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eResearch Australasia 2011: eXtreme eResearch. Join us 6-10 November in Melbourne at the Sebel & Citigate Albert Park for eResearch Australasia 2011: eXtreme eResearch. The conference will provide you with plenty of opportunities to engage, connect, and share your ideas and examples about new information centric research capabilities: how information and communications technologies help researchers to collect, manage, share, process, analyse, store, find, and re-use information. Start the week Sunday evening at the welcome reception. On Monday morning the conference begins, with three days of featured speakers, presentations, birds-of-a-feather sessions, point/counterpoint debates, and posters. The week finishes with workshops on Thursday.

NZ eResearch Symposium 2011 - The NZ eResearch Symposium 2011 will be held at The University of Otago, Dunedin on Thursday 30 June - Friday 1 July 2011. Please mark these dates in your calendar and start making arrangements. Our NZ eResearch Symposium is a broad forum for NZ's research sector and nascent eResearch community. This is an opportunity to meet leaders of eResearch initiatives within NZ and internationally, and to hear about emerging practice, and to share experiences. Further details including a call for contributors will be available shortly. If you would like more information on any aspect of this conference, please go to the conference website

Framework for eResearch Adoption - what have we learned, what do we do next? An event is to be held via the KAREN Video Conferencing Service on 3:30 - 4:30pm, Tuesday 3 May 2011. For more information on the event and how to participate see: http://www.eresearch.org.nz/fera

New Zealand’s National eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) - The New Zealand government recently announced plans to invest $27.4 million over the next four years in the National (New Zealand) eScience Infrastructure, or NeSI for short. Six partner research organisations are co-investing more than $21 million over the same period. This coordinated investment includes both high performance computers and the development and operation of ‘eScience services’, which will help New Zealand’s research community leverage the infrastructure effectively. The computational platforms and support personnel will be distributed around New Zealand, at four institutions: the Universities of Auckland, Canterbury, and Crown research institutes NIWA and AgResearch. The University of Otago and Landcare Research are also joining in the co-investment, partnering with AgResearch and the University of Auckland respectively. Access to NeSI computing platforms and services will be prioritised to areas supporting the research priorities and Government’s Economic Growth Agenda. These range from agriculture to health, materials, biological industries, energy, environment, climate and hazards mitigation research. Click here to visit the NeSI Website