Thursday, November 15, 2012

Two new job opportunities

As part of the upcoming EU-funded CHARMe project (led by the University of Reading) we are seeking two new members of staff (one researcher and one project coordinator), to work closely with the ReSC and the National Centre for Earth Observation. See the ReSC jobs page for more details.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Job Opportunity at ReSC: Geospatial Software Developer


Grade 6 - £27,578 to £35,938 per annum
Closing date: 22nd October 2012
Interview date: 5th November 2012

We are seeking to appoint an imaginative and talented individual to develop new methods and tools for visualising complex environmental datasets.

You will have strong programming skills in the Java language and experience or interest in environmental science. Experience with open geospatial standards and technologies will be advantageous.

This post will offer many opportunities for career development through collaborations with academic partners, industry and government agencies.

For full details and to apply, search for job reference RS12053 in the keywords at http://www.reading.ac.uk/jobs.

For further particulars, please click here.

Please contact the ReSC Technical Director Jon Blower with informal enquiries. Applications must be submitted through the University website.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Job opportunity at ReSC: Deputy Technical Director

Grade 7 - £37,012 to £45,486 per annum
Closing date: 27th August 2012
Interview date: 6th September 2012

We need an imaginative and talented individual to take a leading role in designing and developing new applications and services based on cutting-edge scientific research and information technology.

You will have a strong background in Information Technology or Computer Science and experience or interest in Environmental Science. You will need to be able to work individually and in small teams and to be able to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders.

This post will offer many opportunities for career development through collaborations with academic partners, industry and government agencies.

For full details and to apply, search for job reference RS12041 in the keywords at http://www.reading.ac.uk/jobs.

For further particulars, please click here.

Please contact the ReSC Technical Director Jon Blower with informal enquiries. Applications must be submitted through the University website.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

NERC Virtual Observatory International Conference

There was a ReSC presence at the recent NERC Environmental Virtual Observatory (EVO) International Conference, which included the first public demonstration of the EVO web portal (developed by ReSC and other partners). The portal allows users to view water quantity and quality data in the UK, and to run simple hydrological and macronutrient models in the cloud, and to visualise the results.

The theme of the conference was 'Harnessing Emerging Technologies for Environmental Science' and included talks by international speakers from the US, Australia, EU, UK Government, the IT industry, and the academic and research sector.

The EVO web portal was one of a number of demonstrations and was well received. The feedback from this event will be invaluable in helping to shape the future vision of EVO in general and the web portal and cloud services in particular.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

ReSC involvement in the NERC Virtual Observatory

The Reading e-Science Centre is involved with creating the web portal for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Environmental Virtual Observatory pilot (EVOp).

EVOp is a proof of concept project to develop new cloud-based applications for accessing, interrogating, modelling and visualising environmental data. By developing local and national scale exemplars, EVOp is demonstrating how cloud technologies can make environmental monitoring and decision making more efficient, effective and transparent to the whole community.

The key feature of EVOp is that it will allow users to run simple hydrological models in the cloud. ReSC is involved in creating the web interface from which these flooding and water quality models will be run.

The prototype web portal will be demonstrated at the upcoming EVO international conference at the Royal Geographical Society on the 16th of May (see http://www.evo-uk.org/evo-cloud-services-portals/get-involved/evo-international-conference-london-16-may-2012/). For more information on EVOp see http://www.evo-uk.org.