OceanWise to maintain and upgrade the UK’s National Tide Gauge Network
The Environment Agency (EA) has awarded the prestigious UK ‘National Tide Gauge Network’ (NTGN) maintenance contract to OceanWise who, alongside RS Divers, have proudly taken over delivery of this important project. The NTGN owned by the EA on behalf of the UK Centre for Flood Forecasting (UKCFF) and comprises 42 ‘Class A’ tide gauge sites […]
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Online Data Management Course a great success!
The online training course ‘Marine Data Management, Governance and the MEDIN Toolset’ promoted in our Winter Newsletter was attended by over 30 delegates and received excellent feedback. Over five days in April, morning presentations delivered by OceanWise and MEDIN personnel on the OTGA web-based training platform were followed up by quizzes and exercises each afternoon. […]
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Ports need to “act soon on adaption” to climate change
“Act soon on adaption” is the key message coming from a recent new report from the British Ports Association and HR Wallingford. The paper indicates that Ports needs to invest in future proofing their infrastructure to mitigate the risks from inevitable influences like sea level rise, climate change, extreme weather and tidal surges. See the […]
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Below the water line
As taking care of our world becomes increasingly important, measuring and monitoring our environment takes centre stage – in this article we look below the water line and discuss turbidity at the water’s edge, which is now arguably a crucial corner stone for measuring the health of our coastal waters. We chat with Amy Thompson, […]
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Team News – An interview with Andrew Bell
In our last newsletter we told you the exciting news about our new recruits. Over the next two issues we will be introducing them properly. In this issue we have an interview with Andrew Bell, Information Systems Manager. What most excites you about the work that you do? The chance to use my GIS and […]
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OceanWise is UK lead for European Bathymetry
“It’s a real privilege to be involved in EMODnet, which in turn is partnered with GEBCO and the Seabed 2030 project, which aims to map 100% of the world’s oceans by 2030. It’s wonderful to know that our contribution is being used in a much larger context by so many users” says Amy Thompson, Oceanographic […]
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Our Mapping Journey
Covering 71% of the Earth’s surface the marine and coastal domain should not have fallen behind its terrestrial counterpart when it came to having fit-for-purpose digital base mapping. Surprisingly though back in 1996, when terrestrial base mapping was widely available for use in GIS, there was no such thing for marine. Thanks to the efforts […]
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Embracing Change – Can Covid-19 restrictions actually lead to expansion?
Adapting to change has always been key to achieving ongoing business success. In early 2020, the world had a stark wakeup call with the realisation that Covid-19 was not something that was going to pass quickly or be tackled easily. Many businesses that could, had to adapt to new ways of working almost overnight. As […]
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‘Throwing Out the Geospatial Information Baby with the Bathwater’
There is a clear distinction across all public bodies between those that maintain geospatial information to support their public task and those for which the maintaining of geospatial information is their public task. This distinction is not apparent in the UK’s Geospatial Information Strategy, but we believe it should be, as it could inform the […]
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Autumn Workshop: ‘The Future of Marine Data’
It’s that time of year again! Normally we would be looking forward to welcoming you to our free-to-attend marine data workshop, which was planned for Tuesday 24 November 2020 in Central London. With Covid-19, this popular face to face event is now being reconsidered and we may decide to run it online instead. If we […]
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