Event Category: National Science Foundation

Learn about writing a successful grant and the cool discoveries being made in artificial intelligence!

Thursday's focus is NSF grant writing:

Program Survey and Discussion (lead by an NSF IIS Program Director) – bring your questions!
Proposal Tactics: Unofficial Symposium (lead by an NSF IIS Program Director) PAPPG updates and changes for submissions (Research.gov) – learn what these changes mean for you!

Friday's focus is AI research:

This is a two-day event; feel free to come and go or stay for the whole thing.

Fostering the growth of a globally competitive and diverse research workforce and advancing the scientific and innovation skills of the Nation is a strategic objective of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Nation's global competitiveness depends critically on the readiness of the Nation's Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce and NSF seeks to continue to invest in programs that directly advance this workforce.

A story of data won, data lost and data re-found: the realities of ecological data preservation

Successful maintenance and accessibility of ecological data enables comprehension of the nature and causes of ecosystem change and makes informed action possible. However, much valuable data are not in institutional hands, and there are many pitfalls of non-institutional ecological data conservation. Interruptions to custodianship, outdated media, lost knowledge and the continuous evolution of species names makes conservation of such data challenging.

Improving access to data through a standardized language

Finding data can be hard and a common solution to this problem has been to create search portals. However, finding these search portals is often challenging. DataONE partially addresses this problem by providing a unified search portal over its member repositories' holdings (many with their own search portals). But it remains a problem to find DataONE's search portal in the first place.