Joanne Whittaker is a Research Fellow at the School of Geosciences in the University of Sydney. She conducts research investigating Earth-ocean system phenomena including understanding interactions between upper mantle convection patterns and the manner with which they interact with the newly forming lithosphere of ocean basins.
News from sub-projects
17.05.13
Yes it's true! We have been quiet of late. It has been a busy few months buried in code, but it is finally here, a new release of the CATAMI site. So what can it do?
Improved browsing of Campaigns and Deployments:
17.05.13
Since the release of the CATAMI classification scheme earlier this year it has been adopted by a variety of organisations, both public and private for their work.
14.05.13
The OzTrack team are proud to announce that 14 new environmental layers have been incorporated into the OzTrack website. These layers may be queried from within OzTrack to provide spatial and temporal information on habitat preference and reserve design.
10.05.13
GVL team member Simon Gladman, of the Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, is in Cambridge, UK next week, for the Applied Bioinformatics and Public Health Microbiology conference.
Researchers
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..."
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 ...
24.04.13
On April 14, 2013, the world celebrated the 10th anniversary of the United States led Human Genome Project researching the estimated 20-25,000 human genes that make up human DNA. Australia is also active in genomics research, and the NeCTAR funded Genomics Virtual Laboratory is connecting Australian Genome researchers with datasets, analysis tools and computational infrastructure. The laboratory recently saw a spike in use.
24.04.13
The NeCTAR funded project Quadrant recently released their new cloud-based eResearch tool. Free to use until June 2014 http://www.quadrant.edu.au Quadrant is built especially to create efficiencies for participant-based researchers in the disciplines of health, humanities, social science, politics, marketing and so forth.
26.03.13
During March, the NeCTAR directorate travelled to meet face-to-face the NeCTAR funded projects around Australia. Uplifiting and inspiring, The purpose of the trip was to assist projects with their reporting and communications, and ultimately their project success. Read more.
01.03.13
Lucy Guest takes us on a journey exploring the amazing features of the revolutionary NeCTAR supported e-Research tool called Drishti, empowering us to view the unseeable, such as explore the intricate internal components of ancient fossils or the human body. First developed by Dr Ajay Limaye at Vizlab, NCI, ANU, the tool is now being widely used in oil and gas exploration, dentistry, art and palaeobiology.
30.04.13
Can the Research Cloud support high-end computation? That’s the question recently discussed by around 30 members of the NeCTAR Community during a workshop hosted on 22 April 2013 by the CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics Division in North Ryde, Sydney. Participants from NeCTAR's eResearch Tools and Virtual Laboratory projects wishing to use the Research Cloud for High Throughput and High Performance Computing gathered to share their experience and coordinate their activities.
04.04.13
NeCTAR's cloud architect, Tom Fifield, has just returned from Austin Texas where he has been collaborating with a team of experts to write a book about designing, maintaining and building an OpenStack cloud. Called the OpenStack Operations Guide the team share their expertise, knowledge and journey, helpful to anyone thinking of building and deploying an OpenStack cloud.
04.04.13
The NeCTAR projects have started to release early infrastructure to researchers. Take a look at what is on offer: OzTrack http://oztrack.org a free animal tracking tool for Australian researchers and CATAMI version 1 classification scheme http://catami-australia.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/release-of-catami-classi... - just to name a few. Read more.
15.02.13
Dr Tu Nguyen is from the Department of Pathology at The University of Melbourne. She is using NeCTAR's Research Cloud to investigate and sequence breast cancer susceptibility genes. Her discoveries could significantly improve cancer diagnostics and add years to patients’ lives. New video released by Dr Steven Manos, head of University of Melbourne, ITS Research.
12.11.12
There are currently 1504 people using NeCTAR's Research Cloud and 409 have Virtual Machines in the cloud. Users of NeCTAR's Research Cloud have been filmed around Australia and made into short videos. These stories are growing in number. To view the vox pops go to: https://nectar.org.au/vox-pops-people-using-nectar-cloud
22.10.12
LinkedIn is a business oriented social networking site – helping people connect with like-minded others. NeCTAR now has a group on LinkedIn thanks to NeCTAR contracts manager Mr Andrew Stahmer, who is managing this communications channel. Please join http://www.linkedin.com/groups/NeCTAR-Project-4523781 If you have stories or for more information please contact: andrew.stahmer@nectar.org.au Also connect through NeCTAR's community forum https://www.nectar.org.au/connecting-sharing-collaborating
21.09.12
The NeCTAR directorate encourages its sub-projects to blog and have set up a new sub-project news page on the nectar website for aggregated blog feeds. http://www.nectar.org.au/news/sub-projects
