Matters pertaining to natural ecosystems and ecological communities
Paul Brown, Remote Sensing Scientist, Fera Science Ltd, and principal investigator of this project describe the Sentinel project and its outcomes to date, and learnings. Trees, in spite of their extremely important role in sustaining life and tackling climate change, are at risk across the UK due to a range of pests and diseases. This […]
Soil carbon sequestration is one of the most natural ways to implement negative carbon emission. Successful implementation of land based negative emission technologies requires continuous monitoring. This can be achieved by field based sensors, remote sensing, and/or smartphone apps and integration of models on cloud platforms to confirm management practice effectiveness. In this project, a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Professor Marion Scott, one of the CDE Expert Network members, and her research team have just produced an excellent animated ‘story map’ of their research project. This is a tale of how when the world turns upside down; engineers find a way to ‘get the job done’! The project involves plannig to develop and deploy […]
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 […]