National Workshop on Data Science Education Featured Multiple Hub Talks
Organized by UC Berkeley's Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, with support from Microsoft and the West Big Data Innovation...
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT ARCHIVE
- Aug 1
Ashley Atkins Reflects on Her West Hub Leadership Role and Future Direction
By: Ray Chen, Research Experience for High School Students, San Diego Supercomputer Center The West Big Data Innovation Hub recently...
- Jul 1
Pala Native American Youth Receive DataJam Award with Guidance from West Hub Science Writer
Staff from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego - including West Hub Science Writer Kim Bruch - recently worked with...
- Jun 1
West Hub Affiliate Researcher Leads Efforts to Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
For over a year of the pandemic, a group of UC San Diego researchers met weekly with epidemiologists at the County of San Diego Health...
- May 2
Applying Big Data to Restore Nevada’s Walker Lake
Part of the ancestral home of the Northern Paiute people, Nevada's Walker Basin has provided a source of water for the area's booming...
- Apr 4
Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal Serves as Model for West Hub
Knowledge of climate patterns is critically important for a variety of resource management issues, including groundwater and surface water..
- Mar 1
West Hub Congratulates Elizabeth Leake on her new role with Boise State University
Boise State University's Office of Information Technology recently announced that Elizabeth Leake has joined the team as the director of...
- Feb 1
NSF HSI National STEM Resource Hub Offers Virtual Workshops in February and March
Hispanic Serving Institutions faculty and staff will have the opportunity to prepare and submit more grant applications for the NSF...
- Jan 3
West Hub’s Principal Investigator Elected as Secretary General for CODATA
Christine Kirkpatrick, West Hub Principal Investigator and Division Director of Research Data Services at the San Diego Supercomputer...
- Dec 1, 2021
West Hub Member Ilkay Altintas Leads Project to Proactively Fight Fires
By: Cynthia Dillon, SDSC Communications and Kimberly Mann Bruch, West Hub To mitigate the threat of massive wildfires, fire managers and...
- Nov 1, 2021
West Hub Participates in New NSF Project: Supporting Transboundary Aquifer Resiliency
Transboundary aquifers, which are deep subsurface water sources shared by multiple countries, have long been a critical source of water...
- Oct 1, 2021
West Hub Supports Workshop Showcasing the Use of the Commercial Cloud for Research
Organized by the CloudBank project partners at the University of Washington (UW), UC Berkeley, the University of California San Diego and...
- Sep 14, 2021
University of Montana’s Dr. Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills Shares Insight for Increased Indigenous
For more than 45 years, the Society for Advancement of Advancing Chicano/Hispanic and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) has supported...
- Sep 1, 2021
Data in Action Spotlight: Advancing the Study of the Body’s Metabolic Systems through Bold App
Have you ever wondered how the “normal” resting heart rate for your age group, used by your doctor, was determined or how the American...
- Aug 17, 2021
Using Machine Learning to Improve Urban Mobility and Transportation
An Yan, who received her doctorate degree in information science at the University of Washington (UW) earlier this year, and Bill Howe,...
- Aug 2, 2021
Building Tribal Capacity with Water Research Partnerships Workshop: A Reflection
This piece was written by: Alice Lei, Research Experience for High School Students, West Hub Intern, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC...
- Jul 26, 2021
Big Data Spotlight: Oregon Scientists Publish Novel Watershed Findings
Oregon State University Echohydrologist Carlos Ochoas has spent his career examining how watersheds and riparian systems work and ways to...
- Jun 25, 2021
West Hub Affiliates at Arizona State University Pave Way for FAIR Models with CoMSES.Net
Around this time last year, in May 2020, West Hub affiliate Michael Barton and colleagues published an open letter in Science that urged...
- May 26, 2021
West Hub Community Spotlight: Alaska Projects Focused on Data-Driven Environmental Systems
Chris Turner, who has been working on an array of National Science Foundation-funded data science projects in Alaska for many years,...
- May 11, 2021
Making it COUNT: Celebrating All Participants
As we wrap up the Let’s Make it COUNT initiative, we wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate the winning entries and ALL the...