eResearch Newsletter July 2023

Dear Alex, here is the National eResearch Newsletter.

National eResearch Newsletter - July 2023

Message from AeRO:

The eResearch Australasia Conference is fast approaching – 16-20 October in Brisbane https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/. The Program Committee is currently reviewing submissions and we hope to advise authors later in the month. Conference registrations are now open and earlybird discounts apply – so register now to secure your spot!

As an added incentive, we are offering fee-free AeRO membership to all organisations who sent 3+ delegates to last year’s conference. If you plan to send 3+ delegates to this year’s conference, you qualify for fee-free AeRO membership for 2024 and we’ll extend this this to include 2023 as well! For more information, visit https://aero.edu.au/join/.

Loretta Davis – AeRO Executive Officer.

CONTENTS:
* HeSANDA Showcase and Health Data Australia Launch: 18-Jul.
* CloudStor Decommission Clinics: next on 20-Jul.
* Powering Up Your Research with GPUs: 25-Jul.
* TERN Science Symposium 2023: 26 to 27-Jul.
* Pawsey Summer Internships: Call for Students: close 7-Aug.
* Stump the Scientist: 17-Aug.
* EOIs for Pawsey Merit Allocation Committees: by 18-Aug.
* Translation Pathways - Research, Industry & Government: 22-Aug.
* NZ Research Software Engineering Conference: 18 to 19-Sep.
* iPRES 2023 Conference on Digital Preservation: 19 to 22-Sep.
* Pawsey Work Experience Call for Students: 27-Sep and 22-Nov.
* Workshop on Accelerator Programming & Directives: 12 to 17-Nov.
* How to Join AeRO for Free.
* Send Large Files Quickly and Securely with FileSender.
* Federation University's CeRDI Newsletter.
* Scaling Up Research Data Conversations.
* Opening Doors for Collaborations around Research Software.
* Unlocking Australia’s Restricted Access Species Data.
* Building Trusted and Reliable Environmental Data Supply Chains.

HeSANDA Program Showcase and Health Data Australia Launch: 18-Jul

Join us to celebrate the achievements of the Health Studies Australia National Data Asset (HeSANDA) node projects and launch Health Data Australia. Health Data Australia will help researchers find clinical trial data from multiple research institutions and request access to it.

Where/When: online and in-person in Adelaide, 1-2pm ACST, Tuesday, 18-Jul-23.

Speakers at the launch include:

Professor Steve Wesselingh, incoming CEO of NHMRC, Executive Director and Infection and Immunity Theme Leader at SAHMRI
Ms Wendy Keech, Executive Director, Health Translation SA
Dr Adrian Burton, Deputy CEO and Director, People Research Data Commons, ARDC.

More information and to register: https://ardc.edu.au/event/hesanda-program-showcase-and-health-data-australia-launch/.

CloudStor Decommission Clinics: next on 20-Jul

AARNet is hosting monthly clinics to help CloudStor users with issues they may be having downloading or migrating data from their CloudStor drives ahead of the CloudStor decommission on 15 December 2023.

Staff from the AARNet eResearch, CloudStor and Support teams will be present to answer your questions and provide information. CloudStor Clinics are open to everyone – CloudStor users, IT staff, research support staff and institution/tenant admins, and anyone else who is interested.

These clinics will be run monthly, with the next session to be held on 20 July 2023 at 1 pm AEST.

Find out more or register at https://www.aarnet.edu.au/cloudstor-decommission-clinics.

Powering Up Your Research with GPUs: 25-Jul

Over the last few years, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) has been expanding and diversifying the types of advanced computing resources available on its national platform.

NeSI’s newest Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) were brought online for production use earlier this year. Join us on Tuesday 25 July for an overview of the different types of GPUs currently available on NeSI, how these resources can support a range of research projects, and a discussion of what other GPU hardware, software, or training is needed by research communities.

Read more: https://www.nesi.org.nz/event/2023/07/webinar-powering-your-research-gpus-nesi.

TERN Science Symposium 2023: 26 to 27-Jul

Join this forum for sharing ecosystem science research, technological development, data system innovation, collaboration and action.

Among other aims, TERN hopes to achieve the following from the 2023 Science Symposium:

Showcase the excellent research using national research infrastructure, data streams, samples and data products.
Build awareness of the products and services offered by TERN.
Facilitate connections between researchers and the people who will make myriad decisions based on the data obtained from TERN’s long term monitoring.

