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eScience Institute co-hosts Transportation Data Challenge Launch Event
By Robin Brooks The eScience Institute and the West Big Data Innovation Hub co-hosted the National Transportation Data Challenge Launch Event, held May 2 – 3, 2017. The event drew dozens of participants in-person at the WRF Data Science Studio and the Husky Union Building Lyceum, and more via online streaming, to learn about the…
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Cloud 101 Hands-On Immersion Workshop held
By Rob Fatland UW Research Computing, in conjunction with the eScience Institute, held its first Cloud 101 Hands-On Immersion Workshop on April 4, 2017, at the Husky Union Building. There were 46 registered participants, including researchers, faculty and students from the main UW campus, as well as researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and graduate…
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High Performance Computing Club receives grant
By Robin Brooks The UW High Performance Computing Club has been awarded a $10,000 grant to provide student access to cloud computing. “Students can apply for cloud credit and learn how to take advantage of the cloud’s capacity for massive-scale computing as well as learning best practices for cost management and data security,” according to a release on…
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Discovering Marine Trophic Interaction Patterns
Project Lead: Wu-Jung Lee, Applied Physics Laboratory eScience Liaisons: Bernease Herman and Valentina Staneva The temporal and spatial occurrence of predator-prey interactions, and the associated biomass change across the food chain, are of central importance in the marine ecosystem. Compared to net-based sampling methods, sonar systems (echosounders) offer promising potentials for quantifying such interactions, by delivering synoptic…
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Monitoring Freshwater Vulnerability to Climate Change and Human Activity
Project Lead: Catherine Kuhn, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences eScience Liaisons: Amanda Tan and Rob Fatland Rivers, lakes and streams are considered sentinels of environmental change. Deforestation, urbanization, and nutrient runoff are increasingly recognized as drivers of change for freshwaters, yet most research analyzing the impact of these forcings occurs at the watershed scale.…
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Detecting Small Particles in Low-Contrast Images to Aid in Particle Tracking
Project Lead: Alicia Clark, Mechanical Engineering eScience Liaisons: Bernease Herman and Valentina Staneva Ultrasound (US) is a safe and non-invasive imaging method commonly used in healthcare and clinical applications due to its high spatial and temporal resolution. However, there are areas of the body where low contrast makes it difficult to obtain high quality images needed…
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3D Visualization of Prostate Cancer Using Light-Sheet Microscopy
Project Lead: Dr. Nicholas Reder, Pathology eScience Liaison: Ariel Rokem Advances in microscopic imaging enable visualization of heretofore unseen 3D microanatomical features, which have the potential to transform cancer diagnostics. These novel imaging techniques have led to improved diagnostics in kidney biopsies, brain structure, and embryonic development. Light-sheet microscopy and tissue clarification techniques are a particularly…
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Cloud-Enabled Tools for the Analysis of Subsea HD Camera Data
Project Lead: Aaron Marburg, Applied Physics Laboratory eScience Liaisons: Bernease Herman and Valentina Staneva The publicly available data generated by CamHD have enormous scientific potential, with the capacity to support a wide range of geological, biological, hydrological, and oceanographic investigations using image analysis methods. However, the large size of the video archive and the lack of…
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Applying Machine Learning to the Analysis of the Large-Scale Structure of Turbulence
Project Lead: Owen Williams, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics eScience Liaison: Jake VanderPlas Turbulent flows dominate many flows of engineering interest, regulating mixing, heat transfer and drag on vehicles. While hard to concisely define, turbulence is noisy, stochastic, and contains eddies of a wide range of scales that combine to create a chaotic set of movements that…
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Poster and networking session success
By Robin Brooks The UW Data Science Poster and Networking Session, hosted by the eScience Institute, was held on February 21, 2017, at the Mary Gates Commons. Over 50 students, postdoctoral candidates and researchers representing more than 30 departments on campus presented posters. Topics ranged from tracking microbubbles to open data literacy to design technologies…