Call for Ecological Researchers who want to deepen their R skills

[Elise Hellwig]

Hi D-RUGies!

There is a great opportunity coming up to level up your R coding skills.

The Delta Science Program is partnering with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) for the third time to lead a collaborative synthesis working group. The synthesis working group delivers high-quality training in synthetic data science, and statistical techniques and provides a focused opportunity for enhanced collaboration between scientists from federal and State agencies as well as academic scientists. The trainings are free but there is no funding provided for participation or travel.

The 2023 training included topics like mapping census data, parallel processing, git workflows, making web apps and dashboards with shiny, reproducible and automated workflows with targets, and publishing data.

The Delta Science Program is also looking for synthesis topic ideas for an upcoming synthesis working group in the fall of 2025. Please note that this is not an opportunity to collect data. Submissions should focus on identifying questions for which existing, publicly available data can be leveraged to inform Bay-Delta management needs. Ideas can be submitted by anyone, even those unable to participate in the working group.

Previous working group participants convened for three weeks of training and collaboration facilitated by experts from NCEAS. Following this working group event, participants analyzed and synthesized data using their newly developed skills to address questions important to Bay-Delta management. Outputs from the effort include multiple publications, reproducible workflows, R functions, and derived data.

• Full announcement
• Call for Participants
• Call for Synthesis Projects

Cheers,

Elise