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NoisePy: Ambient Field Seismology
Partners: Marine Denolle, Yiyu Ni, and Kuan-Fu Feng SSEC Engineers: Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez and Ishika Khandelwal Research Goals and Domain The Earth’s ambient field contains a great deal of information about its structure. Changes in this structure occur at a vast range of temporal and spatial scales. We can record these changes thanks to…
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Wet AI: Collaborative Neurobiology
Partners: David Haussler, Matt Elliot, David Parks, and Lon Blauvelt SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core and Don Setiawan Research Goals and Domain Cerebral organoids are synthetic tissues derived from induced or natural stem cells within a laboratory setting. Once they are differentiated, these structures offer an avenue for researchers and students to probe and stimulate neural…
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Offshore Geodesy: Advancing Research and Collaboration in Seafloor Deformation
Partners: David Schmidt and John DeSanto SSEC Engineers: Don Setiawan and Madhav Kashyap Research Goals and Domain The Near-Trench Community Geodetic Experiment, is a five-year NSF-funded project aimed at establishing open and accessible seafloor deformation data in the Alaska and Cascadia regions, both notorious for witnessing some of the largest earthquakes and tsunamis in recorded…
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Neglected Diagnostics: Democratizing Genetic Testing
Partners: Hal Holmes, Misa Winters, and Cifeng Fang SSEC Engineers: Aniket Fadia, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, and Rashmika Reddy Research Goals and Domain Genetic testing is routinely relied upon to detect the illegal trafficking of wildlife, the introduction of invasive species and pathogens, as well as monitor disease spread or outbreaks that can devastate the…
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Investigating Structure of Social Science Research Datasets for Better ML Evaluation
Project Lead: Bernease Herman, eScience Data Scientist Specialized machine learning architectures, such as deep learning, typically rely on inductive biases and other data-specific correlational structure information to produce more effective models. Similarly, the design and evaluation of differentially private synthesizers depends heavily on the correlational structure of the datasets most commonly used in the field. We…
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Wetland Communities in the US
Project Lead: Celina Balderas Guzman, UW Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Data Science Lead: Spencer Wood Sea level rise threatens human communities on the coast with a variety of hazards including erosion and flooding. However, these risks are reduced in locations where coastal wetlands provide a natural buffer that absorbs the force of waves created by storms.…
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Characterizing the spatio-temporal evolution of marine heatwaves
Project Lead: Cassia Cai, UW Oceanography Faculty Advisor: LuAnn Thompson, UW Oceanography Data Science Lead: Valentina Staneva Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are defined as discrete periods when local sea surface temperatures (SST) exceed a temperature threshold (e.g., a seasonally varying temperature threshold). A number of high-profile MHWs, such as the Great Barrier Reef 2002, Mediterranean Sea 2003 and 2006,…
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The Prototype of a Cloud Store for Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data
Project Lead: Yiyu Ni, Earth and Space Sciences, UW College of the Environment Data Science Leads: Naomi Alterman and Rob Fatland Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is an emerging seismic observation method that has recently enabled entirely new types of geophysical observation. DAS utilizes repeated laser pulses along optical fibers up to ~100 km in length to measure phase changes…
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Constructing a robust metric of peak quality for untargeted mass-spectrometry
Project Lead: Will Kumler, UW Oceanography Faculty Advisor: Anitra Ingalls, UW Professor of Chemical Oceanography Data Science Lead: Bryna Hazelton Mass spectrometry is a cutting-edge analysis field used to identify the molecular composition of samples taken from medical laboratories, the depths of the ocean, and even outer space. In the Ingalls Lab at UW, we use it to…
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Leveraging large satellite archives to understand the timing and distribution of global snowmelt
Project Lead: Eric Gagliano, Terrain Analysis and Cryosphere Observation Lab, UW Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Advisor: David Shean, UW Civil & Environmental Engineering Data Science Lead: Scott Henderson Seasonal snow plays an essential role in the Earth system and more than 1/6 of the world’s population relies on runoff from seasonal snow and glaciers for agricultural and…