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NFDI4Earth Newsletter

Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays

The end of a year is always an opportunity to look back: reflecting the last two years, since the NFDI4Earth started, we would like to take the chance to express our gratitude for the huge efforts of all participants. Your tireless work is highly appreciated to form a strong Community of Practice for the Earth System Sciences within the NFDI and beyond.

May the holiday season offer some time to relax and to 'charge the batteries' as well as to inspire new ideas and discoveries for your individual and our common challenges in the upcoming year!

We wish all of you a Merry Christmas as well as some relaxing days over the turn of the year and are looking forward to continuing our close collaboration in 2024!

And now enjoy reading our short NFDI4Earth Christmas Newsletter ...

The NFDI4Earth Team

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Don't miss NFDI4Earth in 2024

NFDI4Earth @ EGU 2024 - Call for Abstracts

3th NFDI4Earth Plenary 2024

New Year, new topics - Come and join the Academy Coffee Lectures

Short Spot on NFDI4Earth

NFDI4Earth Pilots

2nd cohort of NFDI4Earth Incubators

NFDI4Earth Educational Pilots

Participate in NFDI4Earth

Open Positions in NFDI4Earth

Welcome to NFDI4Earth

The University of Hohenheim

News from the Research Data Management & Earth System Science Communities

The RDA-Germany Conference 2024

Don't miss NFDI4Earth in 2024

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NFDI4Earth @ EGU 2024 - Call for Abstracts

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As we successfully contributed to several sessions and formats of this year’s EGU General Assembly, we are looking forward to meeting you at the next EGU from 14 - 19 April 2024 - this time with our own NFDI4Earth booth (more information about this will follow next year).

Please find below an overview of our NFDI4Earth co-organized sessions at EGU 2024 where you can submit adequate contributions:

Enabling reproducibility of results in Earth System Science through improved workflows

NFDI4Earth contact: I. Anders (anders@dkrz.de)

The intertwined climate and biodiversity crises: cross-scale observational and modelling approaches

NFDI4Earth contact: M. Mahecha (miguel.mahecha@uni-leipzig.de)

Connecting research data infrastructures

NFDI4Earth contact: C. Henzen (christin.henzen@tu-dresden.de), S. Hassler (sibylle.hassler@kit.edu) and C. Müller (claudia.mueller@awi.de)

Modern Earth system science visualization and exploration techniques - the balancing act between complex information, broad functionality and simple illustration

NFDI4Earth contact: P. Sommer (philipp.sommer@hereon.de)

Scaling evapotranspiration from in-situ measurements – approaches and uncertainties

NFDI4Earth contact: S. Hassler (sibylle.hassler@kit.edu)

Research data infrastructures in ESS - Bridging the gap between user needs and sustainable software solutions

NFDI4Earth contact: C. Henzen (christin.henzen@tu-dresden.de), K. Elger (kirsten.elger@gfz-potsdam.de)

World Heatflow Database

NFDI4Earth contact: K. Elger (kirsten.elger@gfz-potsdam.de)

Deadline for the ‘Call for Abstracts’ is Wednesday, 10 January 2024!

We will keep you posted on the latest developments and are looking forward to meeting you at the next EGU in Vienna ...

Christin Henzen (TU Dresden)

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3th NFDI4Earth Plenary 2024

Venue: Deutsches Hygienemuseum Dresden, Germany

Our next NFDI4Earth Plenary will take place again in the week after Pentecost from 21 - 24 May 2024 at Deutsche Hygienemuseum Dresden!

The official launch of OneStop4All is planned during the next NFI4Earth Plenary. NFDI4Earth's EduTrain platform will be ready-to-use with the first high-quality educational courses, programmes and curricula for students, teachers and scientists. The Living Hand Book will provide the first brunch of articles focusing on Research Data Management and much more and open for external contributions. The NFDI4Earth Knowledge Hub will provide information on repositories and services in the Earth System Sciences, and our User Support Network (Help Desk) will be ready for your questions and concerns.

The official programme is currently being coordinated - further information will follow from January 2024.

In addition, the plenary as a community event offers a wide range of opportunities for exchange - also in the form of searate workshops, side events and meetings; if you are planning something similar, please let us know well in advance.

The event will be free of charge, and you are most welcome!

Valentina Protopopova-Kakar (GFZ, Potsdam)

New Year, new topics - Come and join the Academy Coffee Lectures

The NFDI4Earth Academy is delighted to present a continuation of our online Coffee Lecture series, scheduled from January to April 2024. Join us every second Friday from 11:00 to 12:00 am for short lectures and talks exploring a diverse range of topics related to Machine Learning, research data management, and the NFDI. The sessions will be conducted online via Zoom. For detailed information on upcoming lectures and registration, please visit our website.

Coffee Lectures in January 2024:

Friday, 12.01.24 11-12 am - GFZ Data Services (Kirsten Elger, GFZ Potsdam) Register here!

Friday, 26.01.24 11-12 am - FID GEO: Library services to make your research more visible and accessible (Melanie Lorenz, GFZ Potsdam) Register here!

Everybody is welcome and participation is free of charge. So, grab a cup of coffee or tea and drop by virtually!

Kristin Sauerland (MARUM & Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung),

Jonas Kuppler (GFZ, Potsdam & Geo.X)

Short Spot on ... NFDI4Earth

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NFDI4Earth Pilots ‍

We are looking forward to our 3rd NFDI4Earth Pilot call in spring 2024. It will be the final cohort for the first round of NFDI4Earth, starting probably in late summer. We will have all Pilots of the current 2nd cohort up and running in 2024, working on innovative solutions in RDM in various Earth System Science domains. They will finish their pilot projects in the autumn of 2024.

You will find more information about the NFDI4Earth Pilots here.

Veronika Grupp (Universität Leipzig)

2nd cohort of NFDI4Earth Incubators ‍

All five projects in the second incubator cohort focus on data accessibility. In 2024, we will develop an app for digitizing water levels, extend an API for targeted access to climate data in a specific region, design a universal bucketing scheme for AI applications on world coordinates, and also train ESS-specific LLMs, one for coding support and one for more natural database access.

You will find more information about the NFDI4Earth Incubators here.

Steffen Busch (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

NFDI4Earth Educational Pilots ‍

New open-licensed materials to meet the educational needs of the Earth System Science community will be provided in 2024 by the NFDI4Earth EduPilots. The topics of the new pilot projects are image pre-processing, ‎ feature generation and ‎classification in remote sensing and AquaFortR: Streamlining Atmospheric Science, ‎Oceanography, Climate, and Water Research with ‎Fortran-accelerated R.

All materials will be available as Open Educational Resources (OERs).

You will find more information about the NFDI4Earth Educational Pilots here.

Farzaneh Sadeghi & Carsten Kessler (Hochschule Bochum)

Participate in NFDI4Earth

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Open Positions in NFDI4Earth

The Bavarian State Archives are one of the largest archive administrations in Germany. They safeguard cultural assets and information of lasting value for future generations and are actively involved in the development and expansion of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The Bavarian State Archives are searching for a new Research Associate in part-time, involved in NFDI4Biodiversity and NFDI4Earth. If you want to become part of the big NFDI family, please apply before 12 January 2024.

More detailed information is available on the NFDI4Earth webpage.

Peter Valena (Staatliche Archive Bayern, München)

Welcome to NFDI4Earth ‍

The NFDI4Earth consortium is pleased to officially welcome its 62nd partner, the Technische Universität Braunschweig - introduced more in detail in the next newsletter (Q1/2024), as well as its 63rd partner, the University of Hohenheim - following below.