The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and multiple US Federal Agencies have declared 2023 as “The Year of Open Science.” As researchers and educators it is important to understand what open science is and why it goes beyond simply publishing in open access journals or releasing data at the end of a research study. New technologies such as generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), i.e., OpenAI ChatGPT & Google Bard are advancing rapidly. Meanwhile universities are backpedaling to integrate these tools into their traditional practices. An organization led by UArizona built on open science and now leading the adoption of AI is CyVerse.org. CyVerse has spent the last fifteen years building cyberinfrastructure for the US National Science Foundation's Life Science community. CyVerse has enabled thousands of scientists to work with big data across the internet using combinations of publicly available research computing platforms and commercial clouds. During this seminar, Dr. Tyson Swetnam will explore open science public resources and describe how to implement open science techniques and standard operating procedures into individual research, wet labs, research groups, or educational programs. Dr. Swetnam will also talk about how to apply new AI frameworks into daily workload, research, and teaching. 

Tyson Swetnam is a Research Associate Professor of Geoinformatics at The University of Arizona (UArizona) and the Director of Open Science in the Institute for Computation and Data-enabled Insight. Dr. Swetnam earned graduate degrees from the UArizona’s College of Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Science (CALES) in Watershed Management (ecohydrology and disturbance ecology) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) prior to his faculty appointment. He holds joint appointments in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the BIO5 Institute. Dr. Swetnam’s research covers a broad range of science and cyberinfrastructure applications where he collaborates with a diverse group of data science-oriented projects in both Life and Earth Sciences. Dr. Swetnam is Co-principal investigator of CyVerse, the largest ever investment in cyberinfrastructure for the Life Sciences by The National Science Foundation; he also leads and co-leads multiple extramural research awards focused on data science, remote sensing of the environment, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Live broadcast available on Zoom

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Host: Amritha Wickramage, Ph.D