Researchers Explore Creation of CyVerse Australia

Data scientists recently visited CyVerse headquarters to discuss federating the CyVerse infrastructure framework to support the Australian research community.

The Hurwitz Lab makes extremely large data sets from a range of storage servers searchable to assist scientific discovery.

CyVerse, a national cyberinfrastructure project led by the University of Arizona, has received a third five-year award from the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Biological Sciences, bringing total project funding to $115 million.

Management of global biodiversity requires up-to-date, reliable and comparable biodiversity data. Essential biodiversity variables such as species traits is one way to monitor the global state of biodiversity.

The students learned to use tools and technologies that data scientists regularly utilize, preparing them to lead the next generation in data science. 

The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) 2018 summer meeting, Data for our Changing Earth: Realizing the Socioeconomic Value of Data, was held in Tucson July 17–20, with sponsorship by the University of Arizona.

CyVerse is working with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to make ecological data broadly accessible to researchers through CyVerse’s Atmosphere cloud platform.

CyVerse science informatician Ramona Walls' career has spanned fashion design, ecology, and ontology, and art. She finds her award-winning artwork complementary to her scientific side.