Our group has successfully completed the Open Life Science (OLS) program, which we previously wrote about getting accepted to.
The purpose of OLS, an offshoot of Mozilla Open Leaders, is to improve open science practices within life sciences communities.
The first week of May, David and I participated in a hackathon on agricultural data formats. This event was part of a project called the Agricultural Research Data Network (ARDN), which was funded by a NIFA FACT grant (2019-67021-29921).
This year I was lucky enough to attend the second CyVerse Foundational Open Science Skills ( FOSS) camp, which took place here at the University of Arizona during the week of February 17, 2020.
I represented our group at rstudio::conf 2020 during the last week of January. This conference is hosted by the organization responsible for the RStudio development environment and for many other improvements in the useability of the R programming language over the past decade, including packages and training.
The Plant and Animal Genome XXVIII conference (PAG) is the largest agricultural genomics conference in the world, and there is a lot of interest in statistics, sensing, data sharing, and software.
We are excited to announce that our group was accepted to the inaugural Open Life Science (OLS) program recently. This program is derived from the Mozilla Open Leaders program, and our team’s cohort will begin a 15 week internship in January of 2020.
Kristina has begun publishing new videos on the TERRA REF YouTube channel that demonstrate how to access and use some key TERRA REF datasets.
TERRA REF is an ARPA-E-funded project to create and deploy many sensors to collect data on crop plants at high resolution.