Events of NM EPSCoR Partners
Mark your calendars for 1:30 PM on Saturday, June 25th. The keynote speaker for CESE's annual meeting, Lawrence Krauss, will be speaking on
“Gravity Waves: a Journey to the Beginning of Time.”
Free and open to the public!
Creative Startups will be hosting free webinars for questions about the program or the application process.
June 1st 4pm EDT / 2pm MDT
June 13th 7pm EDT / 5pm MDT
June 28th 10am EDT / 8am MDT
June 28th 6pm EDT / 4pm MDT
RSVP here, https://app.reviewr.com/s1/site/CreativeStartups
Questions?
Email Amy Slater at amy@creativestartups.org
The STEM Symposium is hosted by the Math and Science Bureau at the Public Education Department (PED) for 500 K–12 teachers of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
The symposium will be held on June 3-4, 2016 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Albuquerque.
STEM + Literacy = Success! NM STEM Symposium Friday June 3, 2016 7:30am - 5:00pm
Saturday June 4, 2016 8:00 am - 3:00pm Embassy Suites, Albuquerque.
The symposium professional learning sessions will focus on the following areas:
Several key themes have emerged that begin to define a path towards functional infrastructure. A central theme is the broad and careful use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) for data, documents, data types, instruments, people, etc., so that computers can unambiguously identify and locate key resources and their descriptions. One particular use of identifiers is in data citation and referencing. Pulling from examples within the research data management community, this webinar will discuss data citation infrastructures, solutions, and challenges.
The Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is an NSF-supported DataNet project which is developing a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data. Now in its seventh year of funding, DataONE has released a number of tools, services and programs that support users in their data management, discovery, preservation and education needs.
Online platforms like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo have revolutionized the way makers, gamers, app designers, and artists fund their new ventures. Crowdfunding has become so prolific it is set to surpass venture capital funds in 2016. Now famous brands such as Oculus Rift and Pebble Watch got their start on crowdfunding sites.
Since 1998, Software Carpentry has evolved from a week-long training course at the US national laboratories into a worldwide volunteer effort to improve researchers' computing skills. In this webinar, Software Carpentry's co-founder will explore what's been learned along the away about what scientists, engineers, and other researchers actually need to know about programming in order to make their work more shareable, more reproducible, more likely to be correct, and more efficient.
The New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute (NM WRRI) will host a three-day conference in May 2016 to facilitate the exchange of data and ideas among four states, three Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regions, two Tribes, and numerous local and municipal agencies and public water systems. The conference will bring together an estimated 200 participants to gain a better understanding of the theme of the conference, Environmental Conditions of the Animas and San Juan Watersheds with Emphasis on Gold King Mine and other Mine Waste Issues.
Drawing from examples within the taxonomic and natural history collection communities, this webinar will detail the data types and challenges of biological specimen data. We’ll explore the value and import of data quality open resources, the current status of data assurance practices as well as some more practical 'how-to’ examples of implementing data quality assurance (QA) methods. For example, QA of publicly shared data is critical for effective use and reuse. As part of the data life cycle, QA often occurs following the collection of data.
Historically, energy policy has been developed without considering the impact on water and climate policy may not consider the impact on energy. Solutions to these complex problems requires policy that considers tradeoffs between systems and is acceptable to society. EPSCoR Social and Natural Science Nexus component co-lead Dr. Janie Chermak will discuss her research on some of the interactions between systems and the impact of people’s taste and preferences with a focus on NM’s energy and water sectors, and how the state’s attitudes about energy development may impact policy.