Matters pertaining to emergent societal-environmental issues
There’s been a lot in the press and media in recent weeks about ‘Generative AI’ and the increasingly well-known Open-AI chat bot agent ‘Chat GPT’ and its like. There are now a number of these agents out there to try, a recent addition to the pack is Google’s ‘Bard’ large language model chatbot. Educational establishments […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Authors: Emma Bee (British Geological Survey), Mirianna Budimir (Practical Action UK) and Jonathan Paul (Royal Holloway University). Approximately 93% of the global population has access to a mobile broadband network 1. Mobile phone ownership has also increased rapidly, with global smartphone connections doubling in just five years and rising sixfold in South Asia 2. Whilst […]
UNEP’s World Environment Day, or ‘WED’, is held on June 5th each year. WED gives us the opportunity to consider the many global and local environmental challenges we face, and provides the impetus for a call to action around the world. The need for large scale ecosystem regeneration and the response to the changing climate, […]
The Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies (CreamT) project is now is full swing monitoring wave overtopping and beach levels change at Dawlish. While the lockdowns have been challenging with workshops access restricted and material supply chains impacted from the outset of the project, we still made it to the beach to collect out first […]