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July 17, 2018 • 3 min read • News

Help us make an impact! One survey, six focus groups and an MSc project how we plan to better evidence our impact

The Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) needs to keep users and stakeholders informed of the latest developments, but also evidence the impact of its services (i.e. the CEDA archive, JASMIN) to its funders. To help do this we have created a new role within the CEDA team; meet our Communications Manager, Poppy Townsend. Poppy is now responsible for our external communications to users, such as social media and website content, as well as working out how best to measure our impact. ...

July 16, 2018 • 2 min read • News

Third annual JASMIN conference presentations available now!

Scientists using the UK’s largest environmental super computer and data store gathered last month to share their experiences of big data environmental science and now you can view their presentations too. ...

May 31, 2018 • 5 min read • News

Global gathering of data scientists at PV2018 - view their presentations now!

PV2018 took place at CEDA’s home site in Harwell, Oxfordshire on 15-17th May. The conference​ focussed on addressing the opportunities in understanding vast datasets and assessing ways to take that new information and make it useable to the widest variety of disciplines for societal benefit and commercial growth. ...

May 24, 2018 • 1 min read • News

New CEDA Privacy and Cookie Notice and Archive Terms and Conditions

A new CEDA Privacy and Cookie Notice, which users can view here , has been released. This aims to give greater clarity on how CEDA holds and makes use of user information. ...

May 3, 2018 • 3 min read • News

CEDA Data Catalogue - new, improved search functions!

Finding the right data for your research can often be a daunting task… especially when faced with a vast archive of over 5000 datasets with 180 million files to choose from, such as in the CEDA archive! However, CEDA are pleased to announce a major step towards helping resolve this conundrum; bringing the power of industry search tools and direct metadata harvesting at scale to solve these problems. ...

April 13, 2018 • 2 min read • News

Getting started with JASMIN - watch the webinar now!

On 21st March, we ran our first ever webinar called ‘Getting started with JASMIN’. The aim of the webinar was to provide a basic overview for new users wanting to learn about what JASMIN is, and how to get access. Over 80 people registered, from a range of institutes and scientific disciplines. The webinar was recorded and is freely available to view here . We plan to run future webinars approximately every 3 months. ...

April 3, 2018 • 1 min read • News

CEDA WPS Service presently down

The CEDA Web Processing Service (WPS) is presently encountering issues following migration of relates storage areas supporting this service. The systems admin team are presently investigating this issue and we hope that normal service will resume soon. ...

March 9, 2018 • 1 min read • News

CEDA archive and websites unavailable on 14th March due to JASMIN upgrade

As you may be aware, JASMIN is undergoing a massive upgrade (more info here) to double its storage capability to 44PB. This means that there will be some disruption to services on 14th March between 07:00 - 19:00. ...

March 8, 2018 • 4 min read • News

Upgrade to UK environmental science supercomputer will make it twice as capable

A major upgrade is being made to double the storage available on JASMIN; a globally unique data intensive supercomputer for environmental science. The upgraded system will support the global analysis of the next generation of climate models and provide a venue for UK academia and industry to exploit Earth observation data. ...

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