The WDS co-convened Third International Polar Data Forum will be held on 18 – 22 November 2019, hosted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute at their Dynamicum campus in Helsinki, Finland. The Forum will be a two-day conference style meeting in support of information exchange, with the remainder of the week using a 'hackathon' approach that will build on the development work from other ...
With thanks to the generous sponsorship of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), t he World Data System of the International Science Council (WDS) will hold a Research Data Management (RDM) Training Workshop aimed at early career researchers and scientists (ECRs) on 6–8 November 2019 in Paris, France. The purpose of the Workshop is to gain practical skills in data curation and ...
Co-located with the EGU–WDS Early Career Researcher Training Workshop 2019, the WDS Scientific Committee will convene in Paris for the second of its biannual meetings of 2019.
The Research Data Alliance 's (RDA; WDS Associate Member) 14th Plenary Meeting will be held from 23 October to 25 October 2019 in Helsinki, Finland. The Plenary will bring together data experts in research, industry, and policy-making worldwide and from all disciplines under the theme Data Makes the Difference and will address the extensive potential of research data in Improving decision ...
The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG; WDS Partner Member) was established on 28 July 1919 in Brussels, Belgium at the Inaugural General Assembly of the International Research Council (now the International Science Council) to promote activities of already-existing international scientific societies dealing with geodesy, terrestrial magnetism and electricity, meteorology, ...
For 20 years, meetings of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP; WDS Partner Member) have brought together the most innovative thinkers and leaders around Earth observation data, thus forming a community dedicated to making Earth observations more discoverable, accessible and useful to researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and the public. This year's ESIP Summer Meeting will ...
The 2019 Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU) will be held on 9–13 December 2019 in San Francisco, California. Join the largest international Earth and Space Science meeting in the world as AGU marks its Centennial in 2019 by returning to San Francisco, the home of Fall Meeting for more than 40 years. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in Centennial ...
Alex de Sherbinin (Vice-chair of the WDS Scientific Committee) is representing the World Data System at this conference and is a member of its Scientific Organizing Committee. The conference is being jointly organized by Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD) and Cheikh Anta Diop University ...
The VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Ingeniería Biomédica (CLAIB) and the XLII Congreso Nacional de Ingeniería Biomédica (CNIB) will be held on 2–5 October in Cancún, Mexico, hosted by the Sociedad Mexicana de Ingeniería Biomédica and the Consejo Regional de Ingeniería Biomédica para América Latina. CLAIB–CNIB19 will promote the interaction and exchange of ideas, knowledge, experiences, and ...
Vacancy (Re-advertisement) Executive Director of the ICSU World Data System (WDS) The position of Executive Director of the WDS International Programme Office is open for applications until 29 July 2018. The Executive Director will lead the WDS-IPO hosted by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Tokyo, Japan with core funding provided by NICT. The ...
The position of Associate Director of the WDS International Technology Office (WDS-ITO) is open for applications until 13 May 2018. The position is for a 3-year term and based at Ocean Network's Canada (WDS Regular Member) hosted at the University of Victoria, Canada. Applications should be made on the HR Portal of the University of Victoria More information on the WDS-IPO can be ...
The deadline for session proposal for SciDataCon 2018 is midnight UTC on Friday, 2 February 2018. Please see this news item on the WDS website for more details or visit the SciDataCon 2018 website .
