We are excited to invite you to the next MEDIN Open Meeting entitled “Enhancing the national framework for sharing UK marine data.” on April 26th 2023.
This event is open to all and will be hybrid taking place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and online using Zoom.
The aims of the meeting are to:
1. share marine data successes and
2. discuss priorities for enhancing the national framework for sharing UK marine data.
Read the full agenda.
Throughout the day there will be marine data focussed presentations from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO), the Met Office, Natural Resources Wales, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN). There will also be a poster session and plenty of networking opportunities.
Download the posters:
Download the presentations:
- Dr Clare Postlethwaite, Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) – “Introduction to the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network”
- Rob Yarlett, Defra – "Leveraging the marine data landscape for Natural Capital"
- Dr Jon Blower, National Oceanography Centre (NOC) - “A pilot Digital Twin for the Haig Fras Marine Protected Area”
- Mark Burgoyne, (Met Office) - “An overview of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Application Programming Interface (API) - Environmental Data Retrieval”
- Keynote: Claire Jolly, Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) “The value of marine data for the economy: some lessons learned so far…”
- John Beattie, Natural Resources Wales - “Natural Resources Wales’ Journey to Open Data and Proactive Data Sharing”
- Gemma Nash, UK Hydrographic Office – “UK Centre for Seabed Mapping: Coordinating the collection, management and accessibility of seabed mapping data through collaboration”
- John Mitchell, The Crown Estate – “Industry Data and MEDIN: 10 years of the Marine Data Exchange”.
Read the report from the discussions at the Open Meeting 2023