Author: Stephen Hallett

CDE Webinar – Dr Michael Pocock and team. The DECIDE Project – Precision Citizen Science: Co-designing adaptive sampling to optimise biodiversity

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Decide stands for ‘Delivering Enhanced Biodiversity Information with Adaptive Citizen Science and Intelligent Digital Engagements’. The project concerns Precision Citizen Science: Co-designing adaptive sampling to optimise biodiversity On Friday 3rd February 2023, we were pleased to welcome Dr Michael Pocock, UKCEH (PI); Dr Tom August, Computational Ecologist, UKCEH; Dr Susan Jarvis, Quantitative Ecologist, UKCEH; Dr […]

ChatGPT

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We have been trying out the rather amazing OpenAI tool ‘ChatGPT‘. This extraordinary online tool (https://chat.openai.com) provides the latest in AI. We asked it what it was and it answered ‘ChatGPT is a large language model that uses deep learning to generate human-like text. It is trained on a diverse set of internet text to […]

CDE Webinar – Prof. Hayley Fowler and team. The PYRAMID Project – Modelling dynamic flood risk

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Pyramid stands for the ‘Platform for dYnamic, hyper-resolution, near-real time flood Risk AssessMent Integrating repurposed and novel Data source. On Friday 13th January 2023, we were pleased to welcome Prof. Hayley Fowler from Newcastle University and project PI; Dr. Liz Lewis, Lecturer in Computational Hydrology, Deputy Director of Research & Innovation at Newcastle University and […]

Subscribe with our new YouTube Channel Handle!

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It’s now become even easier to find our YouTube channel – packed with all the excellent webinars we have run and much more. You can now subscribe at: https://www.youtube.com/@NERCDigitalEnvironment On the channel we have content from each of the six webinar series we have run over the past years with fascinating talks from eminent speakers […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Matt Rigby and team. OpenGHG – A community platform for greenhouse gas data science

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On Friday 21st October, we were pleased to welcome Dr Matt Rigby and colleagues, to present their webinar entitled ‘OpenGHG – A community platform for greenhouse gas data science‘. This talk commenced our sixth ‘CDE Demonstrator Projects’ webinar series. Evaluating the emission trends of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and ozone-depleting substances (ODS) is critically important for […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Jenny Brown and team. The CreamT Project – Wave Overtopping Hazards

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On Friday 11th October, we were pleased to welcome Dr. Jenny Brown from the National Oceanography Centre and project lead; Dr. Christopher Stokes from the University of Plymouth; Dr Louise Darroch, from the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) in the National Oceanography Centre; Dr Timothy Poate a coastal research consultant from the University of Plymouth; […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Kirsty Pringle, Using citizen science to measure environmental pollution – learnings from two very different studies.

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On Friday 30th September, we were pleased to welcome Dr Kirsty Pringle of the SSI, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, to present her webinar entitled ‘Using citizen science to measure environmental pollution – learnings from two very different studies‘. This talk was an additional event in our ‘Sensing the Environment’ webinar series, led […]

#CDE22 – Reflections on the Conference

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The first NERC ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ (CDE) conference and hackathon ‘#CDE22’ has just finished, running over the past few days at the University of Birmingham. The Hackathon commenced on 10th July, then the conference itself ran on from Monday 11 to Tuesday 12 July. The event has been the culmination of the work underway […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Vince Smith, Natural History Museum and Dr Mike Howe, BGS. Digitising the world’s collections to address global challenges

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On Friday 29th April, we were pleased to welcome both Dr Vince Smith of the Natural History Museum, and Dr Mike Howe of BGS, to jointly present their webinar entitled ‘Digitising the world’s collections to address global challenges’. This talk continued our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. Natural science collections can tell us […]

NERC Embedded Digital Researcher: Highlighting the Potential of Coincident Satellite Data

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Embedded NERC Digital Researcher Dr Martin Wearing shares his thoughts on the research he is conducting. In November 2021, I started a six-month placement at the satellite data company EarthWave, as part of NERC’s Embedded Digital Researcher programme. The aims of the placement are to build a digital infrastructure for viewing and accessing coincident satellite data, and to measure […]