Matters pertaining to the natural and built environment
On Friday 18th March, we were pleased to welcome Professor Rob Allan from ACRE, to present his webinar entitled ‘CDE Webinar – Prof. Rob Allan: ACRE and International Global Weather Data Rescue’. This talk commenced our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. During the 1990s, Rob worked at the then CSIRO Division for Atmospheric Research in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
On Thursday 20th May we were pleased to welcome Professor Gordon Blair of Lancaster University and Dr Michael Hollaway of UKCEH to present their joint webinar entitled ‘Virtual labs and digital environments: can virtual lab technology support a paradigm shift towards a more open, collaborative and integrative environmental science?’, together with a live demonstration of […]
We’ve just competed our 2nd round of #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery trails. This trail focused on meteorology and ran 11th – 14th & 21st – 24th April 2021. It comprised 5 questions to explore the Met Office’s Weather Observations Website (WOW), and 4 questions to explore the Meteorological Observations taken from Ben Nevis and Fort William available through NERC’s repository for […]
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 […]
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 […]