eResearch Newsletter March 2023

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National eResearch Newsletter - March 2023

Message from AeRO:

We’re delighted to be able to announce that the next eResearch-Australasia Conference #eResAU2023 (the 17^th annual event) will be held from Monday, 16^th October to Friday, 24^th October 2023 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC). Please add these dates to your diary, and start preparing your submissions now (Oral presentations, Workshops, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, Lightning Talks and Posters).

The submissions portal will be opened soon, as will the opportunity to become a sponsor for the event, and to make advance registrations. We are also keen to hear of any Keynote suggestions you may have, or other ideas to improve what is already considered a great event.

Further information as it is firmed up will be circulated to those on the Conference mailing list, and posted to the Conference website at https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/. Send email to mail@conferencedesign.com.au to be added to the Conference mailing list.

Alex Reid, Newsletter Editor.

CONTENTS:
* AARNet and Globus Technical Catch-ups: 30-Mar.
* Open Source Software in Ecology: Applications Close on 31-Mar.
* Evaluate Application Performance using TAU and E4S: 4-Apr.
* Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software: Closes 14-Apr.
* Award for Open Source Software for Data Analytics: Closes 22-Apr.
* Tech Talk 20: How LAMMPS Gets Academics Coding in C++: 26-Apr.
* Pint of Science Festival: 22 to 24-May.
* Join us at the Integrated Earth 2023 Symposium: Sep-23.
* Report Released for the Planet Research Data Commons.
* Guide to Designing Digital Research Skills Training Materials.
* ARDC Nectar Research Cloud Learning Resources.
* Calling all Diversity and Inclusion Volunteers.
* Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation Summer Newsletter.
* Voucher Scheme for Access to Phenomics Facilities.
* AARNet and the ARDC Collaboration Brings BinderHub to Researchers.

AARNet and Globus Technical Catch-ups: 30-Mar

Globus is a fast, reliable and secure managed service for challenging data movement, offered through AARNet.

AARNet is running Globus technical sessions to help researchers find out more about Globus and to discuss technical problems they are trying to solve or issues they would like to address, relating to Globus or data movement more generally. These sessions are open to everyone in the research community. Product specialists will be available to share knowledge and provide assistance.

The next online session will be on 30 March at 11 am AEDT. Visit here to find out more about Globus or register to attend: https://www.aarnet.edu.au/aarnet-globus-technical-catch-ups.

New Developers of Open Source Software in Ecology: Applications Close on 31-Mar

Early career ecologists and new software developers: The Ecological Society of Australia is calling for entries to the ARDC-supported New Developers of Open Source Software in Ecology. The award recognises the vital role of software in advancing ecological research.

Submit an entry before 31 March: https://www.ecolsoc.org.au/awards/ardc-award-for-new-developers-of-open-source-software-in-ecology/.

Evaluate Application Performance using TAU and E4S: 4-Apr

This workshop is for computational scientists who want to evaluate the performance of their parallel, scientific applications.

When/Where: 4 April 2023, 9:00am - 3:00pm AWST | Hybrid

In this workshop, you will learn about the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (https://e4s.io/) and the TAU Performance System (http://tau.uoregon.edu/) and its interfaces to other tools and libraries.

During the hands-on portion of the workshop, the instructor will attempt to collect and analyse performance data for additional user codes. Attendees are welcome to contact the instructor ahead of time to begin collecting data to discuss at the workshop. (Contact training@pawsey.org.au).

More information and register: https://pawsey.org.au/event/evaluate-application-performance-using-tau-and-e4s-april-4-5/.

2023 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software: Closes 14-Apr

The new Eureka Prize category, sponsored by ARDC, recognises and celebrates the vital role of developing and maintaining software in advancing research and scientific discovery.

ARDC and the Australian Museum invite entries from developers and maintainers of established research software, including research software engineers, authors of research software, and researchers who code. Nominees can come from academia, government, industry, citizen science groups, and not-for-profit organisations.

This Prize presents an excellent opportunity for the research community to acknowledge the important place that research software holds in the conduct of modern research.

Nominations close 14 April: https://bit.ly/ARDCEurekaPrize2023.

Award for New Developers of Open Source Software for Data Analytics: Closes 22-Apr

Entries are now open for the 2023 Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) Bill Venables Award for new developers of open source software for data analytics, sponsored by the ARDC. Entries close 22 April 2023.

The goal of this award is to encourage new open source software development from the Australian community with a view to supporting efforts to develop and share data science and statistics methodology.

There is prize money of $4000 for first prize, with a runner-up prize of $1000.

For more information and to submit, visit: https://statsocaus.github.io/venables-award/.

Tech Talk 20: How LAMMPS Gets Academics Coding in C++: 26-Apr

The molecular dynamics software package LAMMPS is a widely used, open source package. It has large chunks of code contributed by academics-turned-coders, like the speaker! In this talk we’ll explore how LAMMPS's object-oriented framework helps academics to start writing or modifying code with relatively little C++ knowledge (“From Zero to Dev!").

