MAY 3, 2018 — Hsiu-Mei Chou of Taiwan’s National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) and Tso-Chung Sung of Taiwan’s National Museum of Marine Science & Technology in Taiwan (NMMST) invited Aimee Stewart and CJ Grady from Kansas University’s Biodiversity Institute to give a lecture and tutorial on Lifemapper.
The Lifemapper project documents the diversity of life on planet Earth. It integrates online collections of biogeographic and phylo-geographic wild species data to create distribution maps and, more notably, to predict where an individual species could exist based on where they are documented to live <http://lifemapper.org/>.
Lifemapper was the first application to run on NMMST’s new SAGE2 mobile wall, built for them by NCHC. The following day, Stewart and Grady went to NCHC and used their SAGE2 wall for a Lifemapper lecture and tutorial.
The Lifemapper project, along with NCHC and the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are all involved in the CENTRA organization (Collaborations to Enable Transnational Cyberinfrastructure Applications), an international partnership and evolving framework for collaborations amongst research centers, institutes and laboratories across the world <http://www.globalcentra.org>.
