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Mapping Fungal Relationships in Trees
By: Louisa Gaylord Korena Mafune is a 2021 Washington Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the University of Washington’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where she studies the symbiotic interactions among plants, fungi, and bacteria. She received her PhD from UW’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, where she studied the root-associated fungal communities of…
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Patterns of COVID-19-related mis/disinformation on Twitter: themes of mis/disinformation and data visualizations
Project Lead: Katie Gonser, Jackson School of International Studies eScience Liaison: Jose Hernandez This project looks at COVID-19-related mis/disinformation in Louisiana and Washington state during the first two surges of the pandemic. Part of a broader collaborative study between social scientists at the University of Washington and computer scientists at Louisiana State University (LSU), this research…
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Geometry of Color: Connecting spectral topography of the central cone photoreceptor mosaic to functional limits of the human trichromatic visual system
Project Lead: Sierra Schleufer, Neuroscience eScience Liaison: Bryna Hazelton Humans experience remarkable visual acuity among mammals thanks to a retinal mosaic in which cone photoreceptors sensitive to three spans of the visual spectrum are increasingly concentrated toward the central visual field. Our trichromatic vision allows us to discriminate hues along two spectrally opponent axes in addition to…
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Climate Refuge in Urban Areas: Using Spatial Data to Identify Risk and Benefit Tradeoffs
Project Lead: Rebecca Neumann, Civil & Environmental Engineering eScience Liaison: Spencer Wood and Scott Henderson In Washington State, climate change is causing more frequent summer water shortages, wildfire, flooding, poor air quality, heat-related illnesses, respiratory illnesses, and mental health stress. Socially and economically disadvantaged people are disproportionately impacted by these changes. Given these disproportionate impacts, there is a…
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User-friendly Tools for Oceanic Plankton Image Analysis (UTOPIA)
Project Lead: Ali Chase, Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Physics Laboratory eScience Liaison: Valentina Staneva Thanks to recent advances in instrumentation, we can now observe phytoplankton – the single-celled autotrophs that form the base of the marine food web – using automated, high-throughput microscopy. Millions of phytoplankton images have been collected from oceans and seas…
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Machine-learning-based detection of offshore earthquakes
Project Lead: Zoe Krauss, School of Oceanography, College of the Environment eScience Liaison: Scott Henderson The fault zones that cause the most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis on Earth lie beneath our oceans, but offshore seismic observations are severely limited by a lack of instrumentation and noisy data. To fully understand Earth’s geodynamics and the hazard that…
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Winter School 2022 Program Wrap-Up
The eScience Institute’s “Winter School on Data Science Tools” recently concluded, which was led by Senior Data Science Fellow Jose Manuel Magallanes, renowned Computational Policy Scientist from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, who is a visiting professor with support from the Evans School of Public Policy and the eScience Institute. The 2022 Winter School introduced…
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New Software Engineering Center to Accelerate Scientific Discovery at UW
Software engineering is vital to Seattle’s emergence as a tech leader driving a local climate of innovation. The new Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) at UW’s eScience Institute will leverage local software engineering talent to advance scientific frontiers that will change the world around us and respond to the challenges that face humanity. The SSEC,…
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Modeling and Predicting Tree Growth with Data Science
By: Louisa Gaylord Stuart Ian Graham is a graduate student in the University of Washington’s Biology program who recently published a paper with Senior Data Science Fellow and eScience Institute Research Scientist Ariel Rokem, along with others from the University of Washington, Université de Montpellier, and University of California Los Angeles. The paper, published in…
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Announcing the 2022 Winter Incubator Projects
By: Louisa Gaylord The eScience’s annual Data Science Incubator program kicked off last week, which enables 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…