He will also share his journey to becoming a research software engineer (RSE), and the challenges and opportunities ahead for RSEs.

When: 26 April 2023, 2.00pm AEDT
Where: Online
Who: Dr Shern Tee, Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland

More information and register: https://eresear.ch/techtalk.

Pint of Science Festival: 22 to 24-May

Pint of Science Australia delivers science engagement through a national festival that builds the Australian public’s appreciation of science, contributes positively to combat inequity and negative stereotypes within the Australian science sector, establishes and supports cross-discipline collaborations, and celebrates and champions excellence in the Australian science and science engagement sectors.

The festival takes place this year from 22 - 24 of May 2023. See https://pintofscience.com.au/.

If you have an eResearch science story to share or would like to help other people share their research, then get involved as either volunteers or speakers. If you have any questions, get in touch at https://pintofscience.com.au/contact/.

Join us at the Integrated Earth 2023 Symposium: Sep-23

The ARDC, TERN, NCI, AuScope, ACCESS-NRI and IMOS are partnering to hold the Australian Academy of Science Elizabeth and Frederick White Research Conference, Integrated Earth 2023, face-face and hybrid on 12 and 13 September, and free to attend.

Supported by the Australian Academy of Science, this 2-day conference aims to uncover the answers to this pressing question facing researchers, scientists and STEM professionals working across the five Earth systems – geosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, which are essential for all aspects of human existence.

For more information and to register an EoI, visit: https://www.tern.org.au/integrated-earth.

Consultation Report Released for the Planet Research Data Commons

The ARDC has released the report on the feedback from consultations for the Planet Research Data Commons (Planet RDC). The Planet RDC will support earth and environmental science researchers to develop cross-sector and multi-disciplinary data collaborations on a national scale. It will bring together data from a range of sources to address the big challenges facing our environment today.

Read more: https://ardc.edu.au/article/consultation-report-released-for-the-planet-research-data-commons/

Download the report: https://zenodo.org/record/7455649#.Y-7W4nZBy3A.

Guide to Designing Digital Research Skills Training Materials

Whether you’re developing a textual guide, a presentation or a video, this self-assessment tool by the ARDC can help you align your material’s format and content with best practices.

Down the guides for free: https://ardc.edu.au/resource/guide-to-designing-digital-research-skills-training-materials/.

ARDC Nectar Research Cloud Learning Resources

Researchers: Build your practical cloud skills and knowledge with the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud’s live webinars, self-paced online tutorials and content-rich knowledge base. These free resources cover a wide range of topics from cloud basics, data storage, Jupyter Notebooks, Virtual Desktop service to R Studio and more.

Register for an upcoming learning webinar: http://bit.ly/nectartraining.
Start self-paced learning: https://support.ehelp.edu.au/support/solutions.

Calling all Diversity and Inclusion Volunteers

The Australasian Chapter of WHPC+ (https://aero.edu.au/whpc/) aims to better support diversity within and across the Australian and New Zealand HPC and eResearch sectors.

We’re seeking volunteers to help us design/build surveys, manage our social media and assist with communications. If his sounds like you – we’d love to hear from you! You can volunteer as much – or as little – as you like to suit your schedule. TIA from the team at WHPC@aro.edu.au.

Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation Summer Newsletter

The Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) at Federation University Australia recently published its summer newsletter. The issue includes updates on the National Soil Judging Competition, Managing and Enabling Soil Data project, the CeRDI server migration project, Victorian Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub podcast series.

To view the newsletter visit: https://www.cerdi.edu.au/CeRDINewsletterSummer2023.

Voucher Scheme for Access to Phenomics Facilities

Phenomics Australia is newly partnering with Therapeutic Innovation Australia (TIA) to offer research infrastructure access vouchers through the Pipeline Accelerator voucher scheme (https://phenomicsaustralia.org.au/voucher-scheme/). This scheme reduces the cost of accessing a specific capability and accelerates your translational research.

For more information, please check Phenomics Australia website (https://phenomicsaustralia.org.au/) or get in contact at contact@australianphenomics.org.au.

AARNet and the ARDC Collaboration Brings BinderHub to Researchers

Australian researchers are creating flexible and shareable code repositories using BinderHub in the Australian Text Analytics platform (ATAP), and a national BinderHub service is in development, thanks to an ARDC and AARNet collaboration.

BinderHub allows researchers to create flexible and shareable code repositories, and enables reproducible research. However, it takes considerable technical skill to set up BinderHub. But the collaboration is aimed at making it much accessible to researchers, with BinderHub becoming (for instance) part of the new HASS Community Data Lab, which is due to be released in mid-2023.

For more information: https://ardc.edu.au/article/aarnet-and-the-ardc-collaboration-brings-binderhub-to-researchers/.

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