Jana Makar

Digital skills training takeaways from eResearch NZ 2020: Important topics raised & new connections made

More and more people in academia are speaking out about the eResearch capability gap. Many researchers do not know where to turn for help in managing, processing, and publishing large amounts of da... Read more

Community spirit clear at Connect events

Prior to this year's eResearch NZ conference, two new events were hosted the day before as kick-off workshops:​Carpentry Connect and REANNZ Connect. Both were inaugural events and aimed to gather l... Read more

NeSI Case Study Joseph Lane University of Waikato

Preparing students for 21st Century research

“I think that was quite helpful for students in that they were learning transferable skills that weren’t just around HPC and the data space, but were skills they could offer a PhD group."
NeSI Case Study Anna Garden University of Otago

Understanding the structure of gold and platinum nanoclusters

"These calculations create a large number of files; NeSI was able to store these files and help us navigate them."
Subject: 
Chemistry
NeSI Case Study Celine Cattoen Gilbert NIWA river forecast

New Zealand’s first national river flow forecasting system for flooding resilience

"Without NeSI’s input, we would have been much more limited. We wouldn’t have been able to develop a national-scale system running in real-time."
Subject: 
Earth Science

eResearch NZ 2020 Workshop Spotlight - Delving into machine learning on NeSI

The keynotes are booked, preliminary programme is live, and pre-conference workshops are filling up for eResearch NZ 2020! Co-hosted by NeSI, Genomics Aotearoa, and REANNZ, eReseach NZ is New Zeala... Read more

Trans-Tasman collaborations and support of diversity in eResearch

Last October, multiple NeSI team members travelled to Brisbane to participate in the 2019 eResearch Australasia conference programme, themed 'eResearch Diversity'.Since then, NeSI has participated ... Read more

New addition to the NeSI Team: Welcome Kim Frew

Please join us in welcoming the newest member to the NeSI team!Attribution:  Kim FrewKim joins the NeSI team’s Auckland office as Science Engagement Manager whilst Georgina Rae is on parental leave... Read more

NeSI Genomics Aotearoa Metagenomics Summer School

A partnership approach to building skills in New Zealand's genomics research sector

Together, NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa have the domain knowledge, technical skills, and motivation to address the skills gap facing New Zealand’s genomics and bioinformatics sector.
NeSI Case Study Cyprien Bosserelle NIWA

A fast model for predicting floods and storm damage

"Rendering this grid in the traditional way is not trivial – it would take longer to render the result than run the model each time I wanted to find errors. I approached NeSI and we started talking about visualisation."
Subject: 
Earth Science