Ocean acidification is affecting our state’s oyster industry, and has been for seven years. That’s why Governor Gregoire put together a Blue Ribbon Panel for Ocean Acidification, which met on Wednesday to discuss the nature and implications of ocean acidification in Washington. Many of our CoEnv scientists sit on the panel. Read more here.
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Tickets are on sale now for an extraordinary environmental forum—one that will change the way you see green. Presented by University of Washington’s College of the Environment, College of Arts and Sciences, and Conservation Magazine, Conservation Remix is a one-day event packed with revolutionary ideas for a greener future. You’ll hear from engineers, architects, entrepreneurs, and more who have unexpected and transformative solutions to big environmental problems. Topics include eating invasive species to stop their spread, cement that absorbs—rather than spews—carbon dioxide, nature-inspired engineering, and the country’s first indoor vertical farm. Where: Town Hall Seattle
Dances with data: Tools for turning information into visual stories. With the accelerating accessibility of data, from satellite imagery, genomics and all ‘omics, digitized historical records, and more, answering research questions is now as much about working — and playing — with existing data as about gathering new data. What are the most effective ways to explore your data and extract meaning from it? How can others — scientists, managers, the public – explore or even contribute to the data behind your graphics? At this month’s #sosea we will highlight some of the slickest tools and methods for creating insights from data, and discuss what is — and isn’t — changing about data visualization in an age of informatics and open science. Join us!
PANELISTS Eugene Kolker, Chief Data Officer at Seattle Children’s Research Institute and Co-Founder and President of Data-Enabled Life Sciences Alliance International. The Kolker Lab’s work is on data-enabled science, predictive analytics, biomedical, bio- and health informatics, high-throughput analyses, and proteomics. Their work in predictive analytics includes exploring factors that influence the health and care of patients, strategic development and resource management of Seattle Children’s Hospital, the national levels of support for the sciences, as well as economic modeling of Seattle. DELSA Global is a community-based, but international initiative to connect experts, share data, and democratize science. Dustin Smith, Senior Product Consultant at Tableau. Justin’s whole job is to play with data! He works closely with Tableau Public & Digital products. Hunter Hadaway, Creative Director at Center for Environmental Visualization. The custodian of creative cleanup, Hunter manages the design, development and deployment of all aspects of CEV’s graphical output. His specialties are graphic design, 3-D modeling, animation, interface design, web development, and video design/editing. Rob Fatland, Microsoft Research Connections research program manager. Rob has been called the “evangelist of Layerscape“, a product that allows earth scientists to analyze and visualize giant loads of data. If you can’t attend, we’ll be streaming the event live at http://new.livestream.com/scioWC/ and you can follow it on Twitter using the hashtag #soSEA. CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION… After the event, we will adjourn to Big Time Brewery & Alehouse on the Ave. From Puget Sound’s endangered southern residents to the transient whales living hundreds of miles offshore, filler whales are inhaling bacteria, fungi and viruses once believed to be found only on land. Some of the pathogens are highly virulent. And some are even antibiotic-resistant. This article discusses the work of CoEnv alum/NOAA NWFSC scientist Brad Hanson and UW affilate professor David Bain to understand these dynamics and their implications is discussed. A new competitor in the burgeoning field of crowd-funding has emerged: Microryza, a site developed by former UW researchers who were fed up with the costly and bureaucratic way that science is funded in the US. CoEnv affiliated scientist Josh Tewksbury is one of the people using this new site to share and fund his research. Check it out here! Mark your calendars for next Monday, April 16, because not one but two conversations will take place around the doing and communicating of science in a digital world. First up, a panel discussion “A Tale of Three Websites” will take place from 330-430pm in Foege s 060. This is the fifth in the WSG/COSEE-OLC sponsored “Beyond the Ivory Tower” series, and will explore research in cyberspace, from the perspective of 3 websites, including SAFS. Then, stay on campus for the inaugural ScienceOnline Seattle, a monthly conversation that will take place at 7pm-9pm in William H. Gates Hall, room 133. The first discussion will feature Dean Lisa Graumlich, as well as Brian Glanz, Open Science Federation and Firas Khatib and Seth Cooper, Foldit. Can’t be on campus for this event? No problem — it will be livestreamed and tweeted under the hashtag #sosea. Check out the blog posts at Nature and Scientific American for background on this event. We hope to see you there! |
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