Matters relating to the various forms of 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 […]
Blog credit: Louise Darroch The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. Thanks to a handy cellular modem, an evolving data broker system and the cloud, our Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies (CreamT) project […]
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 […]
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 […]
To improve the accessibility of data collected through NERC-funded research, or managed by NERC data centres, we are collecting feedback on the user experience (UX) to improve the navigation of our various web portals to assess these data. To gather feedback we are inviting you to take part in our Environmental Data Discovery Trails. We will […]
The raw material for our work in the Digital Environment programme is of course DATA and, as ever, we need improved means of sourcing and accessing appropriate datasets to support our modelling activities. NERC of course is not short of data!! There are a series of data centres associated with each of the environments, for the exact […]
In this post, we describe the development of a demonstrator for an exhibition using a Raspberry Pi. The Digital Environment team are planning to be in support of NERC in attending the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual conference and exhibition in Seattle, USA in February 2020, and are making preparations. One […]