Matters relating to data and the management of data
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 […]
On Friday 4th February, we were pleased to welcome Gwen Moncoiffe and Alexandra Kokkinaki from the NERC Environmental Data Service, to present their webinar entitled ‘Introduction to the NERC Vocab Server’. The talk continued our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Drs Gwen Moncoiffe and Alexandra Kokkinaki lead the NERC Vocabulary […]
On Friday 12th November, we were pleased to welcome Jaana Pinnick, NGDC Grants Manager at the National Geoscience Data Centre / NERC EDS, to present her webinar entitled ‘Research data management services provided by NERC EDS’. The talk commenced our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Jaana Pinnick leads the NGDC […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]