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Contest Description
The World Data System is an interdisciplinary body of the International Science Council promoting universal and equitable access to quality-assured scientific data and associated services. With generous support from Canada’s New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization (NDRIO), the World Data System International Technology Office (WDS-ITO) is running a competition to highlight the use of WDS Regular and Network member data in Virtual Research Environments. 2 cash prizes of CAD$1,000 each will be awarded. In addition to the prize, we will recognize the winners in early spring 2022 and highlight their achievements on the WDS website.
We want to know more about how researchers, students, developers, and data scientists facilitate the pipeline of data between repositories and analytics engines, and we’re inviting you to show us your solutions. The purpose of the award is to incentivize and document innovative use, analysis, or visualization of WDS member data in Virtual Research Environments.
Virtual Research Environments (VRE), also called science gateways (SG) or virtual labs (VL), are platforms that promote innovation and collaboration within a scientific community. Examples of VREs include well-established community platforms like XSEDE, iReceptor, and GenAp. For the purposes of this prize, we also consider computational notebooks to be a type of lightweight VRE, such as Jupyter Notebooks or RStudio. The Science Gateway Community Institute provides a large catalog of VREs, though this is not a comprehensive list.
Judging Criteria
- Value added to the scientific community: Does it contribute to a known research issue or societal ill? Does it help inform decision makers?
- Innovation in approach and style: Does the submission introduce novel ways of approaching a problem?
- Reusability of end product: Can the submission be used by other members of the research community? How broad are the circumstances by which the submission can be reused?
- Usability and removing barriers to entry: Is the solution user-friendly? Does the documentation accurately describe the workflow, is it readable and actionable? How complex is the technical background required to implement the solution?
Important Dates
- Data Prize Opens: August 25, 2021
- Data Prize Closes: December 1, 2021
- Award Announcement: February 2022
Entry
The submission form is available for download. Please email your submissions to Soulaine Theocharides (
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Where: The Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
When: Wednesday 3rd November 2021
Guest Speaker: Michael Mann - Ambassador at Large, EU Special Envoy for Arctic matters
10.00 – 11:00 at the Sala d’Actes, Reunions i Juntes.
Capacity with current COVID-19 restrictions is about 50 persons, but the lecture will be recorded and available at www.svs.is
Welcome: Dr. Eduard Ariza, Director, CER- ARCTIC, the UAB Arctic Research Centre
Introductions: Dr. Melody B. Burkins, Director, Institute of Arctic Studies (IAS), Dartmouth College and Dr. Níels Einarsson, Director of the Stefansson Arctic Institute (SAI)
The 2021 Stefansson Memorial Lecture - The EU‘s Stronger Arctic Engagement.
Mr. Michael Mann, EU Special Envoy for Arctic matters will explain the background to the European Union‘s engagement in Arctic matters and set out the main strands of the EU‘s updated Arctic policy, which was published on October 13 2021.
Discussion with audience. Moderator Dr. Níels Einarsson
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and refreshments (UAB)
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SEVENSEAS Media just released a second newsletter for the month of October 2021
Newsletter includes
- The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Completes the Largest Coral Reef Survey and Mapping Expedition in History
- Where Are the Fish Going? Unsustainable Fishing Practices Leading to Fishery-Induced Evolution
- Zero-Waste Week: The Beauty Brands Reducing Their Plastic & 5 Ways To Be More Eco-Friendly
- Events & webinars
- NOAA science seminars
- News, reports and announcements
- Contests, awards and funding
- Oceans job list
- Internship and volunteer opportunities
The SEVENSEAS newsletter for October 2021 is available for online viewing.
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Please find attached a policy brief compiled by the international research community on sea-ice biogeochemistry (BEPSII). BEPSII is supported by CliC, SCAR, SOLAS and IASC.
https://sites.google.com/site/bepsiiwg140/home
The brief highlights key points from three recent policy-relevant publications on Arctic climate change impacts on sea-ice ecosystems, ecosystem services and geoengineering impacts on sea-ice biogeochemistry.
For more information please contact Dr Nadja Steiner, at
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When: Nov. 21 – 23, 2021
Where: Kobe University, Japan
The Wilson Center's Polar Institute is pleased to co-sponsor the 14th Polar Law Symposium, which will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Polar Cooperation Research Centre (Kobe University, Japan), Polar Law Institute (University of Akureyri, Iceland), Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law – Arctic Centre (University of Lapland, Finland), University of the Arctic and its Arctic Law Thematic Network (Finland).
Mr. Evan T. Bloom, Senior Fellow, Polar Institute, will join a panel entitled, "Polar ocean governance through the two marine ecosystem/fisheries agreements," in which he and Dr. Joji Morishita, Professor, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, will provide insights on the future directions of the 1980 Convention for Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and 2018 Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean.
Registration is open now for participation online and in-person: https://2021polarlawsymposium.org/