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

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

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

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

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 […]

CDE Webinar – Malcolm Kitchen: Opportunistic Data for Weather Forecasting

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

On Friday 8th April, we were pleased to welcome Malcolm Kitchen, a CDE Expert Network member, to present his webinar entitled ‘Opportunistic Data for Weather Forecasting’. This talk continued our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. The economic benefits of accurately targeting weather warnings is driving the development of higher resolution operational forecasting models. […]

IoT sensors helping to mitigate coastal flood hazards

Posted on by Jenny Brown

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 […]

CDE Webinar – Prof. Rob Allan: ACRE and International Global Weather Data Rescue

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

On Friday 18th March, we were pleased to welcome Professor Rob Allan from ACRE, to present his webinar entitled ‘CDE Webinar – Prof. Rob Allan: ACRE and International Global Weather Data Rescue’. This talk commenced our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. During the 1990s, Rob worked at the then CSIRO Division for Atmospheric Research in […]

Celebrating International Women’s Day

Posted on by Kirsten Dutton

We celebrate 2022 International Women’s Day in the Constructing a Digital Environment by sharing some inspirational stories from our expert network members. #IWD2022 Professor Jane K Hart is a Professor of Geography at @unisouthampton. She loves studying glaciers, undertaking fieldwork and being surrounded by nature. Every day is different in her role Marian Scott OBE, […]

CDE Webinar – Michael Hollaway, Tom August and Michael Tso

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

On Friday 25th February, we were pleased to welcome Michael Hollaway, Tom August and Michael Tso from UKCEH, to present their webinar entitled ‘DataLabs – Tales from the frontline of data science’. Their talk brought to a conclusion our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Mike is a Senior Data Scientist […]

CDE Webinar – Gwen Moncoiffe and Alexandra Kokkinaki 

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

On Friday 4th February, we were pleased to welcome Gwen Moncoiffe and Alexandra Kokkinaki from the NERC Environmental Data Service, to present their webinar entitled ‘Introduction to the NERC Vocab Server’. The talk continued our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Drs Gwen Moncoiffe and Alexandra Kokkinaki lead the NERC Vocabulary […]

Natural Language Processing – Vader sentiment analysis with NLTK

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) (https://www.nltk.org) provides an excellent starting point for natural language processing projects. In this blog we wanted to explore the creation and use of a custom docker image to allow one of the components of NLTK, that is the VADER sentiment analysis tool (https://www.nltk.org/_modules/nltk/sentiment/vader.html). A key advantage of VADER (Valence Aware […]

CDE Webinar – Ag Stephens

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

On Friday 14th January, we were pleased to welcome Ag Stephens, Head of Partnerships at CEDA, to present his webinar entitled ‘Overview of JASMIN’. The talk continued our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. As Head of Partnerships at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) (https://www.ceda.ac.uk), Ag has 20 years […]