Category: SSEC Project

• Caustics: Simulating Gravitational Lensing

  

  Partners Yashar Hezaveh, Director, Ciela Institute  Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, Assistant Professor, Ciela Institute  Connor Stone, Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Ciela Institute  SSEC Engineers Don Setiawan, Senior Research Software Engineer Cordero Core, Senior Research Software Engineer Gravitational lensing occurs when a large mass (e.g. a galaxy) lies between an observer (Earth) and a light source (another galaxy). These…

• AutoDoc: Automated Documentation of Empirical Research 

  

  Partners Sebastian Musslick, Director, Autonomous Empirical Research Group  Younes Strittmatter, Research Assistant, Autonomous Empirical Research Group  SSEC Engineers Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Senior Principal Software Engineer AutoRA is a collection of Python packages that together form a framework for closed loop empirical research. The packages allow users to set variables, weights, and actions to perform…

• ProSpecPy: Processing FTIR Spectroscopy Data

  

  Partners Elizabeth Phillips, Postdoctoral Scientist, Vincent Group @ Oxford University SSEC Engineers Anshul Tambay, Technical Program Manager  Hydrogenases are a group of enzymes that catalyze the reversible reduction of protons to hydrogen. They are extremely efficient, with turnover frequencies that rival the most efficient metal catalysts (Pt or Pd), using earth abundant metals (Ni or…

• Echopype: Ocean Acoustics

  

  Partners Wu-Jung Lee, Senior Oceanographer, Applied Physics Laboratory at UW Emilio Mayorga, Researcher, Applied Physics Laboratory at UW eScience Institute/SSEC Engineers Valentina Staneva, Senior Data Scientist Don Setiawan, Senior Software Engineer Scientists commonly use active sonar systems to collect data about mid-trophic level animals, such as zooplankton and small fish that play an important role…

• NoisePy: Ambient Field Seismology in Python 

  

  Partners Marine Denolle, Assistant Professor, UW Earth and Space Sciences  Yiyu Ni, PhD Student Kuan-Fu Feng, Postdoctoral Scholar SSEC Engineers Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Senior Principal Software Engineer NoisePy is a software package used to image the Earth’s subsurface and monitor its changes through time. It performs large-scale cross-correlation of time series data recorded by networks…

• WetAI: Collaborative Neurobiology 

  

  Partners David Haussler, Scientific Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.  Matt Elliot, PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute  David Parks, PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Department of Computer Science  Lon Blauvelt, Software Engineer, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute  SSEC Engineers Cordero Core, Senior Research Software Engineer  Don Setiawan, Senior…

• Offshore Geodesy: Advancing Research and Collaboration in Seafloor Deformation 

  

  Partners David Schmidt, Principal Investigator, University of Washington Dept. Of Earth and Space Sciences  John DeSanto, Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Washington Dept. Of Earth and Space Sciences  SSEC Engineers Don Setiawan, Senior Research Software Engineer, SSEC The Near-trench Community Geodetic Experiment, informally known as Offshore Geodesy, is a five-year NSF-funded project aimed at establishing…

• Neglected Diagnostics: Democratizing Genetic Testing

  

  Partners Hal Holmes, Chief Engineer, Conservation X Labs  Misa Winters, Senior Molecular Scientist, Conservation X Labs  Cifeng Fang, Principal Engineer, Conservation X Labs  SSEC Engineers Aniket Fadia, Research Software Engineer, SSEC Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Senior Principal Software Engineer, SSEC Genetic testing is routinely relied upon to detect illegal trafficking of wildlife, the introduction of…