Geospatial Systems CDT

Thanks to Ruth and Michael for representing the CDT at a poster session in Newcastle yesterday attended by EPSRC Executive Chair, Prof Charlotte Deane, and her colleagues.

The CDT was well represented at the annual EGU General Assembly in Vienna last week, with four of our students presenting - well done Olivia, Francisco, Carrow and Ruth.

Well done to Cohort 3 CDT student Kene Maliehe for her paper, "A Bayesian inversion of TROPOMI methane observations over South Africa: Implications for bottom-up inventories" just published in Science of The Total Environment - see: doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…

If you're on the Newcastle University campus today, come and visit the "Geospatial Gazebo" where you can try out the start-of-the-art field equipment that students on our new Geospatial AI MSc programme will be using from this September. ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/d…

Interested in the spatial dynamics of biodiversity and cycling behaviour? If so, take a look at Philip Home's research, just published in "Health and Place": sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Proud as punch to announce that Cohort 3 student Sophie Mann won Best Poster Award at the Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference, which took place at the University of Nottingham earlier this week. Well done, Sophie!

Registrations are open for the OS Innovation Festival! 🎉 Join people from across the public and private sectors for two days of hands-on innovation, collaboration and fresh thinking using location data. Register now: ow.ly/cr6s50YKqqg

Hugely enjoyable day yesterday at the "Heritage Geospatial Symposium" hosted by Riegl UK at The Hospitium, Museum Gardens, York. We participated in a round table on the future of geospatial surveying, and Neil Sutherland delivered an invited presentation on his PhD research.

And that's wrap on Challenge Week 2026! Great week on the IoW completed today with presentation of the deliverables - many thanks to everyone involved, including IoW Council and the NDTP, but especially our amazing students. Safe trip home, everyone!

Had to personally leave island life behind earlier today, but what a privilege to spend a few days with these incredible researchers. As individuals their skills leave you in awe, but when they work together as a team... Just Wow! Can't wait to see what they produce by Friday...

Apply for a fully funded scholarship to study for a MSc in Geospatial AI at Newcastle University....

Interesting announcements on renewable energy from @energygovuk today as our PhD students report in to their CEO on their day's Challenge Week progress re: a wind and solar digital twin... if you want to solve the energy crisis you need to think geospatially!

Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive bbc.in/47ky1nn

Some brain storming, a meeting with the IoW Council, a little bit of field validation, and a sit-down stand-up on Monday sees the team ready to go hard at the challenge of locating renewable energy sites on the island on Tuesday...

And we're off... Challenge Week 2026 begins at the amazing venue of Quay Arts Newport.

Today we are on our way to the Isle of Wight for an exciting Challenge Week activity based around the National Digital Twin Programme...

Congratulations to cohort 4 CDT student Ruth Dunn who's research is featured in "Picture This: Someone Like Me", a new exhibition at the Great North Museum: Hancock that transforms Newcastle University research into illustrated artworks - see ncl.ac.uk/press/articles… for details.

Geospatial is integral to civil engineering, and today at Newcastle we are all ready to welcome applicants to our civil undergraduate programmes for an experience day. If you're considering civil engineering as a career, take a look at ncl.ac.uk/engineering/st… #EngineeringNCL

More good news to finish off a long week... Anna Klimkowska of Cohort 1 passed her PhD viva this afternoon with minor corrections - way to go, Anna! Have a great weekend!!

Well done to our very own Doreen Boyd and her Rights Lab colleagues on their award of The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education for their work on using satellites to tackle modern slavery! Read more at royalanniversarytrust.org.uk/winners/univer…