1. Solving Urban Challenges with Data Sophie Isaacs Nov 2014

2. Natural Environment Research Council NERC is the UK’s leading public funder of environmental science We invest £330 million each year in cutting- edge research, postgraduate training, innovation & technology

3. BPI team focus areas: Environmental Data Risk Management Infrastructure Natural Resources Sustainable Agriculture Government & Policy

4. NERC centres UK Universities

5. NERC Data

6. Data Centres Environmental Information Data Centre National Geoscience Data Centre British Atmospheric Data Centre NERC Earth Observation Data Centre British Oceanographic Data Centre Polar Data Centre UK Solar System Data Centre

7. Examples - Datasets Environmental Information Data Centre: – Hydrology of soil types – National River Flow Archive – Air Pollution Information System National Geoscience Data Centre: – Estimated Urban Soil Chemistry – Permeability Dataset for Great Britain

8. Examples - Datasets British Oceanographic Data Centre – UK National Databank of Coastal Tide Gauge Data Centre for Environmental Data Archival – Coastal Flooding by Extreme Events – Collection of Integrated Measurements of the Meteorology, Composition and Particulate Loading of London’s Urban Atmosphere as part of the ClearfLo (Clean Air for London) Project

9. Access: Data Catalogue Service Information on our data centres & Data Catalogue Service http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/ http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/