Nicky Wright is fascinated by the earth’s geologic history. She is currently researching paleogeography throughout the Phanerozoic and combines GPlates, an open source plate tectonic software, with the online global Paleobiology Database to reconstruct past environments. "I am learning how to unravel the secrets of past worlds..."
Researchers
Sabin Zahirovic is a PhD candidate at the School of Geosciences in the University of Sydney conducting research on the plate tectonic history and evolving geography of our planet through geological time. Sabin has studied the history of the collision between the Indian and Eurasian continent that was responsible for the uplift of the Himalayas and Tibet.
Maria Seton is an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. She works in the field of plate tectonics and geodynamics, reconstructing the configurations of the continents and ocean basins over hundreds of millions of years using GPlates, a Virtual Geological Observatory prototype.
Dr Shelley Wickham is a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Working in Associate Professor William Shih’s lab, the entire lab uses an open-source electronic lab book. Shelley shares her research story.
Associate Professor Martin Sevior performs experiments with the world's highest intensity and energy particle accelerators in Japan and at CERN in Switzerland. He shares his research story.
Izabela Ratajczak-Juszko is a Research Fellow at the Climate Change Adaptation Programme of the Global Cities Institute at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She shares her research story.
We are interested in showcasing researchers and how they might potentially use Nectar. Why not share your research story with us and how Nectar may help you? Please fill in this form or email communications@nectar.org.au
As a final year veterinary student, Chairman of the NeCTAR project Board, Dr Graham Mitchell AO wrote an essay on the thymus gland - and has been hooked on immunology ever since. Today he is one of Australia's top biological scientists and holds an Order of Australia.
Latest News ...
18.04.12
NeCTAR is proud to announce that it has signed its first e-research tool contract with the University of Western Australia for a project to create a new cloud-based bio-informatics tool to help researchers better analyse and collect phenotypic, genotypic, pedigree and biospecimen data.
15.12.11
The Virtual Physiological Human is a €207 million research project running from 2007 to 2013 in Europe. The project combines top scientists, mathematicians, computer technicians and doctors in order to create a digital representation of the human body. At its core, it employs grid and cloud computing technologies to store, share and compute information. It is considered this project has potential far reaching implications to save millions of lives in the future.
14.10.11
NeCTAR recently travelled to Boston in the United States to collaborate with international experts about 'Open Stack', the open source cloud platform being used by the NeCTAR to build an Australian research cloud. It is exciting times. Dr Steven Manos shares his journey.
15.11.11
From November 3 until November 11, 2011, NeCTAR attended eResearch Australasia 2011 held in Melbourne at the Sebel Citigate. NeCTAR sponsored a booth and spoke at the conference at a Birds of a Feather session.
13.01.12
The NeCTAR Expert Panels have analysed all proposals and a list of projects progressing to the contract negotiation phase is now available. The breakdown of recommended projects is: 5 Virtual Laboratories in the fields of astronomy, environmental change/weather science, humanities, characterisation and genomics; 15 eResearch Tools across a mix of disciplines and 3 Research Cloud proposals. Read on for the full list.
18.11.11
The deadline to submit stage one NeCTAR project proposals was 2 November 2011. NeCTAR received 75 project proposals. A selection panel will now follow a formal process to recommend a portfolio of proposals. NeCTAR would like to thank all involved.
09.08.11
Nectar's Virtual Laboratories are creating a new era of digital connectivity on a national scale for Australian researchers.
27.06.11
You have an opportunity to influence Nectar's tools and applications. Now is the time to talk to your research communities, collaborate with your IT partners and software engineers and see whether it is possible.
27.06.11
The National Servers Program is a robust, safe and secure hosting provider so Australian researchers don’t have to worry about anything except managing their research applications. It is free until at least December 2011 and is available now.
NeCTAR Partners
Senior software developer from Cybera in Alberta, Canada, Everett Toews, recently visited Melbourne to offer his support to Australia's Research Cloud. He shares his experience building clouds. Everett is a keen scuba diver, since 2004. He is seen in these photos playing hockey underwater in Hawaii.
A NeCTAR partner is a friend, an individual or a group doing something of interest to the NeCTAR project. They are not necessarily someone with an economic or stakeholder interest in NeCTAR. As NeCTAR is partnering with a broad range of disciplines; eResearch communities and their computing partners, there are lots of interesting stories to tell. Please email: communications@nectar.org.au
Canada has embarked on building a Research Cloud. Read more about their journey via an interview with technical architect John Shillington.
