[Info] News from NCEAS
LeeAnne French
french at nceas.ucsb.edu
Thu Oct 2 16:26:51 PDT 2014
NCEAS had a busy and productive summer. Following is a quick update on
our summer activities, newly funded Working Groups, news about recent
science publications, and three open career opportunities with NCEAS.
We are looking forward to seeing many of you in the upcoming Working
Group meetings-
All the best,
LeeAnne
*NCEAS ACTIVITIES*
_*NCEAS and RENCI**provide bi-coastal training for early career
scientists *_ <https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/OSS>
UCSB's NCEAS and University of North Carolina's Renaissance Computing
Institute (RENCI <http://www.renci.org/>) offered a unique bi-coastal
training, Open Science for Synthesis (OSS)
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/OSS>, for early career scientists who
looking to learn new software and technology skills needed for open,
collaborative, and reproducible synthesis research. Following a
competitive application process, 45 participants
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/open-science-synthesis-announcing-2014-program-participants>
chosen for the intensive training workshop. This year the OSS workshops
were be held in both Santa Barbara, CA and Chapel Hill, NC from July 21
- August 8, 2014. During this three-week bi-coastal training, OSS
participants receives hands-on guided experience from a dynamic group of
instructors <https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/OSS#Instructors> assembled to
provide for a mixture of instructive lectures, discussions forums,
exercises, and an opportunity to apply new skills in real world
collaborative group synthesis research projects.
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First Open Science Codefest a Success
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/first-open-science-codefest-success>
From September 2 to 4, more than 70 scientists from all over the world
gathered in Santa Barbara for the first-ever /Open Science Codefest/
<http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/>. OSCodefest brought
together computer programmers and environmental scientists who typically
work in isolation to collaborate, problem solve, code, and share skills.
This conference was organized to stimulate productivity and community
building, while providing ample opportunities for collaborative coding
and design sessions. By the conclusion of the meeting, over 20 breakout
sessions had been completed, and these new collaborations for
skill-sharing and product generation will continue long beyond
OSCodefest. More>
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/first-open-science-codefest-success>
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NEWNCEAS WORKING GROUPS
SNAP announces four new Working Groups
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/snap-announces-four-new-working-groups>
SNAP: Science for People and Nature announces the addition of four new
Working Groups to its growing portfolio of solution-oriented scientific
inquiries -- from exploring how video games could overturn entrenched
perceptions about climate change to using evidence-based conservation to
make the right decisions for people and nature. The four new working
groups are:
o Evidence-Based Conservation: Making the Right Decisions
for People and Nature
<http://www.snap.is/groups/evidence-based-conservation/>
o Forest Sharing or Sparing: Maintaining Timber Production
While Improving Outcomes for Carbon, Conservation and
Water <http://www.snap.is/groups/forest-sharing-or-sparing/>
o Gaming the Future of Climate Communications: Can Video
Games Succeed Where Traditional Climate Communications
Have Failed?
<http://www.snap.is/groups/gaming-the-future-of-climate-communications/>
o Fisheries Measures: Measuring the Status of Fisheries
and Factors Leading to Success
<http://www.snap.is/groups/fisheries-measures/>
More>
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/snap-announces-four-new-working-groups>
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NCEAS launches two new Gulf of Alaska Working Groups
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/announcing-two-new-gulf-alaska-working-groups>
A quarter of a century after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Gulf
of Alaska, NCEAS collaborated with investigators from Gulf Watch Alaska
<http://www.gulfwatchalaska.org/> and the Herring Research and
Monitoring
<http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/index.cfm?FA=projects.herringResearch> program
to gather all the data collected on the ecological ramifications of the
spill overtime. Now, two new NCEAS Working Groups have been selected to
use this collated data to conduct long-term synthesis analyzes of the
region to gain new insights on the impacts oil has on biological
diversity, ecosystems, human communities, and their ability to recover.
