On Friday 22nd October, we were pleased to welcome Dr Shridhar Jawak of SIOS. to present his webinar entitled ‘Remote sensing systems for polar applications’. The talk concluded our ‘Sensing the Environment’ webinar series. Dr. Jawak is a Remote Sensing Officer (Sr. Adviser) at the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS), Longyearbyen, Norway. SIOS […]
Previous blogs on this site have highlighted the strengths and advantages of Docker. Docker is a great utility tool that allows ‘containerisation’ of a very wide range of applications, where the containers are used to build images that can be shared, running applications in a way that seals them off from the rest of your computer. This […]
Docker, https://docs.docker.com/get-started/overview, is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Docker enables separation of ‘containerised’ applications from local computing infrastructure. It’s a popular way of preparing programmes to share with others (https://hub.docker.com) and to run on remote computers also. Using docker means not having to have complex software server applications installed locally. Instead […]
Monday 20th September 2021, 4-5.30pm Members of the Digital Environment Expert Network participated in a chat show style event on Digital Environments: Disentangling Nature Through Technology. This event was hosted by Prof. Steve Hallett, joined by Prof. Jane Hart, Dr Jenny Brown, Dr John Siddorn and Dr Matt Fry. They wrestled with questions such as: Can […]
On Friday 10th July we were pleased to welcome Professor Matt Mowlem of ClearWater Sensors Ltd. to present his webinar entitled ‘In-situ water chemistry monitoring: the next generation of water quality data and what to do with it’. The talk continued our ‘Sensing the Environment’ webinar series. Matt is the founder of the National Oceanography […]
On Friday 2nd July we were pleased to welcome Professor Jane K. Hart of the University of Southampton to present her webinar entitled ‘Environmental Sensor Networks: when will the revolution happen?’. The talk continued our ‘Sensing the Environment’ webinar series. Jane is a Professor of Physical Geography in the School of Geography and Environmental Science, University […]
On Friday 11th May (our new time) we were pleased to welcome Dr Lia Chatzidiakou of the University of Cambridge to present her webinar entitled ‘Sensor networks and smart analysis: Quantifying air quality and health impacts’. The talk commenced our ‘Sensing the Environment’ webinar series. Dr Lia Chatzidiakou is a research associate at the Department […]
UNEP’s World Environment Day, or ‘WED’, is held on June 5th each year. WED gives us the opportunity to consider the many global and local environmental challenges we face, and provides the impetus for a call to action around the world. The need for large scale ecosystem regeneration and the response to the changing climate, […]
On Thursday 20th May we were pleased to welcome Professor Gordon Blair of Lancaster University and Dr Michael Hollaway of UKCEH to present their joint webinar entitled ‘Virtual labs and digital environments: can virtual lab technology support a paradigm shift towards a more open, collaborative and integrative environmental science?’, together with a live demonstration of […]
We are delighted to welcome a newly expanded group of colleagues to our ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ Expert Network. Together with the experts who continue their work with the programme from last year, the 49 members of the network draw together world leading expertise and a deep wealth of experience in digital environmental science. Listed […]