Category: Activities

Matters pertaining to the activities of the project team and network of experts of the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme.

CDE Webinar – Dr Peter Battaglia, DeepMind. GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting

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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 […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Sari Giering NOC and Dr Robert Blackwell CEFAS Are plankton nets a thing of the past? How we can use AI for real-time high-resolution plankton monitoring?

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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, […]

CDE Webinar – Professor David Topping, University of Manchester. AI in Environmental Sciences from research developments to underlying infrastructure and policy implementation

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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: […]

CDE Webinar – Paul Brown and team. Sentinel Treescapes for Plant Biosecurity and Risk Management – Multiple Threats

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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 […]

CDE Webinar – Dr. Jagadeesh Yeluripati and team. The RETINA Project – Dynamic monitoring, reporting and verification for implementing negative emission strategies in managed ecosystems

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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 […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Michael Pocock and team. The DECIDE Project – Precision Citizen Science: Co-designing adaptive sampling to optimise biodiversity

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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 […]

CDE Webinar – Prof. Hayley Fowler and team. The PYRAMID Project – Modelling dynamic flood risk

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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 […]

Subscribe with our new YouTube Channel Handle!

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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 […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Matt Rigby and team. OpenGHG – A community platform for greenhouse gas data science

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On Friday 21st October, we were pleased to welcome Dr Matt Rigby and colleagues, to present their webinar entitled ‘OpenGHG – A community platform for greenhouse gas data science‘. This talk commenced our sixth ‘CDE Demonstrator Projects’ webinar series. Evaluating the emission trends of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and ozone-depleting substances (ODS) is critically important for […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Jenny Brown and team. The CreamT Project – Wave Overtopping Hazards

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On Friday 11th October, we were pleased to welcome Dr. Jenny Brown from the National Oceanography Centre and project lead; Dr. Christopher Stokes from the University of Plymouth; Dr Louise Darroch, from the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) in the National Oceanography Centre; Dr Timothy Poate a coastal research consultant from the University of Plymouth; […]