Expert Network member Sam Harrison describes some exciting recent developments for Fortran coders At the end of last year, a new Twitter channel @FortranTip was launched, with the goal of sharing bite-sized tips on Fortran coding best practices, similar to the @SciPyTip channel does for scientific Python tips. Example tweet from the FortranTip channel The […]
In our previous blog (https://digitalenvironment.org/the-nvidia-jetson-nano-first-look-and-setup) we explored setting up and running the amazing Jetson Nano Developer Kit from NVIDIA. This little unit is capable of about half a teraflop of floating point calculations using its Maxwell accelerated GPU processor – pretty impressive for a low cost unit. In this blog we were following the ‘Two […]
We’ve got our hands on one of NVIDIA’s amazing ‘Jetson Nano’ processors and developer kit. The Jetson Nano is described by NVIDIA as being used by professional developers to ‘create breakthrough AI products across all industries, and by students and enthusiasts for hands-on AI learning and making amazing projects’ (https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded-computing). This small unit packs a […]
On Friday 3rd December, we were pleased to welcome Helen Glaves, British Geological Survey, to present her webinar entitled ‘Open Science: what’s in it for me?‘. The talk continued our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Helen Glaves is a Senior Data Scientist at the British Geological Survey (BGS), with more […]
Tom August from UKCEH describes how he and his hackathon teammates used network analyses to unpick gender variation in natural history collectors Naturalists have been exploring and recording the natural world for hundreds of years. They often do this in groups. Understanding these networks of co-collecting was the focus of a hackathon project at BioHackathon Europe […]
On Friday 12th November, we were pleased to welcome Jaana Pinnick, NGDC Grants Manager at the National Geoscience Data Centre / NERC EDS, to present her webinar entitled ‘Research data management services provided by NERC EDS’. The talk commenced our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Jaana Pinnick leads the NGDC […]
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 […]
On Friday 1st October, we were pleased to welcome Dr Scott Ensign and Shannon Hicks of The Stroud Water Research Center. to present their webinar entitled ‘The Three Ingredients for Scaling-Up Water Sensor Networks: People, Platform, and Protocols’. The talk continued our ‘Sensing the Environment’ webinar series. Scott Ensign is Vice President and Research Scientist at […]
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 […]