Matters pertaining to the natural and built environment
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
On Friday 30th September, we were pleased to welcome Dr Kirsty Pringle of the SSI, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, to present her webinar entitled ‘Using citizen science to measure environmental pollution – learnings from two very different studies‘. This talk was an additional event in our ‘Sensing the Environment’ webinar series, led […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
We’ve just completed our 4th round of #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery trails. One interesting observation from running these online events is that the same people rarely participate more than once. We’re not sure if that’s in response to the different data centre communication channels being used or peoples’ changing interest in the environmental themes. In total there’s been […]
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 […]
On Friday 8th April, we were pleased to welcome Malcolm Kitchen, a CDE Expert Network member, to present his webinar entitled ‘Opportunistic Data for Weather Forecasting’. This talk continued our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. The economic benefits of accurately targeting weather warnings is driving the development of higher resolution operational forecasting models. […]