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Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays
The end of a year is always an opportunity to look back: reflecting the last two years, since the NFDI4Earth started, we would like to take the chance to express our gratitude for the huge efforts of all participants. Your tireless work is highly appreciated to form a strong Community of Practice for the Earth System Sciences within the NFDI and beyond.
May the holiday season offer some time to relax and to 'charge the batteries' as well as to inspire new ideas and discoveries for your individual and our common challenges in the upcoming year!
We wish all of you a Merry Christmas as well as some relaxing days over the turn of the year and are looking forward to continuing our close collaboration in 2024!
And now enjoy reading our short NFDI4Earth Christmas Newsletter ...
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Don't miss NFDI4Earth in 2024
NFDI4Earth @ EGU 2024 - Call for Abstracts
3th NFDI4Earth Plenary 2024
New Year, new topics - Come and join the Academy Coffee Lectures
Short Spot on NFDI4Earth
NFDI4Earth Pilots
2nd cohort of NFDI4Earth Incubators
NFDI4Earth Educational Pilots
Participate in NFDI4Earth
Open Positions in NFDI4Earth
Welcome to NFDI4Earth
The University of Hohenheim
News from the Research Data Management & Earth System Science Communities
The RDA-Germany Conference 2024
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Don't miss NFDI4Earth in 2024
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NFDI4Earth @ EGU 2024 - Call for Abstracts
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As we successfully contributed to several sessions and formats of this year’s EGU General Assembly, we are looking forward to meeting you at the next EGU from 14 - 19 April 2024 - this time with our own NFDI4Earth booth (more information about this will follow next year).
Please find below an overview of our NFDI4Earth co-organized sessions at EGU 2024 where you can submit adequate contributions:
Deadline for the ‘Call for Abstracts’ is Wednesday, 10 January 2024!
We will keep you posted on the latest developments and are looking forward to meeting you at the next EGU in Vienna ...
Christin Henzen (TU Dresden)
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Venue: Deutsches Hygienemuseum Dresden, Germany
Our next NFDI4Earth Plenary will take place again in the week after Pentecost from 21 - 24 May 2024 at Deutsche Hygienemuseum Dresden!
The official launch of OneStop4All is planned during the next NFI4Earth Plenary. NFDI4Earth's EduTrain platform will be ready-to-use with the first high-quality educational courses, programmes and curricula for students, teachers and scientists. The Living Hand Book will provide the first brunch of articles focusing on Research Data Management and much more and open for external contributions. The NFDI4Earth Knowledge Hub will provide information on repositories and services in the Earth System Sciences, and our User Support Network (Help Desk) will be ready for your questions and concerns.
The official programme is currently being coordinated - further information will follow from January 2024.
In addition, the plenary as a community event offers a wide range of opportunities for exchange - also in the form of searate workshops, side events and meetings; if you are planning something similar, please let us know well in advance.
The event will be free of charge, and you are most welcome!
Valentina Protopopova-Kakar (GFZ, Potsdam)
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New Year, new topics - Come and join the Academy Coffee Lectures
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The NFDI4Earth Academy is delighted to present a continuation of our online Coffee Lecture series, scheduled from January to April 2024. Join us every second Friday from 11:00 to 12:00 am for short lectures and talks exploring a diverse range of topics related to Machine Learning, research data management, and the NFDI. The sessions will be conducted online via Zoom. For detailed information on upcoming lectures and registration, please visit our website.
Coffee Lectures in January 2024:
Friday, 12.01.24 11-12 am - GFZ Data Services (Kirsten Elger, GFZ Potsdam) Register here!
Friday, 26.01.24 11-12 am - FID GEO: Library services to make your research more visible and accessible (Melanie Lorenz, GFZ Potsdam) Register here!
Everybody is welcome and participation is free of charge. So, grab a cup of coffee or tea and drop by virtually!
Kristin Sauerland (MARUM & Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung),
Jonas Kuppler (GFZ, Potsdam & Geo.X)
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Short Spot on ... NFDI4Earth
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We are looking forward to our 3rd NFDI4Earth Pilot call in spring 2024. It will be the final cohort for the first round of NFDI4Earth, starting probably in late summer. We will have all Pilots of the current 2nd cohort up and running in 2024, working on innovative solutions in RDM in various Earth System Science domains. They will finish their pilot projects in the autumn of 2024.
