Program: Sustainable Agriculture Program
Closing Date: Thursday, September 28, 2017
The purpose of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program is to encourage research and outreach designed to increase knowledge concerning agricultural production systems that:
1.maintain and enhance the quality and productivity of the soil;
2.conserve soil, water, energy, natural resources, and fish and wildlife habitat;
3.maintain and enhance the quality of surface and ground water;
4.protect the health and safety of persons involved in the food and farm system;
5.promote the well-being of animals; and
6.increase employment opportunities in agriculture (7 U.S.C. 5801 and 5811).
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A week-long workshop held at the University of California, San Diego that focuses on a broad spectrum of introductory-to-intermediate topics in High Performance Computing and Data Science. The program is aimed at researchers in academia and industry, especially in domains not traditionally engaged in supercomputing, who have problems that cannot typically be solved using local computing resources. This year’s Summer Institute continues SDSC’s strategy of bringing High Performance Computing to the Long Tail of Science, i.e. providing resources to a larger number of modest-sized computational research projects that represent, in aggregate, a tremendous amount of scientific progress.

The registration fee is $300 and includes coffee and lunch, it is due only after the application is accepted.

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The Software Carpentry workshop, sponsored by CEREO and WSU’s Graduate and Professional Student Association is another two-day, hands-on event geared towards those interested in developing core skills for working with data effectively and reproducibly.  This workshop covers how to use the command line, git, and building programs in R (e.g. functions, loops).  Participants work through short tutorials and practical exercises done via live coding.  No prior experience with R or programming is necessary. This workshop will be held 6–7 April 2017. Register today

UI Library, Saturday May 7th, 2017 & Sunday May 8th, 2017

Learn how to better communicate your research and outreach objectives through creative data visualization. This workshop will feature visualization expert Skye Moret of Periscopic (www.periscopic.com) and is intended for participants from ANY discipline who are interested in enhancing their communication skills. During the workshop participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of effective data visualization and communication, which includes best practices in graphic design and the sciences. We will get hands-on experience by helping to develop communication materials to highlight recent stream restoration efforts of Paradise Creek.

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