Ikigai (生き甲斐, "a reason for being") is a Japanese concept referring to having a direction or purpose in life, providing a sense of fulfillment and towards which they the person may take actions, giving them satisfaction and a sense of meaning. en.wikipedia.org
[ Update: Part II re-uses this and improves the manual for a London area action ]
Part of our mandate at cottenham.info is to raise awareness around climate change issues in East Anglia. A key part is to quantify risks around flooding from land during increasingly variable weather, as well as to predict what sea level rise would look like over time from melting polar ice caps. That combines respectively excellent ground work by DEFRA - see their Future Fens twitter feed - and modelling against topography by Ordnance Survey and DEFRA. And timing of sea level rises is an emotional issue: to balance the reality of the risk with questions around time scales (see comment), will help raise awareness without unduly raising alarm.
Almost 1½ years from the onset of COVID, here a video of the info portal created using ESRI dashboard, inspired from the Johns Hopkins University pioneering hit - same tech with more data and expertise - our own info portal is a handy bit.ly/CamCOVIDinfo.
This update to Challenger Expedition DIY Web Map is called an "inchworm" map, as monthly points appear to worm around the globe, with an inchworm's hump at times. This caught @miniboats eye on the approach to the expedition's 150th anniversary (see also a fascination Natural History Museum post here).
Community Engagement 1, ... 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18
[ Update: see post #19 on an opportunity to use land cover information to study peat lands ]
This extends the previous flood defences update into a 3D interactive map. It also explains the DEFRA flood defences data update, in order to map the infrastructure complete with various sea level rise elevations. [Story map full-page here.]
Community Engagement 1, ... 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17
[ Update: the next blogpost extends this into a 3d interactive map wrapping up this 2 years study ]
This closes the trio of updates on sea level rise timelines and infrastructure based on newly available climate change data, since this project started two years ago.
Environment Agency's DEFRA not only manages a comprehensive Risk of Flooding for River and from Sea via ground observations and mapping, but it also manages all the infrastructure related to flood risks from the same.
Let's extend our ongoing mapping effort here to include AIMS Spatial Flood Defences (inc. standardised attributes):
Community Engagement 1, ... 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16
[ Update 3: the next installment includes Environment Agency's flood defence data
Update 2: here is an update via Enviro. Agency's outreach twitter @FutureFens
Update 1: here is a story map augmenting the last two posts with live maps... enjoy! ]
Following on the previous timelines update focusing on Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combine Authority, this is an East Anglia-wide update based on Environment Agency (EA) Survey, Office for National Statistics (ONS) Geoportal and Ordnance Survey (OS) Open Zoomstack data.
Community Engagement 1, ... 12, 13, 14 & 15
[ Update 3: the next installment updates the infrastructure aspects of this for East Anglia
Update 2: Cambridge could be completely underwater by 2100, warns Emoov report
Update 1: added slide deck at bottom, to summarize the last two years of work on this ]
After a hiatus focusing on Coronavirus and story maps on East Anglia and other mapping topics, let's revisit that moving target of sea level rise timing.
[ In the news: ‘Amazing success’ as community group plants 165 trees by banks of river Cam ]
The previous Tree planting survey 1-2-3 showed what3words used to located and post on a web map rough surveyed locations for tree planting directed by a tree surgeon, to help restore tree rows along the River Cam towpath immediately north of Cambridge UK. The beauty of turning out a web map the same day as the survey, is that shortly after, printing out the same map for tree-planting volunteers to take into the field was feasible almost as quickly. So after a 'high tech' Part I, here's a 'low tech' Part II.
[ Update: see next the fieldwork preparations that went on as a follow-up to this project
Update 2: See also other prior actions & concerns by same group here ]
New Flamingos, my Extinction Rebellion group in Cambridge decided to do a little outreach - not unlike my other group On the Edge that engages with my village around flood preparedness - we work with the community to replant trees along the left bank of the River Cam immediately North of Cambridge UK. This afternoon, a tree surgeon accompanied our survey along the river bank and suggested tree location and density as we walked.
