Monday August 27, 2018
In this edition:
- CERN Speeds Up Its Capacity Building and Data Sharing
- Integration of Battelle Ecology into Battelle
- National Science Foundation Coastal Initiative
- RDA Call for Paper
- Calendar of Events
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CERN Speeds Up Its Capacity Building and Data Sharing
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Dr. Xiubo Yu,
Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN)
Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN) is funded by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), via a key national programme grant in 1989. CERN was designed with 29 sites, 4 thematic centres (water, soil, atmosphere and biology) and supporting synthesis centre facilities. Since, it has expanded to 44 field sites that now encompass cropland, forest, grassland, desert, lakes, bay and urban ecosystems. The systematic data, resources and long term infrastructure provided by CERN aids in technical support in national ecological research, global change and sustainable development.
CERN advances ecological research through its increased capability in the quality of ecological data and to provide useful information for decision makers to map, understand and predict the effects of human activities on ecological processes and effectively address critical ecological questions and societal issues. The overarching design of CERN research infrastructure is focused on the ecological processes of major ecosystems, their drivers of change, the impacts by the anthropogenic activities. Our best management practices inform our wise use of natural resources for ecological, social, and economic sustainability. We are actively collaborating internationally to address these global challenges with ILTER, NEON and other ecological infrastructures and networks.
Chinese Academy of Sciences and its host institutes have actively improved CERN
in-situ
observation facilities, field controlled experiments, as well as, data collection, transmission, management and sharing. During our annual meeting, researchers shared observatory information to further improve CERN’s capabilities.
CERN research priorities include the processes that control coupled carbon, nitrogen and water cycles in the ecosystem, responses and adaptation of the ecosystem in a changing global climate, biodiversity conservation, wise management use of biological resources, the impacts on the ecological structure and function induced by anthropogenic factors, and monitoring, simulating and application of ecological information. Taking these scientific initiatives in concert, efforts are being made to further prioritize China FLUX’s role in CERN’s scientific programme.
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Integration of Battelle Ecology into Battelle
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Beginning July 2018, Battelle Ecology began the integration into Battelle, working among cross-cutting expertise to make the connection between environmental exposures, climate variability and change, infrastructure, and the health and safety of populations. At major technology centers and national laboratories around the world, Battelle conducts research and development, designs and manufactures products, and delivers critical services for government and commercial customers. The integration into Battelle resolves internal and external confusion about Battelle Ecology, improves competitiveness and simplifies business solutions. Battelle provides long-term cost reductions and efficiency improvements to current and future projects while eliminating duplication, and ensuring compliance of systems and processes.
Current projects under Battelle Ecology, including National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and COOPEUS (Cooperation between the US and EU), will be transferred to Battelle. In March 2016, Battelle was selected to manage the completion of NEON sponsored by the National Science Foundation. NEON is a continental-scale ecological observation facility, that collects and provides free and open data that characterizes and quantifies complex, rapidly changing ecological processes across the United States. The project’s comprehensive data, spatial extent and remote sensing technology enables the user community to tackle new questions both on a larger (continental) and longer (decadal) scales.
Current COOPEUS projects focus to make large datasets interoperable to enhance the value of current scientific efforts and investment. We are pleased to announce two COOPEUS projects will be completed prior to integration. The Plant Phenology Ontology pipeline customizes the pre-inferencing of input data from various expressive ontologies with virtually no processing delay. View the website here:
https://www.plantphenology.org/
Using the Dynamic Workflows (e.g. Kepler Workflow), another project works to lower the barriers to integrate and use ‘Big Environmental Data’ by a broad user community. View the website here:
https://firemap.sdsc.edu/savi/map.html
The integration is scheduled to be complete on October 1, 2018.
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New National Science Foundation Initiative:
Coastlines & People
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Geosciences in collaboration with the Directorates for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, Engineering, Education and Human Resources, and Biological Sciences are looking to better understand the research priorities related to advancing understanding of the impacts of coastal environmental variability and natural hazards on populated coastal regions. This emerging effort about Coastlines and People is called CoPe.
The goal of this effort is to support Coastal Research Hubs, structured using a convergent science approach, at the nexus between coastal sustainability, human dimensions, and coastal processes to transform understanding of interactions among natural, human-built, and social systems in coastal populated environments. Research Hubs will address issues operating at multiple scales, link science, community involvement, broadening participation, and education into developing pathways to sustainability in changing coastal environments.
