Category: Incubator Project

• Learning to See the Forest and the Trees: Using Computer Vision to Make Forest Stewardship More Accessible

  

  Project Lead: David Diaz, School of Environmental & Forest Sciences Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow eScience Liaison: Valentina Staneva Maps that delineate and classify forest conditions remain indispensable prerequisites for forest stewardship planning. By developing new reproducible and open-source methods to automate forest mapping, our effort is designed to facilitate conservation and management planning among the 40,000+ non-industrial…

• Dry Thunderstorm Forecast Using Machine Learning Techniques

  

  Project Lead: Wei-Yi Cheng, Department of Atmospheric Sciences  eScience Liaison: Scott Henderson Dry thunderstorms (DT) are convective storms that generate lightning flashes without significant rainfall at the ground. The frequent occurrence of DTs has long been an important safety concern in the western United States due to its connection to wildfire events. An accurate forecast for…

• The Universe of International Treaties

  Project Lead: Bree Bang-Jensen, Department of Political Science  eScience Liaison: Jose Hernandez and Spencer Wood The greatest challenges of the 21st century are cross-national, including climate change, migration, epidemics, inequality and financial corruption.  As a result, it is critical that we better understand the factors that endanger international cooperation. Despite a wealth of research on how the design of…

• Using Gliders to Observe Submesoscale Flows

  

  Project Lead: Dhruv Balwada, School of Oceanography, College of the Environment eScience Liaison: Rob Fatland and Scott Henderson Since the industrial revolution 25-30% of the human-created carbon and 90% of the excess heat in the earth system has been sequestered into the deep ocean. These tracers (like heat, carbon and oxygen) are transported from the surface into the…

• Data analytics for demixing and decoding patterns of population neural activity underlying addiction behavior

  

  Project Lead: Charles Zhou, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine Staff Scientist  eScience Liaison: Ariel Rokem In 2017, 1.7 million people in the United States reported addiction to opioid pain relievers (Center for behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, 2017) while 47,000 individuals died from opioid overdose (CDC, 2018). Understanding the mechanisms of substance use disorders and developing…

• Developing a relational database for acoustic detections and locations of baleen whales in the Northeast Pacific Ocean

  

  Project Lead: Rose Hilmo, UW School of Oceanography PhD Candidate eScience Liaison: Joseph Hellerstein The health and recovery of whale populations is a major concern in ocean ecosystems. This project is about using data science to improve the monitoring of whale populations, an ongoing area of research in ocean ecology. Our focus is acoustic monitoring,…

• Automated monitoring and analysis of slow earthquake activity

  

  Project Lead: Ariane Ducellier, UW Department of Earth & Space Sciences PhD Candidate eScience Liaison: Scott Henderson   Low-frequency earthquakes (LFEs) are small magnitude earthquakes, with typical magnitude less than 2,and reduced amplitudes at frequencies greater than 10 Hz relative to ordinary small earthquakes. Their occurrence is often associated with tectonic tremor and slow slip events…

• British Justifications for Internment without Trial: NLP Approaches to Analyzing Government Archives

  

  Project Lead: Sarah Dreier, UW Department of Political Science and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow eScience Liaison: Jose Hernandez How do liberal democracies justify policies that violate the rights of targeted citizens? When facing real or perceived national security threats, democratic states routinely frame certain citizens as “enemies of the…

• Predicting a drought with a flood of data: Evaluating the utility of data-driven approaches to seasonal hydrologic forecasts

  

  Project Lead: Oriana Chegwidden, UW Civil & Environmental Engineering Department PhD Candidate and Staff Scientist eScience Liaison: Nicoleta Cristea Climate change is likely to exacerbate droughts in the future, compromising water availability around the world. Those changes in water availability may not be uniform across the land surface, with changes in precipitation, snowpack, and increased…

• Systems level analysis of metabolic pathways across a marine oxygen deficient zone

  

  Project Lead: Gabrielle Rocap, UW School of Oceanography Professor eScience Liaison: Bryna Hazelton Marine Oxygen Deficient Zones (ODZs) are naturally-occurring mid-layer oxygen poor regions of the ocean, sandwiched between oxygenated surface and deep layers. In the absence of oxygen, microorganisms in ODZs use a variety of other elements as terminal electron acceptors, most notably oxidized…