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 […]
We’ve just completed our 3rd round of #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery trails. This trail focused on borehole information and ran 25th – 28th August & 5th – 8th September 2021. It comprised 5 questions to explore the British Geological Survey’s (BGS) online Onshore GeoIndex. Participants started exploring the map view data before looking into the borehole records in […]
Authors: Emma Bee (British Geological Survey), Mirianna Budimir (Practical Action UK) and Jonathan Paul (Royal Holloway University). Approximately 93% of the global population has access to a mobile broadband network 1. Mobile phone ownership has also increased rapidly, with global smartphone connections doubling in just five years and rising sixfold in South Asia 2. Whilst […]
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 […]
We’ve just competed our 2nd round of #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery trails. This trail focused on meteorology and ran 11th – 14th & 21st – 24th April 2021. It comprised 5 questions to explore the Met Office’s Weather Observations Website (WOW), and 4 questions to explore the Meteorological Observations taken from Ben Nevis and Fort William available through NERC’s repository for […]