I-CISK is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program as part of the European Green Deal, which aims to deliver tailored climate services (CS) in a trustworthy, understandable, replicable and effective way. As part of the project, we’re tackling climate challenges head-on in seven different regions across Europe and Africa. Each region presents its own unique climate hurdles that require tailored solutions. Here, we highlight our people-centered approach that emphasizes co-design, co-creation, co-implementation and co-evaluation across key sectors vulnerable to climate change. Our goal is to create tailored solutions that truly work for citizens, stakeholders and decision-makers.
Dutch Climate Forecasts: My experience at 52°North
Hi! My name is Ricardo Buitenhuis, and in this little blog I will tell you about my time here at 52°North as part of my bachelor thesis in computer science. But first, who am I and how did I get here?
I grew up in the Netherlands and while doing my bachelors at Avans University of Applied Sciences in s’-Hertogenbosch, I was convinced I wanted to finish my studies in Germany, for the simple fact that I like the German language. As someone with just a background in computer science, I knew the geo side would be new to me, and a challenge, but I thought it would be fun to combine software development and geography. So after extensive googling I found 52°North and just applied!
52N @ EGU General Assembly
Vienna! Known for its outstanding beauty, its distinct culture, and the EGU General Assembly. Well, ok, EGU is probably only in the minds of people with a geoscience background, because EGU is the European Geosciences Union, and the General Assembly is the annual conference full of oral talks and poster presentations. The conference is not just big, it is huge. This year (April 23 – 28, 2023), more than 17,000 people from research and industry gathered in Vienna to disseminate their findings, network with familiar and unfamiliar faces, and listen to presentations covering all disciplines in earth sciences. This makes the conference one of the few opportunities to reach such a diverse audience and get feedback or inspiration from many different experts.
So, how can such a conference be complete without 52°North? Short answer: It can’t! For this reason, 52°North’s research software engineers Katharina Demmich and Markus Konkol headed south to talk about research data infrastructures in the context of the I-CISK project, harmonized sharing of ocean observing data, and communicating data quality through open reproducible research in the context of the MINKE project.