The UK-Environmental Observation Framework (UK-EOF) strives to change the way the UK perceives, values, archives and uses information from observation activities by working across public departments and agencies, the voluntary sector, industry and academia. The overall aim of the UK-EOF is to shape the UK's capability to:
"facilitate the ongoing environmental evidence required to understand the changing natural environment and its societal interactions, thus guiding current and future environmental management, policy, science and innovation priorities for economic benefit and quality of life".
More about UK EOF...
What's New
- WOW - Submit your climate data!
The Met Office 'Weather Observation Website' WOW has been running since June 2011 and has attracted many amateur data recorders from across the UK and further afield. You can submit records for temperature, pressure, humidity and so on, to the website. Records can be viewed geographically so it is easy to find weather data that could have been supplied by many sources.
Over 8 million observations were submitted in the first 4 months and the interest in the WOW continues to grow. Photographers can also join in by submitting records of the weather in pictures.
The success of the website indicates the appetite for amateur records to share their information and ensure their data are used by others. UK-EOF wants to celebrate this success and is working to encourage other organisations to involve amateur recorders.
- WILDCOMS is launched!
The WILDCOMS (Wildlife Disease & Contaminant Monitoring and Surveillance) is a new NERC-funded Knowledge Exchange network formed between the various UK surveillance schemes that monitor disease and contaminants in vertebrate wildlife. It is funded through a NERC Knowledge exchange grant.
WILDCOMS aims to provide a focal point for disease and contaminant monitoring in wild vertebrates as well as provide key stakeholders (such as policy makers, regulators, NGOs and industry) with an integrated overview of the health status of UK wild vertebrates. The network will facilitate collaboration between the WILDCOMS network partners and aim to identify disease and contaminants of emerging concern.
For more information visit the WILDCOMS website.
