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British Justifications for Internment without Trial: NLP Approaches to Analyzing Government Archives
Project Lead: Sarah Dreier, UW Department of Political Science and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow eScience Liaison: Jose Hernandez How do liberal democracies justify policies that violate the rights of targeted citizens? When facing real or perceived national security threats, democratic states routinely frame certain citizens as “enemies of the…
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Predicting a drought with a flood of data: Evaluating the utility of data-driven approaches to seasonal hydrologic forecasts
Project Lead: Oriana Chegwidden, UW Civil & Environmental Engineering Department PhD Candidate and Staff Scientist eScience Liaison: Nicoleta Cristea Climate change is likely to exacerbate droughts in the future, compromising water availability around the world. Those changes in water availability may not be uniform across the land surface, with changes in precipitation, snowpack, and increased…
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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…
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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…
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eScience takes on 7 projects in the 2020 Winter Incubator program
The goal of the Winter Data Science Incubator is to enable 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 machine learning,…
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Data Scientists & Researchers Gather for the 2019 Moore Sloan Data Science Summit
By Jane Koh On November 5-8, 2019, a broad group of eScience community members flew down to Sante Fe, New Mexico for the annual Moore Sloan Data Science Summit. The conference served to bring together academic data scientists and researchers from a range of disciplines to share advancements in academic research, domain applications, and structural…
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Participants reflect on Geohackweek 2019
October 15, 2019 The University of Washington’s eScience Institute hosted its fourth annual Geohackweek on September 9-13, 2019. A diverse mix of 45 participants joined us from industry, academia, government and non-profit organizations to advance our understanding of open source software tools for geoscientific research. The event was designed around the hackweek model which aims…
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Data Science for Social Good teams present their project results
By Emily F. Keller Sept. 18, 2019 On Wednesday, Aug. 21, fellows from four interdisciplinary teams presented the results of their projects at the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program. The ten-week summer program, which began in 2015, brings together student fellows, stakeholders, and data and domain researchers to work on collaborative…
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Oceanhackweek participants engage in “brainstorm” of data techniques
September 13, 2019 Oceanhackweek, a five-day learning hackathon focused on exploring, creating and promoting effective computation and analysis workflows for large and complex oceanographic data, was held Aug. 26 – 30 on the Seattle campus. We asked participants to give us their thoughts on the impact attending the event had on them; find their thoughts…
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Participants offer insight on Neurohackademy
September 5, 2019 We asked this year’s Neurohackademy participants to reflect on their experiences after joining us for this two-week neuroscience hacking event, and a record number responded! Here are there thoughts on this unique educational opportunity, in their own words. Hannah Coyle Neurohackademy 2019 was an amazing experience that left me with a very…