Category: Marine

Matters pertaining to the sea, the oceans and related water bodies and the ecosystems therein.

Towards high resolution FAIR data in the Western Channel Observatory; Demonstrator interface now live!

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The Western Channel Observatory (WCO) is an oceanographic time-series and marine biodiversity reference site that provides a valuable source of data to a wide range of UK research, policymaker, public and businesses communities. Recently emerging sensor and platform technologies have proven their abilities to increase both the spatial and time resolution of these data. While this additional […]

CDE Webinar – Tom Andersson, Tackling diverse environmental prediction tasks with neural processes

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Tom is an ML Research Scientist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) AI Lab, where he researches and develops ML systems for monitoring and adapting to climate change. His work currently focusses on the application and implementation of neural processes in environmental sciences. Tom has used uncertainty quantification, interpretability, and active learning methods to build […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Tom August, AI for on the ground biodiversity monitoring

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Tom August is a computational ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. His research focuses on the use of technology to better our understanding of biodiversity, both through innovative data collection methods and engaging communications. Tom comes from a background in field and applied ecology, now focussing on applying AI methods to improve […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Peter Battaglia, DeepMind. GraphCast: Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting

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Dr Peter Battaglia, Google DeepMind provided a presentation on the use of AI in medium range global weather forecasting. Peter Battaglia is a Research Scientist/Director at DeepMind. His work focuses on approaches for modelling and reasoning about complex systems, by combining richly structured knowledge with flexible learning algorithms. In this webinar, Peter presented his recent […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Sari Giering NOC and Dr Robert Blackwell CEFAS Are plankton nets a thing of the past? How we can use AI for real-time high-resolution plankton monitoring?

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Dr Sari Giering, NOC and Dr Robert Blackwell, CEFAS provided a joint overview of the role and opportunity of AI in oceanic plankton monitoring. Sari is a researcher at the National Oceanography Centre. Her research interests focus on how marine organisms influence the capacity of the ocean to store carbon. Her research combines shipboard measurements, […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Jenny Brown and team. The CreamT Project – Wave Overtopping Hazards

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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; […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Elizabeth Kent, NOC. Making old data more useful

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On Friday 10th June, we were pleased to welcome Dr Liz Kent Unwin of the National Oceanographic Centre (NOC), to present her webinar entitled ‘Making old data more useful’. This talk continued our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. Historical data archives are being expanded with newly- collected and newly-digitised surface marine observations. This […]

CDE Webinar – Professor Matt Mowlem

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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 […]

Essential travel was granted for our first CreamT delivery!

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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 […]

A CreamT that delivers health-checked hazard warnings!

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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 […]