We’ve just completed our 4th round of #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery trails. One interesting observation from running these online events is that the same people rarely participate more than once. We’re not sure if that’s in response to the different data centre communication channels being used or peoples’ changing interest in the environmental themes. In total there’s been […]
Blog credit: Louise Darroch The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. Thanks to a handy cellular modem, an evolving data broker system and the cloud, our Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies (CreamT) project […]
We’ve just completed our 3rd round of #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery trails. This trail focused on borehole information and ran 25th – 28th August & 5th – 8th September 2021. It comprised 5 questions to explore the British Geological Survey’s (BGS) online Onshore GeoIndex. Participants started exploring the map view data before looking into the borehole records in […]
We’ve just competed our 2nd round of #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery trails. This trail focused on meteorology and ran 11th – 14th & 21st – 24th April 2021. It comprised 5 questions to explore the Met Office’s Weather Observations Website (WOW), and 4 questions to explore the Meteorological Observations taken from Ben Nevis and Fort William available through NERC’s repository for […]
The Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies (CreamT) project is now is full swing monitoring wave overtopping and beach levels change at Dawlish. While the lockdowns have been challenging with workshops access restricted and material supply chains impacted from the outset of the project, we still made it to the beach to collect out first […]
We all need a little health check every now and again and our scientific equipment is no different. This year we are embarking on a new project CreamT (Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies) based on our fabulous WireWall wave overtopping measurement sensors. Under CreamT, WireWall will return near-real-time hazard data plus system health checks […]
Well to answer that we are putting data archives and portals to the test with our #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery Trails. Why have we suddenly asked this question? Following the NERC COVID-19 hackathons it was realised a lot of data sources are used for environmental challenges, but not always data that are publicly available following UKRI-funded research. Given our […]
To improve the accessibility of data collected through NERC-funded research, or managed by NERC data centres, we are collecting feedback on the user experience (UX) to improve the navigation of our various web portals to assess these data. To gather feedback we are inviting you to take part in our Environmental Data Discovery Trails. We will […]