Our track record
Our experience and expertise in gathering, curating, analysing, and communicating environmental data, mean we are ideally placed to take advantage of the revolution in data, informatics, and artificial intelligence (AI) that is transforming environmental science. This revolution is opening up a whole new range of opportunities, which we want to harness for the benefit of the research community and professional practice, contributing to socio-economic and environmental gain.
At the same time, we recognise that environmental science has its own distinctive challenges to overcome. New technologies for sensing, measurement and modelling mean that environmental data are growing in size and complexity. Environmental data are heterogeneous in nature and can be messy, with missing values. They are rooted in time and space, and work across many scales. We need to develop effective strategies to harmonise and integrate data that can inform new activities such as green finance, and support exploration of interactions between ecosystems.