WHOI Data Science Slack and monthly office hour
Got questions about data or coding? Want to discuss a topic related to data science? The whoi-datascience Slack is always open to WHOI staff and students; login to WHOI's Enterprise Slack and join the whoi-datascience Workspace.
In 2026, we will host a monthly office hour on Zoom on the 3rd Wednesday at 10am. Find the Zoom link on this IS webpage (internal/VPN).
Sponsored by WHOI's Ocean Informatics Working Group, IS, and Data Library & Archives. Please contact sbeaulieu@whoi.edu or blongworth@whoi.edu for more information.
Solicitations and Dear Colleague Letters:
NSF Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets)
[Link] Deadline November 4, 2026: "The program seeks to 1) apply AI-based capabilities to feature extraction and metadata generation, and the integration of multiple datasets. 2) Develop robust data pipelines necessary for automated analysis of existing datasets and similar use-cases by AI tools and systems. 3) Augment and/or harmonize existing datasets to better enable use by AI data pipelines and automated analysis."NSF 25-533: Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS)
[Link] Deadline April 14, 2027: "The FAIROS Program seeks to support a broad range of transformative open science activities including but not limited to i.) Research, education, and socio-technical cyberinfrastructure development capacities that advance sustainable multi-disciplinary findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable (FAIR) research data management (RDM) and open science capabilities, ii.) Piloting new models of scientific communication and publication that improve efficiency and accessibility, iii.) Developing FAIROS data portals, research data commons, RDM as a national service, and iv.) Lowering barriers to accessing, curating, integrating, linking, managing, sharing, and storing data across many disciplinary domains, irrespective of data size."NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Availability of Earth Observation Data for NSF-Funded Researchers
[Link to DCL] April 26, 2023: "Recent developments in satellite and sensor technology have led to unprecedented advances in the resolution, extent, and frequency of Earth observations... Yet, many of these datasets have previously been unavailable for research purposes because they are generated by commercial providers. This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) announces the availability of high-quality commercial Earth observation data to NSF-funded researchers at no additional cost through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program..."
