Matters pertaining to Open Source software
The NERC Digital Gathering #DG23 Hackathon event, held following the conference has now finished. We adopted a ‘collaborative’ approach to this year’s hackathon, with two groups of experienced instructors helping to facilitate the delegates to use the software tools and computational environments on offer to further their research. Expert Network member Prof. Richard Reeve and […]
Following the successful #DG23 Digital Gathering conference, comes the the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ Digital Gathering 23 Hackathon, where the first day has now completed (https://lnkd.in/ewmVU7FW). Held at Churchill College, Cambridge, the hackathon is led by Digital Environment Expert Network member Prof Richard Reeve, Professor of Population and Ecosystem Health and team from the University of Glasgow, […]
Decide stands for ‘Delivering Enhanced Biodiversity Information with Adaptive Citizen Science and Intelligent Digital Engagements’. The project concerns Precision Citizen Science: Co-designing adaptive sampling to optimise biodiversity On Friday 3rd February 2023, we were pleased to welcome Dr Michael Pocock, UKCEH (PI); Dr Tom August, Computational Ecologist, UKCEH; Dr Susan Jarvis, Quantitative Ecologist, UKCEH; Dr […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
On Friday 3rd December, we were pleased to welcome Helen Glaves, British Geological Survey, to present her webinar entitled ‘Open Science: what’s in it for me?‘. The talk continued our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Helen Glaves is a Senior Data Scientist at the British Geological Survey (BGS), with more […]
Previous blogs on this site have highlighted the strengths and advantages of Docker. Docker is a great utility tool that allows ‘containerisation’ of a very wide range of applications, where the containers are used to build images that can be shared, running applications in a way that seals them off from the rest of your computer. This […]
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 […]