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

Posted on February 3, 2023March 20, 2023 by Stephen Hallett

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

Posted on January 13, 2023March 20, 2023 by Stephen Hallett

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 […]

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

Posted on October 21, 2022March 20, 2023 by Stephen Hallett

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

Posted on October 11, 2022March 20, 2023 by Stephen Hallett

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; […]

#CDE22 – Reflections on the Conference

Posted on July 12, 2022July 3, 2023 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 […]

Building a Physical Data Cube

Posted on June 24, 2022July 3, 2023 by admin

Dr Tom August, UKCEH I built a physical ‘data cube’ as a way to communicate how this concept is used in biodiversity research. Data cubes are three-dimensional arrays of data, or put another way, a stack of spreadsheets, one on top of another. In the case of my research the three dimensions of the data […]

CDE Webinar – Michael Hollaway, Tom August and Michael Tso

Posted on February 25, 2022March 3, 2022 by Stephen Hallett

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 […]

Natural Language Processing – Vader sentiment analysis with NLTK

Posted on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 by Stephen Hallett

The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) (https://www.nltk.org) provides an excellent starting point for natural language processing projects. In this blog we wanted to explore the creation and use of a custom docker image to allow one of the components of NLTK, that is the VADER sentiment analysis tool (https://www.nltk.org/_modules/nltk/sentiment/vader.html). A key advantage of VADER (Valence Aware […]

Jetson Nano – Object Detection and Image Classification

Posted on December 23, 2021December 25, 2021 by Stephen Hallett

In our previous blog (https://digitalenvironment.org/the-nvidia-jetson-nano-first-look-and-setup) we explored setting up and running the amazing Jetson Nano Developer Kit from NVIDIA. This little unit is capable of about half a teraflop of floating point calculations using its Maxwell accelerated GPU processor – pretty impressive for a low cost unit. In this blog we were following the ‘Two […]

Networks of naturalists reveal gender variation

Posted on November 25, 2021November 25, 2021 by admin

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 […]