Abstract

Environmental eScience

Highlights

  • The Internet has changed the way society operates and how scientists work

  • John began a cross-Research Council programme in eScience; this was subsequently ably led by Tony Hey

  • Other projects included eMinerals, which addressed how pollution moves through soils and groundwater and helped to identify materials for long-term encapsulation of nuclear waste; a project involving the Natural History Museum, Kew and universities to create a new way of doing taxonomy on the Web; and the development of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) DataGrid, which aims to make it easy to find and manipulate environmental datasets online

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Introduction

The Internet has changed the way society operates and how scientists work. The growth in the raw power of computers, as well as in the ways in which this power can be harnessed, allows new problems to be modelled and old issues to be studied in greater detail. National research agencies have an important role in supporting scientists as they adapt to this changing landscape.

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