The NSF would like to engage the scientific community in the development of priorities related to CoPe, through three regional and one virtual, concurrently-held scoping workshops on September 26-28, 2018.
The goals of the workshops are to identify the research priorities and the optimal structure for research initiatives on Coastlines and People.
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RDA's 12th Plenary - Call for Posters Now Open!
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From 5-8 November 2018, RDA’s 12
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Plenary (P12) will be taking place in Gaborone, Botswana as part of
International Data Week 2018
. By participating in RDA’s P12 Poster Session, you have an excellent opportunity to share your ideas, ongoing research and accomplishments with data professionals from around the globe.
RDA Poster Sessions offer an interactive way of initiating collaborative conversations and exchanges of ideas with an audience of data practitioners, computer scientists, researchers, policy makers and private sector representatives, who are all committed to open sharing of data across disciplines, technologies and borders to accelerate innovation.
Positioned in prominent areas at the Gaborone Convention Center, poster session participants will have high visibility with meeting attendees, especially during the coffee breaks, lunches and social events.
The deadline to submit your poster application is 18 September 2018 at 23:00 UTC.
Notifications of acceptances will occur on 25 September 2018.
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September 3-7:
UArctic Congress
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egins in Oulu, September 3-6 and concludes in Helsinki on September 7
With the aim to foster contacts and enhance networking, the UArctic Congress brings together institutional leaders, indigenous representatives, academics, scientists and students from around the Circumpolar North and beyond. Together with partners, policy makers, and other actors, the Congress strives to take the Arctic agenda forward by creating and strengthening collaborations that produce new findings and solutions for the future of the Arctic region.
For more information and registration please visit this
page
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September 11-13
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The 3rd Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Science Conference.
Prague, Czech Republic
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The conference is structured around 13 themes/sessions.
Theme 1: Climate change mitigation – closing the gap between science, inventories and policy making
Theme 2: Major research questions in Earth Observations
Theme 3: Globally integrative studies
Theme 4: Data management and quality
Theme 5: Decadal variability in biogeochemical cycles
Theme 6: Newest new in research – scientific and technical developments
Theme 7: Land sink – from residual to direct estimates
Theme 8: Reactive gases
Theme 9: Bridging the gap between bottom-up and top-down methods
Theme 10: Urban greenhouse gas budget – from novel monitoring networks to source identification
Theme 11: In-situ and remote sensing observations
Theme 12: From data to useful services with societal meaning
Theme 13: Regional efforts to constrain the global C cycle
For more information please visit this
page
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September 12-14:
ICRI 2018 - 4th International Conference on Research Infrastructur
es.
Vienna, Austria
ICRI 2018 aims to:
·provide a forum for strategic discussion on international cooperation for research
infrastructures at global level;
·highlight the essential role of research infrastructures in addressing global challenges
and contributing to Sustainable Development Goals;
·reflect on the needs, development, and operation of global and national research
infrastructures;
·build on the outcomes of ICRI 2016, discussing existing and emerging challenges
faced by RI stakeholders and investigating policy options and possible steps forward.
For more information (registration is by invitation only) please visit this
page
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September 12-14:
Phenology 2018 Conference.
Melbourne, Australia
This will be the fourth international phenology conference sponsored by our Commission, and our venues now span four continents and both hemispheres! Phenological research continues to expand in relevance, volume, and applications, especially in relation to global climate change. I hope that you are making plans to participate, and look forward to hearing all about your research progress while we are in Melbourne.
For more information and registration please visit this
page
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October 8-12
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TERENO International Conference.
Berlin, Germany
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October 10-12
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Workshop on Interoperability Technologies and Best Practices in Environmental Monitoring
, Brest
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October 29
-November 1:
IEEE eScience Conference.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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November 5-8
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International Data Week.
Bostwana, Africa
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November 5-8
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RDA 12th Plenary Meeting
part of International Data Week.
Bostwana, Africa
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November 5-9
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7th
ENVRI Week.
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November 9-11:
Arctic Biodiversity Congress 2018.
Rovaniemi, Finland
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November 21&22:
Final COOP+ Workshop.
Brussels, Belgium
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December 10-14
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AGU 2018.
Washington, DC USA
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STRATEGIC COOPERATION COUNCIL (SCC) HOMEPAGE
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Calendar of Events!
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View archived
Strategic Cooperation Council newsletters!
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Questions or comments please contact:
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Melissa A. Genazzio
SAVI Staff Scientist
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