Today is International Women’s Day and we’d like to celebrate our diverse team within CEDA. At present, we have 12 female colleagues who make up approximately 40% of the team. Our roles range from User Support on the helpdesk, to Data Scientists, to Head of CEDA; all falling within Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) areas. Historically, there are inequalities in gender within these areas and we are continually working to improve the balance. ...

JASMIN Unavailability Wednesday 14th March (see previous email) Changes to Group Workspace Storage (see previous email) Changes to /work/scratch storage. Draining of LOTUS jobs starts TODAY 7th March. General “at risk” during phase4 installation work. For Items 1 & 2, please refer to our earlier announcement of 23/02/2018 or visit http://www.jasmin.ac.uk/phase4 for details. ...

JASMIN Unavailable Wednesday 14th March Changes to Group Workspace storage There will be a major upgrade of JASMIN over the next few months , more than doubling the available storage and adding significantly more compute. The upgrade will involve a rolling programme of data migration that will affect everyone. ...

The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is an open source international collaboration that provides a robust, distributed data and computation platform in support of the international climate modelling community. The federation enables access to Peta-scale scientific data for the purpose of supporting large collaborative projects such as CMIP6 the 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. ESGF is used by scientists around the world to access data, such as CMIP, to study the changing climate. Data from ESGF are ultimately used by government bodies for policy making decisions both at the national and international level such as the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). ...

A stand at NERC’s public engagement event, called UnEarthed , was recently run by CEDA (Centre for Environmental Data Analysis*) staff. UnEarthed was a showcase of the diverse environmental science undertaken by NERC scientists, ranging from decaying Puffins, making clouds in a bottle, to virtual reality floods. The event was free to attend at Dynamic Earth, in Edinburgh, and nearly ~7000 people visited over 4 days. ...

CEDA have filled the archive space allocated for the Sentinel mirror data archive. The recent power outage has further delayed our efforts of moving older data to the Near Line Archive (NLA). This allows archive space to be allocated to new and gapfilling data. ...

Last week CEDA rolled out some new features to help CEDA archive users to find datasets in the CEDA archive and link back to additional information. ...

System updates will be applied to CEDA and JASMIN servers on Tuesday 14th November between 7-9 am as part of routine maintenance. ...

On Friday 29th September, the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) hosted key partners from the PRISE project; including a variety of organisations across the UK, Zambia, Kenya and Ghana as part of the UK Stakeholder workshop. ...