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Dear <<First Name>>, here is the National eResearch Newsletter.
National eResearch Newsletter - May 2021
Message from AeRO:
 
This Newsletter represents the 65th Newsletter that I have edited, starting in November 2015, ie 5 and a half years.  That represents 1,107 articles, not including the CEO's pieces.  The number of articles has gradually increased, while the opening and "click" rates have exceeded "industry averages" (at 30% and 10% respectively).

The average number of articles was 14 in 2018, 18 in 2019, 20 in 2020 and 21 this year so far.

This all indicates that the Newsletter is well appreciated by the eResearch Community (500 people are on the mailing list).  AeRO is very pleased to be able to offer this service to this community, as am I (doing this task in a voluntary capacity).
 
Alex Reid, Newsletter Editor.
 
CONTENTS:
* Pawsey Ask Me Anything: SLURM:  17-May.
* RDA Plenary 17 Regional Events:  from 18-May.
* C3DIS Abstract Submissions Close:  21-May.
* RDA Financial Sustainability:  Q&A Meetings:  21 & 25-May.
* Webinar:  Principles for Versioning Data:  28-May.
* Pawsey Ask Me Anything: Containers & Bioinformatics:  31-May.
* AARNet Researcher Talks 2021 Winter Series:  starts 3-Jun.
* OECD International Survey of Science:  by 30-Jun.
* Call for Feedback:  Earth Science Datasets:  by 4-Jun.
* TERN Science Symposium:  5-6 July.
* AeRO Forum “Sustainability in eResearch”:  7-Jul.
* eResearch Australasia Conference:  11-15 October 2021.
* Piecing Together the Puzzle of Australian Seabed Data.
* Giant NCI Compute Grants Awarded.
* Australia Signs Up to Access to Publicly Funded Data.
* The Inaugural NCI and Intersect Research Showcase.
* Putting Australia’s Vegetation on the Map.
* Phenomics Australia New Website Goes Live.
* Nectar Research Cloud Upgraded at Monash and Tasmania.
* eResearch Jobs.
Pawsey Ask Me Anything: SLURM:  17-May
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre invites you to join us for a Pawsey Hour (Ask. Me. Anything.) on SLURM, Pawsey’s job scheduler.
 
17 May 2021, 10:00am - 11:00am AWST (by Zoom).
 
Pawsey Hour AMA is an opportunity to join in a discussion with Pawsey expert staff and an online community of peers.
 
If you have any pressing questions please join the session, especially if you are:
  • New researchers who want to know if Pawsey services are for them;
  • Current users who have specific questions about our infrastructure and expertise, or their research challenges (within the Pawsey context).
Register here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcscuGurD4iGNclob9nye4YZ3zQRw16NrKO.
RDA Plenary 17 Regional Events:  from 18-May
View all events here: https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/rda-australia/wiki/rda-virtual-plenary-17-virtual-regional-event.
 
Each of these RDA events: Data Policies, 20 May 2021, 2pm (AEST) https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/data-policies-tickets-153472106201.
C3DIS Abstract Submissions Close:  21-May
The Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science will this year be held from 5 to 9-July.  The program will include a variety of online sessions, including those around the CSIRO Cross-Cutting Capabilities and Missions, with new look Streams and Themes.
 
The conference is open to expressions of interest from all science domains.  We are particularly interested in your experiences delivering research outcomes via computational and data-intensive science.  We encourage the wider community to submit a session proposal in case the content does not fit under any category.
 
For more information and to submit an Abstract (by 21-May), visit:  http://www.c3dis.com/.
Research Data Alliance Financial Sustainability Info Share: Q&A Meetings: 21 & 25-May
To allow members of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) the opportunity to hear about RDA's Financial Sustainability Task Force activities, status and plans, RDA is offering two virtual 60-minute meetings to those interested:
 
Tuesday 25 May 2021 at 4pm AEST - Participation is free and open to all but is subject to pre-registration at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcu-rqTIuE9A_91OgQeqwoiwSWwc1uFR6.
 
An earlier session is scheduled for 1am AEST on Friday, 21-May:  registration at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUldeugrjkvGtMH-EbBfYybzgDq_FT3tZ5L.
 
More information can be found at https://www.rd-alliance.org/sustaining-research-data-alliance-virtual-info-share-and-qa-meetings-–-may-2021.
Webinar: A Conceptual Framework and Proposed Principles for Versioning Data:  28-May
Date:  28 May 2020, 9-10am AEST
Speaker:  Dr Jens Klump (CSIRO)
This 1-hour webinar will address the issue of a lack of a consistent framework and agreed definitions of best practices across data communities in guiding the management of data versioning, including the citation and identification of different versions of a data set.
 
