TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Digital Technologies in Responding to the Grand Challenges of the Natural Environment
T2 - The Windermere Accord
AU - Blair, Gordon S.
AU - Bassett, Richard
AU - Bastin, Lucy
AU - Beevers, Lindsay
AU - Borrajo, Maribel Isabel
AU - Brown, Mike
AU - Dance, Sarah L.
AU - Dionescu, Ada
AU - Edwards, Liz
AU - Ferrario, Maria Angela
AU - Fraser, Rob
AU - Fraser, Harriet
AU - Gardner, Simon
AU - Henrys, Peter
AU - Hey, Tony
AU - Homann, Stuart
AU - Huijbers, Chantal
AU - Hutchison, James
AU - Jonathan, Phil
AU - Lamb, Rob
AU - Laurie, Sophie
AU - Leeson, Amber
AU - Leslie, David
AU - McMillan, Malcolm
AU - Nundloll, Vatsala
AU - Oyebamiji, Oluwole
AU - Phillipson, Jordan
AU - Pope, Vicky
AU - Prudden, Rachel
AU - Reis, Stefan
AU - Salama, Maria
AU - Samreen, Faiza
AU - Sejdinovic, Dino
AU - Simm, Will
AU - Street, Roger
AU - Thornton, Lauren
AU - Towe, Ross
AU - Hey, Joshua Vande
AU - Vieno, Massimo
AU - Waller, Joanne
AU - Watkins, John
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is partially supported by the DT/LWEC Senior Fellowship (awarded to G.B.) in the Role of Digital Technology in Understanding, Mitigating and Adapting to Environmental Change, EPSRC: EP/P002285/1, and by the greater Ensemble research programme. The authors would also like to thank Dee Hennessy (Creative Exchange) and Steve Cross (Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow) for their creativity and energy in facilitating the workshop and steering us toward an energizing conclusion. The summit was held in an area of outstanding natural beauty, with the venue being located on the shores of Lake Windermere, the largest lake in the Lake District, UK (with the Lake District recently being awarded UNESCO World heritage Status). We thank our hosts for providing such an inspiring venue for our deliberations, one where we were constantly reminded of the wonders of the natural environment. Both G.B. and T.H. are on the advisory board of Patterns. The authors declare no other competing interests.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/1/8
Y1 - 2021/1/8
N2 - Digital technology is having a major impact on many areas of society, and there is equal opportunity for impact on science. This is particularly true in the environmental sciences as we seek to understand the complexities of the natural environment under climate change. This perspective presents the outcomes of a summit in this area, a unique cross-disciplinary gathering bringing together environmental scientists, data scientists, computer scientists, social scientists, and representatives of the creative arts. The key output of this workshop is an agreed vision in the form of a framework and associated roadmap, captured in the Windermere Accord. This accord envisions a new kind of environmental science underpinned by unprecedented amounts of data, with technological advances leading to breakthroughs in taming uncertainty and complexity, and also supporting openness, transparency, and reproducibility in science. The perspective also includes a call to build an international community working in this important area.
AB - Digital technology is having a major impact on many areas of society, and there is equal opportunity for impact on science. This is particularly true in the environmental sciences as we seek to understand the complexities of the natural environment under climate change. This perspective presents the outcomes of a summit in this area, a unique cross-disciplinary gathering bringing together environmental scientists, data scientists, computer scientists, social scientists, and representatives of the creative arts. The key output of this workshop is an agreed vision in the form of a framework and associated roadmap, captured in the Windermere Accord. This accord envisions a new kind of environmental science underpinned by unprecedented amounts of data, with technological advances leading to breakthroughs in taming uncertainty and complexity, and also supporting openness, transparency, and reproducibility in science. The perspective also includes a call to build an international community working in this important area.
KW - DSML 1: Concept: Basic principles of a new data science output observed and reported
KW - data science
KW - digital environment
KW - digital technologies
KW - environmental science
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099041460&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.patter.2020.100156
DO - 10.1016/j.patter.2020.100156
M3 - Article
C2 - 33511362
SN - 2666-3899
VL - 2
JO - Patterns
JF - Patterns
IS - 1
M1 - 100156
ER -
