From KAREN wiki

Contents 1 Contacts 1.1 KAREN champion 1.2 Additional contacts 1.3 Number of projects using KAREN 1.3.1 Institutional Capability Build

Contacts

KAREN champion

Dr. Michael Uddstrom

• Principal Scientist, Meteorology and Remote Sensing;
• Science Leader: Environmental Forecasting;
• Manager, High Performance Computing Facility
• Email: m.uddstrom@niwa.co.nz

NIWA Project Plan

Additional contacts

Arian de Wit

• General Manager, Information Systems
• Email: a.dewit@niwa.co.nz

Number of projects using KAREN

• 1

Institutional Capability Build

updated 5 June 2008

NIWA eResearch Upskilling, Trial, and Promotion

KAREN Champion: Dr. Michael Uddstrom

Relevant Staff:

• Rob Murdoch, Director – Research
• Arian de Wit, GM - Information Systems

Project On Track: Yes

Achievement to date

NIWA is beginning a trial of Evo and other KAREN-enabled eResearch tools. Its “champion group” plans to visit a number of other KAREN users over the next two months to learn from their experience with a view to fast-tracking NIWA’s adoption of eResearch tools in all appropriate projects.

We have aligned a broader Collaboration Platform initiative with this project and required that interoperability with Evo and relevant open standards be considered within that broader initiative to ensure ease of collaboration with others should we choose to use a collaboration client other than Evo long-term.

The champion group has not yet convened to plan their visits to other KAREN users.

What’s Coming Up

The champion group will convene (likely by videoconference) in the next few weeks (dependent on their availability) and plan their visits to selected other KAREN users. After the visits, they will select the tools to be trialled within this project, install them at NIWA (or access them via KAREN), and become familiar with them in collaboration with a larger test group.