You will find more information about the NFDI4Earth Pilots here.
Veronika Grupp (Universität Leipzig)
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2nd cohort of NFDI4Earth Incubators
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All five projects in the second incubator cohort focus on data accessibility. In 2024, we will develop an app for digitizing water levels, extend an API for targeted access to climate data in a specific region, design a universal bucketing scheme for AI applications on world coordinates, and also train ESS-specific LLMs, one for coding support and one for more natural database access.
You will find more information about the NFDI4Earth Incubators here.
Steffen Busch (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
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NFDI4Earth Educational Pilots
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New open-licensed materials to meet the educational needs of the Earth System Science community will be provided in 2024 by the NFDI4Earth EduPilots. The topics of the new pilot projects are image pre-processing, feature generation and classification in remote sensing and AquaFortR: Streamlining Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Climate, and Water Research with Fortran-accelerated R.
All materials will be available as Open Educational Resources (OERs).
You will find more information about the NFDI4Earth Educational Pilots here.
Farzaneh Sadeghi & Carsten Kessler (Hochschule Bochum)
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Participate in NFDI4Earth
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Open Positions in NFDI4Earth
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The Bavarian State Archives are one of the largest archive administrations in Germany. They safeguard cultural assets and information of lasting value for future generations and are actively involved in the development and expansion of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The Bavarian State Archives are searching for a new Research Associate in part-time, involved in NFDI4Biodiversity and NFDI4Earth. If you want to become part of the big NFDI family, please apply before 12 January 2024.
More detailed information is available on the NFDI4Earth webpage.
Peter Valena (Staatliche Archive Bayern, München)
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The NFDI4Earth consortium is pleased to officially welcome its 62nd partner, the Technische Universität Braunschweig - introduced more in detail in the next newsletter (Q1/2024), as well as its 63rd partner, the University of Hohenheim - following below.
If your institution shares our view and wants to become an active part of the initiative, you are most welcome to join the big NFDI4Earth family.
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The University of Hohenheim is a campus university in southern Stuttgart. It was founded in 1818 after the outbreak of the volcano Tambora in 1815, which caused the "year without summer" resulting in a catastrophic famine in Central Europe in 1816. The mission of the University is to perform research on food science and global food security. It consists of the three Faculties of Natural Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, and Economy and offers 40 B.Sc. and M.Sc. classes, for instance the first M.Sc. class on "Earth and Climate System Science (ECSS)" in Germany. This structure enables the University of Hohenheim to realize cross-cutting research on projects in earth system science, bioeconomy, and sustainability.
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The University of Hohenheim will work with NFDI4Earth to establish and harmonize new national and international standards for data sets on the land-atmosphere system as well as their quality control, storage, archiving, and post-processing. These data will contribute to a better understanding of land-atmosphere feedback, to the parameterization of surface and entrainment fluxes as well as to advanced simulations of weather and climate models, particularly in connection with extreme events."
Volker Wulfmeyer (University of Hohenheim)
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News from the Research Data Management & Earth System Science Communities
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The RDA-Germany Conference 2024
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The RDA (Research Data Alliance) Germany Conference 2024 is organized by RDA Deutschland e.V. in cooperation with the Helmholtz Open Science Office and the Georg-August University of Göttingen. The meeting will take place on February 21, 2024, in the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam at the Helmholtz Center Potsdam GFZ German Research Center for Geoscience.
The RDA community in Germany wants to help increase the exchange of data and make the reuse of data more efficient. Posters can be submitted as part of the conference.
Early bird registrations are possible until 12 January 2024
You will find more information about the RDA-Germany Conference 2024 here.
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NFDI Consortium Earth System Sciences | https://nfdi4earth.de
edited by: Valentina Protopopova-Kakar (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) & NFDI4Earth Coordination Office (TU Dresden)
Report news to: nfdi4earth-news@tu-dresden.de
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