Fascinating …
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/ebird-gets-a-supercomputing-kick-from-teragrid
“eBird gets a supercomputing kick from TeraGrid
August 16, 2010
Thanks to your continued participation the data analysis potential of eBird is growing rapidly. Through collaboration with partners in the DataONE network at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, eBird was recently awarded 100,000 hours of supercomputing time on the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid system. This powerful computer system will help Lab scientists and colleagues model bird migration phenology at the population level based on eBird data. The process will involve combining bird observations with remotely sensed variables such as landcover and greening index to predict bird movements and to explore how migration timing might change under different climate scenarios. This exciting story was recently profiled in Nature. The Nature article includes some preliminary visualizations created from eBird data focused on Indigo Bunting migration. Take a minute to read this exciting piece, and don’t miss the animated migration map!”============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au
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