The talk introduces six foundational principles for versioning of datasets.  They provide a high-level framework for guiding consistent data versioning practice, protocols and procedures for both researchers and data providers, and systematic identification of data products.
 
For details and registration, visit:  https://www.rd-alliance.org/data-versioning-wg-webinar-2021.
Pawsey Ask Me Anything: Containers & Bioinformatics:  31-May
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre invites you to join us for a Pawsey Hour (Ask. Me. Anything.) on Containers and Bioinformatics.  The AMA is an opportunity to join in a discussion with Pawsey expert staff and an online community of peers.
 
31 May 2021, 10:00am - 11:00am AWST (by Zoom).
 
If you have any pressing questions please join the session, especially if you are:
  • New researchers who want to know if Pawsey services are for them;
  • Current users who have specific questions about our infrastructure and expertise, or their research challenges (within the Pawsey context).
Register here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpc-GhqzsvHdPSX7ziCd1waUm69icHhRoC.
AARNet Researcher Talks 2021 Winter Series:  starts 3-Jun
In this series of Researcher Talks, to be held monthly by Zoom from June to September, researchers across different domains will explain how they are using AARNet infrastructure to accelerate their research.  They will each speak about their work and the tools and techniques they use for analysis, followed by an informal interactive Q&A session.
 
The first talk will be held on 3 June, 1-2pm, given by Dr Robert Luke, Research Fellow at Macquarie University, who will discuss how his multidisciplinary teams use CloudStor infrastructure for backing up, archiving, and sharing data for collaborative neuroscience studies.
 
More information and registrations: https://www.aarnet.edu.au/events/aarnet-researcher-talks-2021-winter-series.
Call for Feedback:  Earth Science Datasets:  by 4-Jun
Responding to the Call to Action for Global Access to and Harmonization of Quality Information of Individual Earth Science Datasets (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2021-019), 22 international interdisciplinary domain experts have been voluntarily working towards developing a draft document of community guidelines for making quality information FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable).
 
It is now open for community review at https://lnkd.in/gNZ5gwt.  Note that the guidelines are applicable to disciplines other than Earth Science.  This work has been supported by the Australia/New Zealand Data Quality Interest Group (https://sites.google.com/ardc.edu.au/australian-data-quality-ig/).
 
Please provide feedback via this Google Form here (https://forms.gle/3sAnW3B3Jxn5ZMig9), before Friday June 4, 2021.
OECD International Survey of Science:  by 30-Jun
The Department of Education, Skills and Employment has circulated the next International Survey of Science survey from the OECD Global Science Forum for 2021 and is sharing this with researchers interested in responding individually to the survey.  Your response, and assistance in circulating to your networks, would be greatly appreciated.
 
Of note, this survey focuses on the working conditions experienced by scientists, their engagement with their social and economic environment, and the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on their work and careers.  The survey is expected to remain open for participation until the end of June 2021.
 
Further information on the survey and project is attached and at http://oe.cd/issa.
TERN Science Symposium:  5-6 July
The TERN Science Symposium 2021 is a forum for presenting both transdisciplinary and traditional approaches to ecosystem science research, technological development, data system innovation, collaboration and action.  It is also a forum for presenting results of ecosystem-related research and pilot studies.
 
TERN invites vibrant, novel and insightful abstracts from ecosystem science researchers, environmental managers, strategists, practitioners – in fact, anyone with a burning passion for any aspect of terrestrial ecosystems, and our place within them.
 
For further information, submission and registration:  https://www.tern.org.au/science-symposium/.
AeRO Forum “Sustainability in eResearch”:  7-Jul
This will be the 11th year the AeRO National Forum has been run for executive leadership and senior staff, and provides an excellent opportunity to discuss issues facing the sector.  The venue is yet to be determined, but it may be in a hybrid form, with gatherings at various locations.  Please note the date now!
 
The forums aim to engage national, state and institutional eResearch organisations, service provider and industry representatives as well as state and federal science agencies and have proven to be an excellent stimulus for discussion and collaboration and aim to identify key strategic initiatives.
 
