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Biodiversity Horizons: Predicting Climate Risks
Partners: Christopher Trisos, Cory Merow, Andreas Schwarz Meyer, and Ben Carlson SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core, Niki Burggraff, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, and Ishika Khandelwal Research Goals and Domain As global temperatures rise, preserving biodiversity is essential for the planet’s health and human well-being. However, current biodiversity risk projections are often limited to a few snapshots…
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Phylo2Vec: Accelerating Phylogenetic Research
Partners: Samir Bhatt, Neil Alexandre Scheidwasser, and Frederik Mølkjær Andersen SSEC Engineers: Don Setiawan, Madeline Gordon, and Ayush Nag Research Goals and Domain A phylogenetic tree is a diagram that illustrates the shared evolutionary history of a group of species. This diagram is represented as a bifurcating binary tree; a structure in which each node,…
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Post Disaster Comms: Resilient Communities
Partners: Cynthia Chen, Kurtis Heimerl, Dan Abramson, Esther Jang, and Ridley LeDoux SSEC Engineers: Niki Burggraf, Don Setiawan, Anuj Sinha, Parvati Jayakumar, and Ying-Hsiang Huang Research Goals and Domain Natural disasters isolate communities, leaving them to fend for themselves. UW THINKlab is interested in the untapped physical and social capacity within communities to drive their…
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IDD Data Portal: Centralized Insights
Partners: Sunny Juul, Kari Stephens, Josh Lovseth, and Grace Sun SSEC Engineers: Robert Culver and Anshul Tambay Research Goals and Domain One in six children have an intellectual and/or developmental disability (IDD). Despite this high prevalence, there are critical gaps in knowledge on how and when children present with potential IDD. Furthermore, there is incomplete…
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CECI Database: Modernizing for Scale
Partners: Juliet Taylor, Dayton Allemann, and Jason Welch SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core and Don Setiawan Research Goals and Domain Developed as a collaboration between early learning professionals and the University of Washington Cultivate Learning, the Coach and Educator Community Interface (CECI) is an online platform that powers professional development for early childhood educators. Coaches and…
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Genetic Forensics: Streamlining Poaching Investigations
Partners: Sam Wasser, Mary Kuhner, and Ryan Horwitz SSEC Engineer: Niki Burggraf Research Goals and Domain The University of Washington’s Center for Environmental Forensic Science has revolutionized the field of wildlife crime investigation with advancements in genetic forensics. Researchers developed tools to compare seized elephant tusks to DNA from seized ivory reference databases. This determines…
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NAIRR: Pilot Exploration
Partner: Rob Fatland SSEC Engineer: Niki Burggraf Research Goals and Domain The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) is a National Science Foundation funded effort aiming to connect U.S. researchers to the computational, data, software, model and training resources they need to participate in AI research. As a member of the CloudBank team, the UW…
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Caustics: Simulating Gravitational Lensing
Partners: Yashar Hezaveh, Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, and Connor Stone SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core and Don Setiawan Research Goals and Domain Gravitational lensing occurs when a large mass (e.g. a galaxy) lies between an observer (Earth) and a light source (another galaxy). These chance alignments magnify and multiply the image and background source in a variety of…
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AutoDoc: Automated Documentation of Empirical Research
Partners: Sebastian Musslick and Younes Strittmatter SSEC Engineer: Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez Research Goals and Domain Reproducibility is a foundational pillar of the scientific process. However, numerous empirical studies in behavioral research are difficult to replicate due to inadequate and opaque documentation of their research steps. AutoRA is a collection of Python packages that together…
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ProSpecPy: Processing FTIR Spectroscopy Data
Partner: Elizabeth Phillips SSEC Engineer: Anshul Tambay Research Goals and Domain 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 Fe) at their active sites. As…