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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery – Book Released
16 October 09 10:39 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of the book - The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery .  The book focuses on the change of all sciences moving from observational, to theoretical, to computational and now to the Read More...
Achieving Climate Sustainability – Article in American Meteorological Society
25 September 09 10:29 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Bill Gail has written a thoroughly thought provoking piece Achieving Climate Sustainability in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.  One of the things I really like about Bill is that he understands the challenge of climate sustainability Read More...
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Environment and Energy Workshop at Faculty Summit 2009
14 July 09 04:35 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
For the past two days at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit , we hare hosted a Environment and Energy Workshop to look at areas where computing and IT can help solve some of these grand challenges.  Output from the workshop will be posted on the Read More...
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Virtual Earth in full view
28 October 08 01:01 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Now this is a way to view Virtual Earth – talk about an immersive experience.  I would like to see how WorldWide Telescope would look on this display… PDC2008 ShowOff Entry: Multi-channel Virtual Earth Multi-channel Virtual Earth Description This Read More...
Data Mining Services in the Cloud – Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time
04 September 08 12:24 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
This is great news - Software-plus-Services that any scientist/researcher could use.  The SQL Server Data Mining folks have a Data Mining Service in the cloud they are testing out…I posted previously [ OLAP and Scientific Data & Data Mining Addins Read More...
NOAA – 2009 Climate Program Announcement
18 July 08 08:47 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Just received the Sectoral Applications Research Program announcement from Nancy Beller-Simms at the NOAA Climate Program Office.  The due date for the proposal is 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time October 9, 2008. The overall NOAA 2009 Climate Program Announcement Read More...
SCIENCE Article: An Earth Systems Science Agency?
10 July 08 01:41 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Very interesting article in current issue of Science... The United States faces unprecedented environmental and economic challenges in the decades ahead. Foremost among them will be climate change, sea-level rise, altered weather patterns, declines in Read More...
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NGO - Nonprofit Connection
10 July 08 12:48 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Just ran across the NGO Connection site – this is the place for non-profit orgs in the scientific space to look into…. NGO Connection is an online resource for non-profit groups around the world that provides resources to help advance the causes of the Read More...
Environmental Science related activities
02 July 08 05:09 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Here are some good articles on Environmental Science related activities that our researchers at Microsoft Research are involved with.  Understanding Climate Change—One Tree at a Time How Can Technology Sustain the Environment in the 21st Century? Read More...
Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1
28 April 08 11:25 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Savas has been coding again :-) - he's updated the FLUXNET Data set visualization to Silverlight  v2.  Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1 It's been a while since I touched the Fluxnet code. Given that the original release was built on Silverlight Read More...
Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats
03 April 08 04:35 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
There is a new article on the MSR Cambridge project on Skomer Island - Microsoft scientists unveil new technology to give early warning of sensitive species’ response to changing environments . Also interesting is the use of the ScatterWeb .NET SDK from Read More...
Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal
22 January 08 07:36 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Here's a link to a Russian based project - where they are mining environmental data archives.  It even has NASA WorldWind visualization plugins....there is also a web based test site .  Environmental Scenario Search Engine Research Project Portal Read More...

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