Tom August is a computational ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. His research focuses on the use of technology to better our understanding of biodiversity, both through innovative data collection methods and engaging communications. Tom comes from a background in field and applied ecology, now focussing on applying AI methods to improve […]
Dr Peter Battaglia, Google DeepMind provided a presentation on the use of AI in medium range global weather forecasting. Peter Battaglia is a Research Scientist/Director at DeepMind. His work focuses on approaches for modelling and reasoning about complex systems, by combining richly structured knowledge with flexible learning algorithms. In this webinar, Peter presented his recent […]
Dr Sari Giering, NOC and Dr Robert Blackwell, CEFAS provided a joint overview of the role and opportunity of AI in oceanic plankton monitoring. Sari is a researcher at the National Oceanography Centre. Her research interests focus on how marine organisms influence the capacity of the ocean to store carbon. Her research combines shipboard measurements, […]
Professor David Topping, University of Manchester provides an overview of the role and opportunity of AI in environmental science. David’s research interests focus on building computational models of atmospheric aerosol particles for use in interpretation of measured properties and as sub models for incorporation into climate change models. The research area is highly multi-disciplinary, covering: […]
Paul Brown, Remote Sensing Scientist, Fera Science Ltd, and principal investigator of this project describe the Sentinel project and its outcomes to date, and learnings. Trees, in spite of their extremely important role in sustaining life and tackling climate change, are at risk across the UK due to a range of pests and diseases. This […]
Soil carbon sequestration is one of the most natural ways to implement negative carbon emission. Successful implementation of land based negative emission technologies requires continuous monitoring. This can be achieved by field based sensors, remote sensing, and/or smartphone apps and integration of models on cloud platforms to confirm management practice effectiveness. In this project, a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]