The EFI Asia chapter is gathering information from those interested in participating in, contributing to, or collaborating with the initiative. If that includes you, please fill out this brief survey to let us know of your interest.
Other ways to participate
EFI Membership
Members of the Asian EFI Chapter are also invited to become official members of the Ecological Forecasting Initiative. EFI membership is free, and by joining, members affirm their commitment to EFI’s Shared Values and Operating Principles and Procedures and their interest in building the community of practice around ecological forecasts. EFI members can also run for EFI Steering Committee elections and vote in those elections.
Individuals interested in EFI membership are asked to fill out this Form to provide their name, affiliation, photo, a short, 1 sentence synopsis of their research interests, and links to personal webpages or social media that individuals want to share on the EFI membership webpage. There are no formal requirements for membership, but we encourage members to be active participants in EFI chapters, working groups, or other EFI-supported activities.
EFI Newsletter and Slack Information
High-level announcements about activities across EFI and within the EFI chapters is shared every 4-6 weeks through EFI newsletters. Sign up to join the newsletter listserv on the right-hand side of the EFI homepage.
Day-to-day conversations and updates are shared through the EFI Slack Group. Email info@ecoforecast.org to be added to the Slack Group. We ask that everyone who joins the Slack Group to read and follow EFI’s Code of Conduct.
Here is some more information about the different channels in the EFI Slack Group:
The #general channel provides general information for the whole group.
The #jobs channel where job and internship opportunities are listed. Similarly, the #funding channel is where funding opportunities get posted by people in the EFI community.
Forecasting-related papers get posted in #papers. These papers are then tagged as an “EFI Slack Paper” in the EFI Bibliography Zotero Library. You can find more information about the Zotero library and the other categories of papers (e.g., papers on diversity, equity, and inclusion, translational science, visualization, etc) that are also included in the library on the EFI publications webpage.
There is a #random channel which is for water cooler conversations and which often gets things that are forecasting-related posted to it, but that do not quite fit in the other channels.
The #asian-chapter, #oceania-chapter, and #european-chapter are for announcements for the Asian, Oceania, and European EFI Chapters and for people interested in ecological forecasting in those regions. The African EFI Chapter is not on Slack, and the Canadian EFI Chapter has its own separate Slack group.
There are channels for each of our working groups: #theory, #cyberinfrastructure (which also includes the methods working group), #inclusion, #forecasting_standards, #education, #translation, #coastal-marine. You can find more details about the working groups HERE. Most of the working groups are focused on topics that are cross-cutting across all types of forecasts, and each working group is focused on different activities that include manuscript writing, hosting panel presentations, creating and compiling resources, etc.
The EFI Student & Early Career Association (#students_early-career) is a group led by students and postdocs and provides a platform for early career individuals to share resources, bolster the community, and foster collaboration within the diverse field of ecological forecasting.
Channels that are less used include those for Forecast Challenges (e.g., #forecast_challenges, #neon4cast-phenology, #neon4cast-aquatics, #neon4cast-help) to provide a place for people submitting forecasts or creating Forecasting Challenges to connect.
EFI uses a free version of Slack, so conversations older than three months are no longer viewable, so if there is something you want to refer back to, it is recommended to save it elsewhere.