyberinfrastructure communities to facilitate
exchange of information across the internet, thereby allowing research projects
to leverage representations of researchers, data sets, tools, and organizations
wherever they reside online.
About the webinars:
The EarthCube Tools for
Doing Geoscience webinar series, organized by the Science Committee of the
NSF-sponsored EarthCube program, provides practical demonstrations of how
EarthCube projects can help you to collect, access, share, and visualize
geoscience data. Each webinar begins with a showcase of an EarthCube funded
project followed by ample time for questions and conversation. Wary of
EarthCube jargon? Presenters will describe their projects in plain English for
scientists in all disciplines who may be unfamiliar with EarthCube. Here’s a chance
for you (and your colleagues, team members, and students) to learn about
EarthCube and how it can help to advance your scientific work. More information
on the webinar series is available here. Archived video will be available on
the website about one week after the webinar.
We are also excited to
announce an upcoming webinar training on the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Title: OSF 101 Webinar
Date/time: Tuesday, August
9, at 1 pm EDT (12 PM CDT, 11 AM MDT, 10 AM PDT/MST, 7 AM HST)
Description: This webinar is an introduction to using the Open
Science Framework (OSF; https://osf.io) - a free, open source web application
built to help researchers manage their workflows. The OSF is part collaboration
tool, part version control software, and part data archive. The OSF connects to
popular tools researchers already use, like Dropbox, Box, Github and Mendeley,
to streamline workflows and increase efficiency. This webinar will get you up
to speed on using the OSF, show helpful tips and tricks, and give you a
launching pad for managing your first OSF project!
4. EarthCube All Hands Meeting
Summary
This past July, EarthCube
hosted its annual All Hands Meeting in Denver, CO. The theme for this year's meeting was "EarthCube
Connects," which emphasizes the connectivity between
cyberinfrastructure (CI) technologies, geoscience domains, and geoscientists
that will drive EarthCube's implementation. It also captures the goal of
building a system of systems that supports cross-disciplinary research.
SEN was in attendance and presented
on our progress over the past year. For
more information on meeting, please see the AGU blog post.
5. Selected recent SEN Knowledge Base entries
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
