Digital – the key to unlocking Environmental Challenges’ event – a great success

What a great day at the Royal Society in London for the ‘Digital – the key to unlocking Environmental Challenges’ event. All the planning for this key stakeholder event came good and we had a fantastic day of presentations, panels sessions and exhibits from all the supported research teams. A collective audience of some 110 […]

Towards high resolution FAIR data in the Western Channel Observatory; Demonstrator interface now live!

The Western Channel Observatory (WCO) is an oceanographic time-series and marine biodiversity reference site that provides a valuable source of data to a wide range of UK research, policymaker, public and businesses communities. Recently emerging sensor and platform technologies have proven their abilities to increase both the spatial and time resolution of these data. While this additional […]

NERC ‘Digital, Unlocking Environmental Challenges’ event at the Royal Society, London on Sept 5th.

Just a fortnight to go until the NERC ‘Digital, Unlocking Environmental Challenges’ event at the Royal Society, London on Sept 5th. Free registration and details at https://digitalenvironment.org/digital-the-key-to-unlocking-environmental-challenges/ – the event is all about how digital tools support sound environmental decision making. @SPFDigiEnv @NERCscience #DUEC

CDE Webinar – Tom Andersson, Tackling diverse environmental prediction tasks with neural processes

Tom is an ML Research Scientist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) AI Lab, where he researches and develops ML systems for monitoring and adapting to climate change. His work currently focusses on the application and implementation of neural processes in environmental sciences. Tom has used uncertainty quantification, interpretability, and active learning methods to build […]

CDE Webinar – Prof Iain Styles, AI for biological imaging and sensing

Iain Styles is Professor of Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast. He was previously at the University of Birmingham, where he was the Founding Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI, Turing University Lead, and PI and Director of the EPSRC-funded Baskerville Tier 2 High Performance Computing Facility. His principle research interest […]

The NERC #DG23 ‘Digital Gathering 23’ Hackathon event finishes

The NERC Digital Gathering #DG23 Hackathon event, held following the conference has now finished. We adopted a ‘collaborative’ approach to this year’s hackathon, with two groups of experienced instructors helping to facilitate the delegates to use the software tools and computational environments on offer to further their research. Expert Network member Prof. Richard Reeve and […]

The NERC #DG23 ‘Digital Gathering’ Hackathon now underway

Following the successful #DG23 Digital Gathering conference, comes the the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ Digital Gathering 23 Hackathon, where the first day has now completed (https://lnkd.in/ewmVU7FW). Held at Churchill College, Cambridge, the hackathon is led by Digital Environment Expert Network member Prof Richard Reeve, Professor of Population and Ecosystem Health and team from the University of Glasgow, […]

The NERC #DG23 ‘Digital Gathering 23’ now drawn to a successful conclusion

The NERC ‘Digital Gathering 23’ has now drawn to a successful conclusion, organised through the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme. Held at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge on 10-11th July, the #DG23 International conference hosted a series of excellent oral presentation, spotlight talks, posters and masterclass workshops focussing on four of the core themes of […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Rossella Arcucci, Data Learning: Integrating Data Assimilation and Machine Learning for reliable AI models

Dr Rossella Arcucciis a Lecturer in Data Science and Machine Learning at Imperial College London (ICL). She is an elected member of the World Meteorological Organization and the elected speaker of the AI Network of Excellence at ICL where she represents more than 270 academics working on AI. She has been with the Data Science […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Tom August, AI for on the ground biodiversity monitoring

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 […]