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 Kirsty Pringle, Using citizen science to measure environmental pollution – learnings from two very different studies.

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

On Friday 30th September, we were pleased to welcome Dr Kirsty Pringle of the SSI, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, to present her webinar entitled ‘Using citizen science to measure environmental pollution – learnings from two very different studies‘. This talk was an additional event in our ‘Sensing the Environment’ webinar series, led […]

CDE Expert Network – Announcement of Opportunity

Posted on by John Beale

NERC is inviting applications for membership of the Expert Network within the Constructing a Digital Environment Programme. This is the third year of intake for these positions and, along with current members of this network, new members will help support the Digital Environment programme activities, working closely with the existing Digital Environment Champions and other […]

#CDE22 – Hackathon Triumph for Biodiversity Sculpture

Posted on by John Beale

We are delighted to report that Dr Tom August has been declared winner of the #CDE22 Hackathon following a unanimous judges’ decision and is awarded the top prize of £3,000. His artwork, An Incomplete Picture explores the biodiversity crisis in the UK based on the data in NERC’s EIDC, highlighting the limitations of that data […]

#CDE22 – Reflections on the Conference

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

The first NERC ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ (CDE) conference and hackathon ‘#CDE22’ has just finished, running over the past few days at the University of Birmingham. The Hackathon commenced on 10th July, then the conference itself ran on from Monday 11 to Tuesday 12 July. The event has been the culmination of the work underway […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Elizabeth Kent, NOC. Making old data more useful

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On Friday 10th June, we were pleased to welcome Dr Liz Kent Unwin of the National Oceanographic Centre (NOC), to present her webinar entitled ‘Making old data more useful’. This talk continued our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. Historical data archives are being expanded with newly- collected and newly-digitised surface marine observations. This […]

BAS data processing with Snap!

Posted on by Jenny Brown

We’ve just completed our 4th round of #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery trails. One interesting observation from running these online events is that the same people rarely participate more than once. We’re not sure if that’s in response to the different data centre communication channels being used or peoples’ changing interest in the environmental themes. In total there’s been […]

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 […]

CDE Webinar – Malcolm Kitchen: Opportunistic Data for Weather Forecasting

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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. […]

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

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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 […]