More>
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/announcing-two-new-gulf-alaska-working-groups>
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NCEAS NEWS
Coral Reef Winners and Losers
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/coral-reef-winners-and-losers>
Contrary to the popular research-based assumption that our world's coral
reefs are "doomed," a new longitudinal study from NCEAS paints a
brighter picture of how corals will fair in the future. While there will
be winners and losers among coral species with increasing natural and
anthropogenic stressors, experts now believe a subset of the present
coral fauna will likely populate the world's oceans as water
temperatures continue to rise, at least over the next century. The
results were published on October 1, 2014 in /PLOS//ONE/. More>
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/coral-reef-winners-and-losers>
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The Ocean Health Index hits new milestones
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/ocean-health-index-hits-new-milestones>
*/ First assessments for Antarctica, Southern Ocean and the High Seas
Ocean/**/
Most comprehensive Ocean Health score -- Global Oceans score of 67
out of 100/**//*
The third annual update from the Ocean Health Index, a partnership led
by scientists from UC Santa Barbara's NCEAS and Conservation
International <http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx>, is the
first to include scores for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean (72 out of
100*) and the 15 ocean regions beyond national jurisdiction (67 out of
100 for the high seas areas). Together with the 220 Exclusive Economic
Zones (EEZs) measured in 2012 and 2013, the Index now measures all of
the oceans on planet Earth. More>
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/ocean-health-index-hits-new-milestones>
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New in PNAS: Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity
gradient
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/new-pnas-functional-trait-space-and-latitudinal-diversity-gradient>
Understanding the causes of species richness across the latitudinal
gradient is still elusive. The Botanical Information and Ecology Network
(BIEN) Working Group at NCEAS compared a range of ecological theories
for explaining biodiversity, such as neutral dynamics, competitive
exclusion, and environmental filtering, for how well these predict
functional diversity at varying scales. They found that patterns of
functional trait diversity are not consistent with any one theory of
biodiversity. These conflicting results indicate that no single
biodiversity theory considered alone is able to explain the latitudinal
gradient of species diversity in terms of functional trait space. The
findings <http://www.pnas.org/content/111/38/13745.abstract> of this
analysis recently appeared in /Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (PNAS)/.More>
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/new-pnas-functional-trait-space-and-latitudinal-diversity-gradient>
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Survival Strategies: Coral Reefs
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/survival-strategies-coral-reefs>
Corals species respond differently to disturbances in terms of growth
and recovery rate. Based on the results of a NCEAS Working Group,
scientists now know that corals reduce each others' abundance in good
times, and in tougher times with more disturbance, they can help each
other persist by reducing the chance that algae takes over a coral reef.
The results were published in/The American Naturalist/. More>
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/survival-strategies-coral-reefs>
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*
NEW CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AT NCEAS*
Opportunity to join the NCEAS Team: Scientific Programmer/Analyst
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/new-opportunity-join-nceas-team-scientific-programmeranalyst>
NCEAS seeks a Scientific Programmer/Analyst (Computer and Network
Technologist III) to consult with and advise NCEAS researchers on
efficient, appropriate, and powerful computational and informatics
approaches for advancing scientific investigations. The Scientific
Programmer/Analyst will develop, test, and support analyses and
informatics products using best-of-class and open-science inspired
technologies. The ideal candidate will give formal instruction, as well
as ad hoc assistance in the use of these cutting edge solutions. The
Scientific Programmer/Analyst works with NCEAS developers and
cyber-infrastructure collaborators to optimize interoperability and
long-term sustainability of these codebases and datasets as generalized
resources for ecological and conservation science researchers. More>
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/new-opportunity-join-nceas-team-scientific-programmeranalyst>
NCEAS seeks Postdoctoral Associates for Gulf of Alaska long term
synthesis
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/nceas-seeks-postdoctoral-associates-gulf-alaska-long-term-synthesis>
NCEAS has collaborated with investigators from Gulf Watch Alaska and the
Herring Research and Monitoring program to collate historical data from
a quarter century of monitoring studies on physical and biological
systems impacted by the Exxon Valdez Oil spill. NCEAS now
seeks**a*Postdoctoral Associate *to conduct synthesis research for the
Gulf of Alaska while in residence at NCEAS for two years starting
Fall/Winter 2014. Successful candidates will utilize data gathered by
NCEAS, along with other existing information, to conduct and publish
holistic synthesis and analyses of driving processes and perturbations
within complex ecosystem of the Gulf of Alaska. Postdoctoral Associates
will pursue their own independent synthesis of the available Gulf of
Alaska data while also collaborating with two Gulf of Alaska long-term
synthesis Working Groups. More>
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/content/postdoctoral-associates-long-term-synthesis-within-gulf-alaska>
UCSB searches for a new NCEAS Director of Development
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/nceas-seeks-postdoctoral-associates-gulf-alaska-long-term-synthesis>
UC Santa Barbara seeks a dynamic and charismatic leader as Director of
Development (Director) for National Center for Ecological Analysis &
Synthesis (NCEAS). As the leader for NCEAS fundraising, the Director
directs and manages a complex and ambitious fundraising program, leads
and oversees all levels of fundraising activities and provides vision
and strategic counsel to the NCEAS Director, as well as other campus
leaders and the Foundation. Desired qualifications and characteristics
for the Director of Development can be found at NCEAS Director of
Development.pdf
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/files/UCSB%20NCEAS%20Director%20of%20Development.pdf>.
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--
LeeAnne French, MESM
Associate Director of Communication and Outreach
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
University of California, Santa Barbara
French at nceas.ucsb.edu
805-893-7551
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