Introducing our latest cohort of Fellows unlocking & sharing climate data
As individuals, with daily reminders of the rapid acceleration of the climate crisis all around us, it’s often easy to feel overwhelmed. Whether it’s writing to your MP, switching to a vegan lifestyle, or choosing public transport - there are such a range of ways you can get involved with climate action.
Today we’ll spotlight six individuals who have chosen to take their contribution to climate action even further through working on various pieces of the climate data puzzle. Whether it’s answering calls for a local authority electric vehicle dashboard, mapping UK flash flood data through natural language processing, or creating a sustainability-focused knowledge graph, our latest cohort of Fellows from across the world are all focused on spearheading accessible climate data to accelerate action.
Our Global Fellowship programme, which provides a £10k (AUD$20k) grant for individuals to conduct an innovative, data-driven climate project, is open to applicants from across the globe. Back in March, we put out a call for targeted Fellowship projects aligned with the build of our Data Cooperative.
Meet our latest cohort:
Karl Bach (🇬🇧) will bring together data and develop a proof-of-concept to demonstrate the feasibility and value of vehicle-to-grid for EV (electric vehicle) owners. Vehicle-to-grid technology has the potential to save households thousands on their annual energy bill and lower global CO2 emissions by over 1 billion tonnes by 2050.
Grant Wilson (🇬🇧) will provide an interactive map/dashboard that can be used by local authorities and other energy system stakeholders, to better understand the level of electric vehicle registration over time, and the evolution of EV infrastructure.
Ellie Young (🇺🇸) will develop an open source ontology that describes the causal linkages between economics, society, climate, and sustainability challenges. The project will create a portal for data entry, and will develop a pilot to crowdsource data through the portal to form a publicly accessible knowledge graph, connected to the Common Action community of innovators, academic experts and local communities.
Helen Jackson (🇬🇧) will use natural language processing of local newspaper reports to compile a street-level dataset of urban flash flood events in England in recent years, and present this on a series of annotated maps.
Ghislain Irakoze (🇷🇼) will produce a predictive analytical dashboard that could allow the drivers to track the efficiency and maintenance needs of critical components of their EVs. The generated data will be essential in saving maintenance costs & time as well as improving the trust among EV users which could propel the E-mobility transition in Rwanda.
Joel Chambers (🇦🇺) will be working on a complete sustainable vineyard management plan, utilising cover cropping for carbon capture, straw spreading for water retention and weed management, sheep grazing for weed management and organic fertiliser and crop crimping for organic midrow protection.
Each Fellow is running their own data-focused project of between six and twelve months. The dual aims of the Fellowship are to:
Catalogue a data asset for Subak’s Data Cooperative, which will help in some way to address climate change.
Give the Fellow the time, money and support to really deep dive into their chosen area of interest, and make them ready to propel their career in climate.
“The Subak Fellowship scheme gives people the opportunity to explore data-driven ideas to tackle the climate and nature crisis. We’re looking forward to seeing exciting new research and data being published for the community to use, share and build on to tackle climate change.”
Want to get involved? Explore our Programmes and register your interest for our next Fellows cohort.