Matters pertaining to the activities of the project team and network of experts of the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme.
The 2021 Expert Network application process is now complete NERC is inviting applications for membership of the Expert Network within the Constructing a Digital Environment Programme. This is the second 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 […]
We had a fantastic finish to the first of our Webinar series ‘Data for Decision Making’ when Professor Karl Claxton presented his most informative talk on Lessons from applying decision science in the public health sector. This presentation followed the earlier webinars from Professor Sam L Savage (The Flaw of Averages and How to Cure […]
On Thursday 17th December, we were delighted to have Professor Norman Fenton, Queen Mary London University, present his webinar entitled, ‘Why Big Data and AI machine learning will never work for critical problems of risk assessment – causal reasoning and knowledge to the rescue’. Norman is a well-respected and widely published author with over 300 […]
We all need a little health check every now and again and our scientific equipment is no different. This year we are embarking on a new project CreamT (Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies) based on our fabulous WireWall wave overtopping measurement sensors. Under CreamT, WireWall will return near-real-time hazard data plus system health checks […]
On 3rd December, 2020, we had a most interesting webinar by Professor Sam L. Savage, entitled ‘The Flaw of Averages’, covering themes from his book of the same name. Further information and details of the wider webinar series is online at https://digitalenvironment.org/cde-webinar-series.
Well to answer that we are putting data archives and portals to the test with our #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery Trails. Why have we suddenly asked this question? Following the NERC COVID-19 hackathons it was realised a lot of data sources are used for environmental challenges, but not always data that are publicly available following UKRI-funded research. Given our […]
Have a look at our CDE funded projects page – see https://digitalenvironment.org/home/digital-environment-projects. The project investigators have been making some short video presentations to explain more about their respective research projects. These are a great way to quickly gain an understanding of the enormous span of research the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme is now supporting. […]
We are looking forward to the second Digital Environment open webinar on ‘The Flaw of Averages and How to Cure It‘ with Professor Sam Savage. Thursday 3rd December 15:00 GMT. Sign up at https://digitalenvironment.org/cde-webinar-series/ Our last webinar with Douglas Hubbard has now been made available to watch again
Digital Champions Professors Ron Corstanje and Steve Hallett provided a summary update of progress to date with their activities with relation to the NERC ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme. This was recorded and the video is presented below.
To improve the accessibility of data collected through NERC-funded research, or managed by NERC data centres, we are collecting feedback on the user experience (UX) to improve the navigation of our various web portals to assess these data. To gather feedback we are inviting you to take part in our Environmental Data Discovery Trails. We will […]