Hi! I’m Elle Smith and I’m a Software Engineer at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). The first time I started to code was in my first year of university, where I was studying physics. We had a whole module learning how to apply our programming skills to solve physics-based problems. I hated this module, I felt like I never really knew what was going on, but I stuck with it. As time went on and I practiced, I started to enjoy this work more and more, although I still never considered that software engineering would be something I would pursue. ...

Air pollution is the largest environmental health risk we face today. To better understand the sources of air pollution, and the impacts on our health and ecosystems, teams of researchers across the UK are monitoring the quality of the air we breathe. ...

Many of us have been to the coast and seen seabirds, but have you ever considered how they might be affected by climate change? The UK is surrounded by important populations of seabirds, including Arctic Tern, Kittiwake, and Puffin, that play a key role as top predators and indicators of the health of marine ecosystems. Like many animals, seabirds are exposed to climate change in both marine and terrestrial environments, but the combined effects are rarely considered. Climate change impacts seabird species through a number of mechanisms; for example, by shifting the distributions of prey species, influencing storminess which affects mortality rates, causing overheating at the nest site, or increasing sea level and reducing available breeding habitat. CEDA services were used by researchers at the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to predict future seabird abundance under both marine and terrestrial climate change, as part of the Marine Protected Area Management and Monitoring ( MarPAMM ) project. ...

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Research Software Engineer, where you will develop and maintain software used to deliver JASMIN , and to operate processes which support users in their work on the JASMIN platform. ...

An inspirational online children’s story titled Grandma’s Footsteps prompts readers to take note of changes in their environment, and to imagine what they want their own future to look like. ...

Dear JASMIN users, We are pleased to announce that a new version of the JASPY Python 3.7 software environment has been released on JASMIN. It is currently ready for testing on the JASMIN “sci” servers and the LOTUS cluster. ...

Dear users, Rescheduled work to apply a storage-related software update to key JASMIN servers (sci, xfer, hpxfer and a limited number of other machines) will take place on Friday 14th May 2021 at 08:30-10:00. A further intervention will take place during the day on Monday 17th May to reboot any servers which have not picked up the update automatically by then. In both cases, please look out for announcements at the console/command line on the machine. Sessions will be interrupted while the server is rebooted but you should be able to re-connect again after a few minutes when the machine has come back up. ...

Dear all, Apologies for the short notice but the reboot of servers planned for today announced in our recent update is cancelled. This is due to the imminent availability of a newer release which will be rolled out in due course instead, timing TBC. ...

NERC is currently considering the Data Capability and Services that are provided via the NERC Environmental Data Service (EDS) and the associated data centres: ...