{"id":833,"date":"2013-12-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/msr_er\/2013\/12\/13\/cloud-computing-for-environmental-science-webinar-airs-december-17\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T07:30:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:30:47","slug":"cloud-computing-for-environmental-science-webinar-airs-december-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/cloud-computing-for-environmental-science-webinar-airs-december-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud computing for environmental science webinar airs December 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preserving biodiversity, understanding animals’ social interactions, and predicting droughts: these are all key research areas for ecologists and environmental scientists. And like so many areas of research these days, they are all data intensive and thus potential beneficiaries of cloud computing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With that in mind, we are delighted to be hosting a webinar (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> on Tuesday, December 17, 2013, at 16:00 GMT, in which Tanya Berger-Wolf of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Cristian Bonacic and Hugo Neyem of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile will discuss how to use Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform, to expand and accelerate environmental research.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tanya will describe her upcoming research (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> in Kenya, where she will study the social interactions of zebras. She’ll be gathering data from multiple sources, everything from drones and GPS trackers to camera traps and traditional sightings. The task of bringing all this field data together is a perfect fit for the cloud. So Tanya is developing an end-to-end system that goes from collecting data in Africa, feeding it into models, and sharing the results—all via Windows Azure.<\/span><\/p>\n