Just a brief update on the progress of the project here at Aberystwyth. We now have Lucile Lemaire visiting from France with her experience in vegetation surveying and she is hard at work recording data from randomly selected areas of the Dyfi Biosphere. This is time consuming work and made especially difficult as she is using […]
Alisdair is a PhD case study for the IGIBS project. He is 8 months into a PhD that is developing a tool to interpret almost ant kind of imagery into part of a time line for mapping habitat change. You can view his university profile here. He says that the key descriptors for this work are […]
Today we had a Meeting with Mike Bailey, the Countryside Council For Wales (CCW) manager of the 2,300 Hectare Dyfi National Nature Reserve (NNR) that sits in the Western end of the Dyfi catchment. This NNR has areas of raised bog, sand dune and estuary within its boarders. Of particular interest for many of the […]
As you know from previous blog entries the Dyfi Virtual Observatory (DVO) is a similar project to IGIBS and is also based at Aberystwyth. I had a meeting with Nicola from the DVO yesterday and we agreed to help each other out with data sets where possible. I thought it would be good to give a […]
A quick hello from your newest member (Steve Walsh) I now have my feet under the desk at Aberystwyth and look forward to working with you all. I will try and keep up regular blogs on developments…. I had a meeting with Jonathan Brownett yesterday and got some very useful insights into the use of […]
Within IGES, key people representing users (undergraduates, postgraduates, research staff and academics, external users) have been identified as ‘case studies’ to support the IGIBS and demonstrate the beneifts for teaching and research. Within IGEs, undergraduate students have access to a wide range of modules. This project will focus on the Dissertation module and also the third […]