Where/When: Brisbane and online, 8:30am to 4:50pm, 26 and 27-Jul-23.

More information and to register: https://www.tern.org.au/science-symposium-2023/.

Pawsey Summer Internships: Call for Students: close 7-Aug

Talented students (2nd and 3rd year, and Honours, Master’s and PhD) are invited to apply for 2023/2024 Pawsey 10-week paid Summer Internships. They are focused on building skills and experience in computational science and research projects.

Interns work alongside national and/or international supervisors and collaborators, and will learn from Pawsey staff about good practices in video and poster creation & presentation, techniques for scientific communication, good practice in using Pawsey resources, and more.

An indicative list of projects and requirements can be found at this CSIRO page (https://jobs.csiro.au/job-invite/93519/), where you will also find a link to apply.

Link: https://pawsey.org.au/supercomputing/training/pawsey-internships-call-for-students-2021-2022/.

Stump the Scientist: 17-Aug

Join Pawsey this National Science Week for an engaging and interactive session where students have the opportunity to hear from four extraordinary scientists from different fields. They will share their fascinating work, and fun facts about their disciplines.

But that’s not all! The highlight of the event is the chance to ask these scientists the hardest, most thought-provoking questions Students can come up with! We encourage you to put on your thinking caps and challenge them with your questions! The student who poses the stumpiest question will win prizes for their entire class!

Link: https://pawsey.org.au/event/stump-the-scientist-this-national-science-week/.

Expression of Interest for Pawsey Merit Allocation Committees: by 18-Aug

The Pawsey Partner Merit Allocation Committee is responsible for allocating shares of the Setonix supercomputer to meritorious research projects based on the project’s requirements, merit of the project, and overall resources available.

Pawsey is seeking additional committee members to expand its scope of research domain expertise, to cover new and emerging domains. Appointments will be for one to two years.

EOIs are welcomed from appropriately qualified researchers, especially in these areas:

Data Science and Machine Learning
Bioinformatics and Life Science
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Quantum Computing
Astrophysics
Materials Science

Send submissions to allocation-committee@pawsey.org.au by 18-Aug-23.

Link: https://pawsey.org.au/expression-of-interest-for-merit-allocation-committees/.

Translation Pathways Between Research, Industry and Government: 22-Aug

The ARDC Leadership Series provides decision makers in academia, government and industry with the opportunity to work through data challenges facing Australian researchers. This is the first Forum for 2023, and will explore the translation pathways between research, industry and government. It will bring together thought leaders from all sectors to discuss lowering transaction costs of data access, methods of systematically applying trust and realising the value of all sectors working together.

Where/When: 2-4pm (AEST), Tuesday, 22 August, ANU and online

More information and to register: https://ardc.edu.au/event/ardc-leadership-series-translation-pathways-between-research-industry-and-government/.

Save the Date: NZ Research Software Engineering Conference: 18 to 19-Sep

Now in its fourth year, NeSI’s annual New Zealand Research Software Engineering (NZ RSE) Conference continues to support and grow the community of those who write code and develop applications that enable research. This year's event will be held online from 18-19 September 2023 and themed:
Responsible Research in a Shifting World: Balancing Opportunities and Challenges.

Read more: https://www.nesi.org.nz/news/2023/06/save-date-nz-research-software-engineering-conference-happening-online-18-19-september.

iPRES 2023 Conference on Digital Preservation: 19 to 22-Sep

The 19^th Annual Conference will be held in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, with online registration supported. As well as the traditional paper, panel, poster, workshop, and tutorial submissions, there is an Ad-Hoc Program which offers Lightning talks, digital preservation games, Birds of a Feather. These sessions are lightly reviewed and abstracts are not published in the proceedings. The Ad-Hoc Program often features experimental and networking activities or ideas that the authors want to share but don’t feel ready to publish.

The Conference Program can be seen here: https://ipres2023.us/program-at-a-glance/.
Register for in-person or online attendance here: https://ipres2023.us/registration/.

Pawsey Work Experience Call for Students: 27-Sep and 22-Nov

Year 10, 11 and 12 Students are invited to Pawsey on September 27th or on November 22nd to hear all about how they could do work experience with us! There are two opportunities for students to attend, with the highlights for the day including:

Learning about the research being done at Pawsey – which includes a tour of Pawsey’s new Visualisation Lab.
Participating in workshops, activities and challenges.
Learning about different career paths and opportunities.
Mapping your interests and aspirations.

