Jana Makar

A screenshot of an interpolation simlulation run by researcher Tom Etherington.

Supporting ecological research through enhanced interpolation capability

“I will now be able to make better maps of environmental variables, and hence much better models of species distributions."
Subject: 
Earth Science

Job opportunity: DevOps and Integration Programmer

NeSI has an exciting opportunity available for a DevOps and Integration Programmer. In this role, you'll contribute within a small team of software engineers in product development, translating res... Read more

Women in HPC respond to community feedback for supporting diversity in HPC & eResearch

As part of the eResearch NZ 2021 Conference, the Australasia Chapter of Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) hosted a Birds-of-a-Feather session to share results from its recent community sur... Read more

Highlights from Carpentry Connect 2021: Bringing together New Zealand's digital skills community

Carpentry Connect 2021 was a great success with 40 people joining to learn from and network with fellow Carpentries community members. The event agenda was carefully crafted by a team of local Carp... Read more

FAIR Principles for Research Software - A growing area of interest for the NZ science community

Earlier this month REANNZ, with support from NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa, hosted eResearchNZ 2021. On the second day we held a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session entitled ‘Best Practice for FAIR and S... Read more

eResearch NZ2021: How can the eResearch community continue to ‘Level Up’?

The annual eResearch NZ conference took place both in-person and online for the first time, bringing communities in New Zealand and overseas together through virtual tools and in flexi learning spa... Read more

NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa rolling out new bioinformatics and genomics training opportunities

NeSI is pleased to be partnering with Genomics Aotearoa to deliver the following bioinformatics and genomics training opportunities for New Zealand researchers: Genomics Data Carpentry Workshop16-1... Read more

Crashes and quakes at NZ Research Software Engineering Hackathon 2020

“The driving force wasn’t so much the problem itself, but the need to share expertise across New Zealand. We wanted to elevate the software community’s skills and our own.”
A close up view of rain drops hitting a road.

Predicting precipitation using machine learning

"NeSI experts introduced new technical ideas and tools which we will use and implement elsewhere."
Subject: 
Earth Science
A photograph of DNA, coloured blue against a black background.

Developing bioinformatic approaches to epigenetics and health

"Setting up EWAS pipeline for global access is something I would not have been able to do myself."