Andy Turner's Blog 2011-08 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Blog
Events:
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- OpenCoffee {Leeds}
- Events planning to attend/attended
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  - OpenCoffee {Leeds}
- Events on the horizon:
  - The seventh IEEE e-Science conference (IEEE e-Science 2011)
    - http://www.escience2011.org/
    - 2011-12-05 to 2011-12-08, Stockholm, Sweden.
  - UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2011
    - http://www.allhands.org.uk/Call%20for%20Abstracts
    - 2011-09-26 to 2011-09-29, York, UK.
  - The Difference that Makes a Difference: an interdisciplinary workshop on information and technology
    - http://www.dtmd2011.info/home
    - 2011-09-07 to 2011-09-09, Milton Keynes, UK.
Funding Opportunities
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- Google Research Awards
  - http://research.google.com/university/relations/research_awards.html
  - Deadline for applications: February 1 and August 1 of each year.
- JISC
  - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/
2011-09-05
2011-08-19
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- Miscellanea
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- Teaching
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- e-Science
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2011-08-18
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- Miscellanea
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- Teaching
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- e-Science
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2011-08-17
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- Miscellanea
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  - Collaboration with Wenjuan Zhu (Crystal) about open data, land cover, land use and agricultural data
    - I showed Crystal how to use her personal University of Leeds Web pages and we set up an initial home page
      - http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~gyzw/
      - Crystal will request to link this with her official School of Geography web page
    - http://agcensus.edina.ac.uk
    - http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/landuse/interactive/clc-download
    - http://edc2.usgs.gov/glcc/glcc.php
    - http://www.countrysidesurvey.org.uk/land-cover-map-2007
    - Brian Irvine also offered to help Crystal with land cover/land use data
    - We discussed fuzzy classification and the difficulties of defining a single land use or land cover for any region
    - Recalling the work of MEDALUS III and MedAction
      - Oh for the time and energy to make all this work again...
- Teaching
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- e-Science
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2011-08-16
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- Miscellanea
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- Teaching
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- e-Science
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2011-08-12
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- e-Science
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2011-08-11
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- Miscellanea
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  - Telephone call with Naomi Vandervelden
- Teaching
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- e-Science
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2011-08-10
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2011-08-08
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2011-08-04
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- Miscellanea
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  - http://talkaboutequality.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/if-a-married-lesbian-couple-saves-40-teens-from-the-norway-massacre-and-no-one-writes-about-it-did-it-really-happen/#comment-1618
- data.leeds.ac.uk
- e-Science
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2011-08-03
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2011-08-02
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- Miscellanea
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  - Applied to become an Agent for the SSI Agents Network
    - http://software.ac.uk/agents
  - SRDS Review Meeting
    - My reviewer requested that details of this remain confidential and to not give public access to the Google docs document I developed for it which is linked below, but which for the time being only me and my reviewer are authorised to access:
      - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q_k0uquBwPhFxdPPdLhGnWePs8ZxNl7Y6lJ6XRMFIF8/edit?hl=en_US
- data.leeds.ac.uk
- Publication
  - I got a rejection letter from Environment and Planning A about my submission
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- e-Science
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2011-08-01
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- Miscellanea
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  - http://asksteve.software.ac.uk/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-627
- Teaching
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- e-Science
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2011-07-29