CDE Webinar – Paul Brown and team. Sentinel Treescapes for Plant Biosecurity and Risk Management – Multiple Threats

Paul Brown, Remote Sensing Scientist, Fera Science Ltd, and principal investigator of this project describe the Sentinel project and its outcomes to date, and learnings. Trees, in spite of their extremely important role in sustaining life and tackling climate change, are at risk across the UK due to a range of pests and diseases. This […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Michael Pocock and team. The DECIDE Project – Precision Citizen Science: Co-designing adaptive sampling to optimise biodiversity

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 […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Jenny Brown and team. The CreamT Project – Wave Overtopping Hazards

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; […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Kirsty Pringle, Using citizen science to measure environmental pollution – learnings from two very different studies.

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 […]

CDE Webinar – Malcolm Kitchen: Opportunistic Data for Weather Forecasting

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. […]