The Steering Committee of Rhode Island NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) will host a public statewide meeting Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, in Providence. The meeting concerns the next proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Collaborative Agreement. During the meeting, the Steering Committee will present information on the next application […]
Continue reading "Meeting to explore next NSF proposal"College lab immerses high schoolers in science (With the 2013-14 school year under way, Rhode Island NSF EPSCoR’s outreach and education program for students in grades 6-12 will provide hands-on experiences in labs and out in the fields for hundreds of Ocean State students.) In a departure from the daily classroom routine, a group of […]
Continue reading "Bringing students into biotech"States design system to assess watershed health Rhode Island researchers are collaborating with their counterparts in Delaware and Vermont to create a network of high tech sensors in the watersheds of the three states. The selection of equipment is part of the process in putting a $6 million National Science Foundation grant to work, collecting real-time data […]
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Join the Center for Computation and Visualization for a workshop on the high-performance computing, data storage, and bioinformatics applications available to Brown, EPSCoR, URI and MBL researchers. The workshop will be held on Friday, October 18, 2013, from 9am – 4pm at the Digital Scholarship Lab in Brown University’s Rockefeller Library. Topics will include: • an […]
Continue reading "Bioinformatics workshop Oct. 18"Given distinct climatic periods in the various facets of the Earth’s climate system, many attempts have been made to determine the exact timing of ‘change points’ or regime boundaries. However, identification of change points is not always a simple task. A time series containing N data points has approximately N k distinct placements of k […]
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The Marine Science Research Facility at the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus is one of the most versatile seawater facilities in the country. “We can manipulate the water to be whatever temperature, salinity or filtration researchers may want,” said Ed Baker, who manages the facility. “We can chill the water, heat the water, filter out […]
Continue reading "Research facility offers seawater access"Hydrologist David Vallee looks at the intensity and frequency of rainfall, where water flows, and how species of trees, birds and insects are dying or disappearing in Rhode Island. “I can’t tell you where we’re headed, but it’s different,” Vallee told the audience gathered for a recent extreme weather seminar presented by the Metcalf Institute […]
Continue reading "Workshop explores extreme weather impact"A new, searchable database unveiled today provides scientists detailed information on more than 500 lab instruments and services available in more than 30 core facilities and laboratories at 12 institutions across the Ocean State. Representatives from Rhode Island academic and medical institutions hailed the creation of CoreRI.org as a huge opportunity for the state and its […]
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Rhode Island NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) will send three university students to the 25th annual international SuperComputing13 (SC13) Conference in November to represent the Ocean State. The three students — Layla Oesper, Brown University; Mary Penniman, Bryant University; and Brianna Mellon, Roger Williams University — earned student volunteer slots at the prestigious event […]
Continue reading "Students selected for supercomputing event"Approximately $800,000 in competitive funding is offered in support of STAC’s partnership in Rhode Island’s Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The overarching question of this agreement is “What are the impacts of climate change on marine life?” Proposals are eligible that address any of the three EPSCoR research questions: […]
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