Category: Incubator Project

• 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…

• Deer Fear: Using Accelerometers and Video Camera Collars to Understand if Wolves Change Deer Behavior

  

  Project Lead: Apryle Craig, UW Department of Environmental & Forest Sciences PhD Candidate eScience Liaison: Valentina Staneva Animal behavior can provide insight into underlying processes that drive population and ecosystem dynamics. Accelerometers are small, inexpensive biologgers that can be used to identify animal behaviors remotely. Tri-axial accelerometers measure an animal’s acceleration in each of the three…

• Interactions of tropical precipitation with atmospheric circulation and energy transport

  

  Project Lead: Lauren Kuntz, Department of Oceanography eScience Liaison: Rob Fatland, with Purshottam Shivraj However, our canonical view of how precipitation impacts broad scale atmospheric circulation and energy transport relies on simplified models of the zonal mean; it fails to explain the vertical and meridional variability in precipitation events, as well as their impact on energy…

• Affective state analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations in animal models of mTBI/PTSD and neuropathic pain

  

  Project Lead: Abigail G. Schindler, acting assistant professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Services eScience Liaison: Valentina Staneva Chronic health conditions (e.g. mental health, pain) are increasing in the US and contribute substantially to decreased quality of life, loss of productivity, and increased financial burden. Indeed, the CDC estimates that over 90% of annual health care expenditures…

• Predicting human-mediated vectors for invasive species from mobile technology

  

  Project Lead: Julian Olden with Rachael Fricke, both UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences  eScience Liaison: Spencer Wood Invasive species pose a significant threat to ecosystem health and economies of nations across the globe. Freshwater recreational fishing is the largest and growing vector for invader introductions: specifically, because angler activities entangle invasive organisms on…

• A network analysis of tree competition: Which tree species make the best neighbors?

  

  Project Lead: Stuart Ian Graham, UW Biology Department eScience Liaison: Ariel Rokem A quantitative understanding of how co-occurring tree species influence one another’s growth is required to predict how forest ecosystems will respond to climate change. Although competition with neighboring trees undoubtedly limits tree growth, the species identity of neighbors may have an important role…

• Beneficial competition under rationing: evidence from food delivery service

  

  Project Lead: Kwong-Yu Wong, UW Department of Economics  eScience Liaison: Jose Hernandez Rationing is usually necessitated whenever some external constraints causing quantity of goods provided in lack of what is required (e.g. essential supplies in wartime, surgery needed, meals during peak hours etc.). In Economics literature, rationing is commonly regarded as welfare reducing because it easily…

• Atmospheric particulate matter source identification using excitation emission fluorescence spectroscopy

  

  Project Lead: Jay Rutherford, UW Department of Chemical Engineering PhD Candidate eScience Liaison: Bernease Herman Air pollution is estimated to cause 4.9 million premature deaths and result in 149 million disability adjusted life years annually.(1) 91% of the world’s population lives with air pollution levels above the World Health Organization Guidelines.(2) These facts make it the world’s largest…

• Hitting the mark: targeting strategy development for SDSS V with a robotic fiber positioning system

  

  Project Lead: Jennifer Sobeck, APOGEE-2 project manager; Michael Blanton, associate professor, Department of Physics, New York University; and Jose Sanchez Gallego, research scientist, Department of Astronomy  eScience Liaisons: Jacob VanderPlas In 2020, the fifth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) will undertake a 5-year spectroscopic survey of over six million objects, building on…

• Political Twitter images project summary and goals

  

  Project Leads: Nora Webb Williams, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science; Wesley Zuidema, PhD Student, Department of Political Science; John D. Wilkerson, Professor, Department of Political Science; and Andreu Casas, Moore Sloan Research Fellow, New York University   eScience Liaison: Bernease Herman How do outsider political groups use social media to mobilize supporters online? What types of social…