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• The 2025 Humanities Data Science Summer Institute: Celebrating Three Years of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

  

  This summer the UW Data Science Minor, in collaboration with eScience, offered the third iteration of the Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI). Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from several university departments gathered to work together on humanities data science research projects. During this collaborative process, students attended training sessions with guidance from HDSSI co-founders…

• ICESat-2 Hackweek 2025: Open Software for Earth Satellites

  

  By Kate Rich In 2018, NASA launched the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) into space for scientific research. The satellite enables scientists to measure the elevation of tree canopies, oceans, sea ice, and ice sheets across the globe with its photon-counting laser altimeter. With these data, researchers can further explore how the…

• Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf

  

  By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is SSEC Senior Research Software Engineer Niki Burggraf.  From programming languages to human languages, Niki has always had a knack for translating knowledge across different systems. Growing up in the…

• Staff Spotlight: Cordero Core

  

  By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Cordero Core, a Senior Research Software Engineer at our Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC). In and outside of the office, Cordero brings creative insights to technical problems. At SSEC,…

• Staff Spotlight: Curtis Atkisson

  

  By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Data Scientist Curtis Atkisson. Prior to becoming a researcher of human behavior, Curtis explored human nature through a different medium. After graduating from high school at the age of…

• Staff Spotlight: Bryna Hazelton

  

  By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Bryna Hazelton, our Director of Research Programs and Senior Research Scientist.  Given her upbringing, some might find it unsurprising that Bryna developed a passion for research. She grew up…

• How Busy are National Parks and other Public Lands? Researchers Hone Methods for Estimating Visitation

  

  By Kate Rich Visits to national parks are on the rise. In 2024, the National Park Service set a new record of 332 million recreation visits, with over 6 million more visitors than the previous year.  While these numbers indicate growing interest in outdoor recreation, climbing visitation rates present challenges for land managers working to…

• $20 Million Grant to Provide Commercial Cloud Resources to National Research Community

  

  by Cynthia Dillon, SDSC Communications The University of Washington will partner on a $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for the acquisition and deployment of commercial cloud resources to support approximately 500 research projects annually across the nation over the next five years. CloudBank 2: Accelerating Science and Engineering Research in the…

• July Meetup for Research Software Engineers

  

  Join us for the Seattle Research Software Engineer (RSE) Meetup, a FREE event hosted and sponsored by the eScience Institute at the University of Washington.This introductory networking event is a great opportunity for Research Software Engineers, developers, and scientists in the Seattle area to connect, network, and build a community of RSEs. Whether you’re an experienced RSE…

• Announcing the 2023 Data Science Incubator Projects

  

  The eScience’s annual Data Science Incubator program kicked off last week, which enables new research discoveries by bringing together data scientists and domain scientists to work on focused, intensive, collaborative projects. Our team of data scientists provide expertise in state-of-the-art technology and methods in large-scale data manipulation and analytics, cloud and cluster computing, statistics and…