Further information at:  https://aero.edu.au/forum/.
eResearch Australasia Conference:  11-15 October 2021
The eResearch conference is the premier networking and technical event for eResearch in Australia and New Zealand.  In-person events for the 2021 conference will follow a “hub and node” model, with all registrations including access to an event in your nearest location.
 
It is expected that the main eResearch Conference hub will be situated in Brisbane, with node locations situated in major cities throughout Australia and New Zealand.
 
Details regarding in-person activities will be confirmed as planning proceeds, however we anticipate the opportunity for plenty of networking and catching up with colleagues!
 
Further info at the Conference website at:   https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/.
Piecing Together the Puzzle of Australian Seabed Data
A new ARDC-supported platforms project, GMRT-AusSeabed, will help more researchers and industry use Australia’s seabed data to better predict the future of our coasts and oceans.
 
See https://ardc.edu.au/news/piecing-together-the-puzzle-of-australian-seabed-data/.
Giant Compute Grants Awarded to Generate Great Australian Science
NCI Australia has announced the recipients of the 2021 Australasian Leadership Computing Grants (ALCG).
 
Australian researchers from a range of fields will use substantial grants of computing time to work on some of the most complex problems facing science today.  Success in the highly-competitive ALCG process facilitates five teams accelerating their research and producing unprecedented results at incredible resolution, reflecting the world-class, high-impact research that NCI enables.
 
A total of almost 150 million units of compute time have been awarded in total (equivalent to 20,000 years of calculations on one single computer).
 
See:  https://nci.org.au/news-events/news/giant-compute-grants-generate-great-australian-science.
Australia Signs up to Expanded OECD Recommendation on Access to Publicly Funded Data
In January this year Australia was one of 40 countries to agree to adopt the revised OECD Recommendation on Access to Research Data from Public Funding.  We talk to ARDC’s Adrian Burton about what this may mean for Australia.
 
See https://ardc.edu.au/news/australia-signs-up-to-expanded-oecd-recommendation/.
The Inaugural NCI and Intersect Research Showcase
We are excited to announce the first joint NCI and Intersect Research Showcase entitled AI and ML in Materials Design and Discovery.  The showcase series highlights state-of-the-art research activities by internationally renowned scholars in HPC / Big Data and its applied science domains.  The talks will be of broad interest for audiences from higher research degree students to early career researchers and beyond.  The showcases are envisaged to run annually.
 
Please join us online in this fantastic array of masterclasses!  (note that this particular showcase was held on 13-May, but recordings may be available).
 
See https://opus.nci.org.au/display/Help/AI+and+ML+in+Materials+Design+and+Discovery.
Putting Australia’s Vegetation on the Map
60 photos of Australian vegetation captured at TERN monitoring sites have been added to the Global Vegetation Project’s open-access map.  The new pics will enrich the experience of students and educators around the world.
 
Find out more about this exciting project and take look at the images, at https://www.tern.org.au/news-global-vegetation-project/.
Phenomics Australia New Website Goes Live
We are excited to announce that Phenomics Australia’s new website is live!  Gain insight into the services and expertise of Phenomics Australia and learn how you can benefit from this national research infrastructure for health discovery and translation.
 
Go to:  https://phenomicsaustralia.org.au/.
ARDC Nectar Research Cloud Upgraded at Monash University and the University of Tasmania
In an exciting infrastructure upgrade for the Australian research community, two nodes of the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud have been refreshed to provide enhanced cloud computing power.
 
See https://ardc.edu.au/news/nectar-research-cloud-upgraded/.
eResearch Jobs
AeRO provides details of the latest eResearch job opportunities in the sector.  Jobs are posted immediately to https://twitter.com/AeRO_eResearch, and the website at http://aero.edu.au/jobs/ is also updated.
 
This is a free service for the whole eResearch community - to advertise a position, simply email loretta@aero.edu.au.
 
Here are some current vacancies:  Research Data Specialist in AI and Machine Learning (ARDC), eResearch Analyst (Intersect/UNSW), Cloud Development & Operations Engineer (ARDC/UMelb), Research Data Specialist (ARDC/UTS), Marketing Specialist (ARDC/UQ).
Contributions
This newsletter is based on contributions from members of the eResearch community, and draws on news articles and newsletters published across the sector. The Newsletter is published around the 16th of each month. Please send all contributions (max. 100 words + link + image) or pointers to any other relevant articles or newsletters to editor@aero.edu.au.
Newsletter archives are available at http://aero.edu.au/newsletters/.
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Thanks, Alex Reid, National eResearch Newsletter Editor.
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