Matters pertaining to the activities of the project team and network of experts of the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme.
We celebrate 2022 International Women’s Day in the Constructing a Digital Environment by sharing some inspirational stories from our expert network members. #IWD2022 Professor Jane K Hart is a Professor of Geography at @unisouthampton. She loves studying glaciers, undertaking fieldwork and being surrounded by nature. Every day is different in her role Marian Scott OBE, […]
On Friday 25th February, we were pleased to welcome Michael Hollaway, Tom August and Michael Tso from UKCEH, to present their webinar entitled ‘DataLabs – Tales from the frontline of data science’. Their talk brought to a conclusion our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Mike is a Senior Data Scientist […]
On Friday 4th February, we were pleased to welcome Gwen Moncoiffe and Alexandra Kokkinaki from the NERC Environmental Data Service, to present their webinar entitled ‘Introduction to the NERC Vocab Server’. The talk continued our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Drs Gwen Moncoiffe and Alexandra Kokkinaki lead the NERC Vocabulary […]
On Friday 14th January, we were pleased to welcome Ag Stephens, Head of Partnerships at CEDA, to present his webinar entitled ‘Overview of JASMIN’. The talk continued our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. As Head of Partnerships at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) (https://www.ceda.ac.uk), Ag has 20 years […]
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 […]
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 […]