EI Seminars 2023/24
The Environmental Intelligence monthly Seminar Series 2023/24 is organised by CDT students for CDT students, giving all students an opportunity to present their science and research projects in a supportive community of peers. Each month different students will present in a format or theme of their choice with opportunities for questions.
EI Seminars 2022/23
The Environmental Intelligence Seminar Series is a joint initiative of the CDT and the Exeter Environmental Intelligence Research Network. The series of weekly seminars showcases EI research across all disciplines at the University of Exeter and provides a platform for external organisations to share their interests in EI with our community.
Term 1
| Date | No. | Contributor | Content | Location | Time |
| Thu Oct 6th | 1.1 | Student Panel (Arthur Vandervoort, Joshua Redmond and Ellie Duncan) | A panel of CDT students will each present their work and take part in a chaired discussion. |
Building One: Constantine Leventis Room | 15:00-16:30 |
| Thu Oct 13th | 1.2 | Dan Bebber and Mohsin Raza |
'Climate change, biotic yield gaps and disease pressure in cereal crops.' | Harrison 170 | 15:00-16:30 |
| Thu Oct 20th | 1.3 | Benno Simmons | 'Biodiversity, data science and AI.' | Queens LT6/1 | 15:00-16:30 |
| Thu Oct 27th | 1.4 | Regan Early | 'Why do species live where they do?' | Queens LT6/1 | 15:00-16:30 |
| Fri Nov 4th | 1.5 | Jim Haywood | 'From volcanoes and wildfires through to geoengineering: the wide-ranging role of aerosoles in the climate system.' | Laver LT6 | 13:00-14:30 |
| Thu Nov 10th |
1.6 | Main talk from Max Falkenberg followed by a short talk from Ben Dennes |
Max - 'Climate polarisation during COP on Twitter.' Ben - 'Facebook Advertising and misinformation during COP27: A report from the Climate War Room.' |
Queens LT6/1 | 15:00-16:30 |
| Thu Nov 17th |
1.7 | Hugh Williamson | 'Responsible Plant Data Linkage.' | Harrison 102 | 15:00-16:30 |
| Thu Nov 24th |
1.8 |
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| Thu Dec 1st | 1.9 | Jennifer Catto | 'High impact weather in a changing climate.' | Harrison 102 | 15:00-16:30 |
| Thu Dec 8th | 1.10 | Anna Harper | 'Using emulators of carbon cycle models to predict ecosystem services.' | Building One: Pearson Room | 15:00-16:30 |
| Wed Dec 14th |
1.11 | Georgie Bennett and Kyle Roskilly | 'SENSUM: Smart SENSing of landscapes Undergoing hazardous hydrogeomorphic Movement.' | Physics 124 | 11:45-13:15 |
Term 2
Main contributors lined up for Term 2 include:
- Keith Challis, Remote Sensing Coordinator - External, National Trust
- Joel Freedman, Head of Innovation Services - External, Satellite Applications Catapult
- Tim Lenton, Director Global Systems Institute (GSI)
- Peter Challenor, Professor in Mathematics and Statistics and PI on the Excalibur EXA-UQ project
- Ben Lambert, Senior Lecturer, mathematician, statistician and epidemiologist
- Cedric Mesnage, Turing-Exeter Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Term 2 EI Seminars will have an improved format, the first hour will cover talks and the last 30 minutes will be for discussion.
A main contributor will speak for 30-40 minutes followed by a second contributor, drawn from our EI CDT PhD student community, who will speak for 10-12 minutes.
| Date | No. | Contributors | Content | Location | Time |
| Thu Jan 19th | 2.1 | Josh Redmond (PhD Student) |
Peter - 'Decision making with uncertain models.' Josh - 'Using Diffusion Models for Remote Sensing Anonymisation.' |
Physics 124 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Feb 2nd | 2.2 | Alice Wells (PhD Student) |
Ben - 'Using statistics to understand the epidemology of mosquito-borne diseases.' Alice - 'The Raikoke Eruption: including ash in model simulations reveals improved agreement to observations.' |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Feb 9th | 2.3 | CANCELLED |
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| Thu Feb 16th | 2.4 | CANCELLED |
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| Thu Feb 23rd |
2.5 | Cedric Mesnage Frederica Poznansky (PhD Student) |
Cedric - 'Project Darwin : Species identification accuracy optimisation with automated copy-pasting for camera-trap images.' Frederica - 'Acoustic Ecosystems: PAM for Peat Swamp Forest Conservation & Restoration in Central Kalimantan'. |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Mar 2nd |
2.6 | Chris Kerry (PhD Student) |
Tim - ‘Positive tipping points to avoid climate tipping points.’ Chris - ‘Enforcement, Remote Sensing, and Data Science for Effective Illegal Fishing Deterrence.’ |
Laver LT3 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Mar 9th | 2.7 | Guy Lomax (PhD Student) Sara Sjosten (PhD Student) |
Guy - 'Remote sensing of rangeland health and resilience in East Africa.’ Sara - 'Modeling biotic-abiotic ecosystem feedbacks in deep time.' |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Mar 16th | 2.8 | CANCELLED |
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| Thu Mar 23rd | 2.9 | Keith Challis Arthur Vandervoort (PhD Student) |
Keith - 'Environmental Intelligence: Actionable Insight For Land Management.' Arthur - 'Gender mobility differences in São Paulo using statistical matching.' |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Mar 30th |
2.10 | Joel Freedman Ned Westwood (PhD Student) |
Joel - 'Solving environmental challenges with space technology using a User Centred Design approach.' Ned - ‘Advertising the Heroes and Villains of Climate Change: Narrative Portrayals of Opinion Leaders in Sponsored Posts on Facebook.’ |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
Term 3
Main contributors lined up for Term 3 include:
- Stevienna de Saille, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Sheffield (External)
- Mary Sanford, PhD researcher, Oxford Internet Institute (External)
- Shuntaro Hata, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University (External)
- Travis Coan, Associate Professor in Computational Social Science
- Ernest Schwartz-Marin, Lecturer in Sociology
- James Dyke, Assistant Director Global Systems Institute
- Peter Melville-Shreeve, Lecturer in Engineering & Entrepreneurship
| Date | No. | Contributors | Content | Location | Time |
| Thu May 4th | 3.1 | CANCELLED |
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| Thu May 11th | 3.2 | Shuntaro Hata Ellie Fox (PhD Student) |
Shuntaro - 'Applications of terrain models for monitoring glaciers & glacial lakes' Ellie - 'Data and laws for protecting cryospheric water resources in Chile' |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu May 18th | 3.3 | Nicola Wilson (PhD Student) |
James - 'The wacky races to avoid dangerous climate change' Nicola - 'Responsible use of earth observation data for sustainable finance' |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu May 25th | 3.4 |
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Stevienna - ''Responsibility and de-growth: Challenging 'growth, growth, growth'' |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu June 1st | 3.5 | Manju Bura (PhD Student) |
Ernesto - 'Data Justice in the Multiveillant society: Spyware, mass-graves, and the citizen-led search for the victims of disappearance in Mexico' Manju - 'The social life of heatwaves: discursive construction of heatwaves in the mass media and through lived experiences' |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |
| Thu Jun 8th | 3.6 | Mary Sanford |
Mary - 'Applications of social data science to environmental communication on social media' Travis - 'Classifying climate change misinformation using dynamic few-shot learning' |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:30 |
| Thu June 15th | 3.7 | Nathanael Sheehan (PhD Student) |
Peter - 'Towards Intelligent Water Systems' Nathanael - 'Open science: Diversity and Injustice' |
Laver LT6 | 14:30-16:00 |