Link: https://pawsey.org.au/event/pawsey-work-experience-call-for-students-27-september-2023/. Or
Link: https://pawsey.org.au/event/pawsey-work-experience-call-for-students-22-november-2023/.

Workshop on Accelerator Programming and Directives: 12 to 17-Nov

Hosted by Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre’s Marciej Cytowski, the aim of the 10th WACCPD 2023 workshop is to share methods and case studies that demonstrate programmability, performance, and performance portability across architectures for various distributed HPC, data, and AI workloads.

As part of SC23, this workshop will be part of an unparalleled mix of thousands of scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, developers, and system administrators who intermingle to learn, share, and grow. Each year, SC provides the leading technical program for the HPC community, which is designed to share best practices in all areas of HPC.

Link: https://pawsey.org.au/event/tenth-workshop-on-accelerator-programming-and-directives-waccpd-2023/.

How to Join AeRO for Free

AeRO has recently become an incorporated association to make membership more accessible and affordable. If your organisation registered 3+ attendees for the eResearch Australasia 2022 (last year’s Conference), or intend to send 3+ attendees to the 2023 Conference, then you quality for fee-free AeRO membership.

More info at https://aero.edu.au/join/ or email loretta@aero.edu.au with any specific questions. We look forward to welcoming you as an AeRO member!

Send Large Files Quickly and Securely with FileSender

FileSender is a powerful web-based application for sending large files, quickly and securely. FileSender was previously integrated into CloudStor, but AARNet is now offering FileSender as a stand-alone service for Australia’s research and education sector.

FileSender is quick, easy to use and can handle files of any size. With its extensive security protocols, files only reach their intended recipients, making FileSender a popular choice at research institutes, healthcare organisations and educational facilities.

Read more: https://www.aarnet.edu.au/send-large-files-quickly-and-securely-with-filesender.

Federation University's CeRDI Newsletter

The Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) at Federation University recently published its quarterly newsletter. The newsletter includes the following research updates:

Improving water security for farms and lakes
Piggery effluent – waste or valuable resource?
Supporting data sharing for improved food security
Online Farm Trials
Visualising Australasia’s Soils
PhD Scholarship Opportunity.

To view the newsletter: https://www.cerdi.edu.au/cb_pages/news/CeRDINewsletterAutumn2023.php.

Scaling Up Research Data Conversations

As part of a special panel at AeRO’s recent National eResearch Forum in Canberra, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) Director Nick Jones and colleagues from Research Data Culture Conversation (RDCC) discussed our collective research data challenges, the work of the RDCC, and what is next for characterising Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia's research data at scale.

Read more: https://www.nesi.org.nz/news/2023/06/scaling-research-data-conversations.

Opening Doors for Collaborations around Research Software

New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) has joined the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) as an Organiational Member, expanding NeSI’s ability to participate in, learn from, and contribute to international efforts advancing the research software ecosystem.

Read more: https://www.nesi.org.nz/news/2023/06/nesi-membership-research-software-alliance-resa-opens-door-more-collaborations-and.

Unlocking Australia’s Restricted Access Species Data

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), with co-investment from the ARDC, together with 13 other partners — including all state and commonwealth jurisdictions, research infrastructure and other stakeholder groups — collaborated widely to develop a national framework for managing and sharing restricted access species data, to increase the discoverability, access and sharing of this sensitive data.

National scale biodiversity data, including species location, quantity, behaviour and habitat interactions, are critical for researchers and decision-makers to understand, manage and conserve sensitive species, but sometimes have to be restricted to preserve endangered species or for other cultural or sensitive reasons.

For more information: https://ardc.edu.au/case-study/unlocking-australias-restricted-access-species-data/.

Building Trusted and Reliable Environmental Data and Information Supply Chains in Australia

In early June 2023, over 80 participants from industry, government and research came together in Perth to discuss building a trusted and reliable supply chain for environmental data and information in Australia. The workshop was co-hosted by the ARDC, the Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute (WABSI) and the Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI).

A report on the workshop is being prepared. A task force is being formed to agree on an inclusive process to define and map an environmental information supply chain, by October 2023; and scope a pilot regional collaborative supply chain.

More information: https://ardc.edu.au/article/building-trusted-and-reliable-environmental-data-and-information-supply-chains-in-australia/.

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