© nerc all rights reserved make a difference outside your own backyard ian jackson [email protected]

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Make a difference outside your own backyard

Ian Jackson

[email protected]


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• Targets and scope of this paper• United but diverse• You are not alone• Giving something back• Make the case• Engaging with the flat Earth society• Virtual world beyond• The whole is greater than the sum of its parts


Targets and scope of this paper


• Why geoscience modellers must make a difference within their own, geoscience modelling, community.

• Why geoscience modellers must improve their interactions with the wider world.

• The work of geological surveys……mostly

Targets and scope of this paper


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United but diverse


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United but diverse

•Experience from OneGeology •United - same basic aspiration everywhere ……•…… to model and describe multi-dimensional, multi-parameter domains•Diverse - huge disparity in resources, technology and support infrastructure ….. •….and diverse approaches to modelling by those who have the resources to do it.


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You are not alone


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You are not alone

• 3D modelling is no longer a novelty …. We need settlers as well as frontiersman

• Challenges are not likely to be unique • But we choose to re-invent our own wheel ….. • …..and then defend our “territory” which only

fragments geoscience• Need improved ways of sharing experience and

solutions. • Get on our bikes and borrow from what others in

the world have to offer.


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Giving something back


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Giving something back

• Not all have the resources, or influence • Need help to win the arguments to make the

progress their nations need• Supplying complex 3D modelling software is not

sustainable, or responsible• Pressing need is for assistance in developing basic

infrastructure • Huge appetite for knowledge that we have – even

the routine things• Real opportunities to spread knowledge and add

value outside our accustomed territory


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Make the case

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• Most (but not all) geoscientists don’t need to be convinced of value of 3 or 4D models,

• But models are a substantial investment in data and skills acquisition over conventional 2D outputs

• Management and external clients need the cost benefit case

• We fail to make the case persuasively – if we make it at all

• Possible outcome of workshop? - a set of use cases and/or cost-benefit cases …… ….communicated in plain English

Make the case


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Engaging with the flat Earth society

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Engaging with the flat Earth society

• SDI are centre stage nationally and globally• Geographers are leading them• Geoscience is relatively silent• X and Y prime; Z and T subordinate• Real world requires real world modelling• Topographic community more mature and

professional in data management, interoperability and dissemination

• How can geographic and geological communities better share their expertise and experience?


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The virtual world beyond


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The virtual world beyond

• Must make the fullest use of the internet.• Full modelling workflow, esp. delivery, must be

web-enabled …and …..• Interactive…..and easy to use….and complying

with international spatial data and applications interoperability standards.

• Must also integrate developments in visualisation and virtualisation and web-enable these

• Then convince the internal doubters and new external users of the advantages of a 3D world


The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

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from Robert G. Bailey

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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

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from Robert G. Bailey

(1996)

• Geology , natural resources, hazards, climate change show no respect for political boundaries

• Issues transcend geoscience - multidisciplinary • Need to exploit every opportunity to add value by

collective action. • Share and collaborate more, inside and outside our

domain• Management must have confidence to look beyond

short-term local solution ….and…• ….recognise it is joined-up geoscience modelling

that will sustain and have lasting strategic value


In summary• We live in a complex,

rapidly changing, shrinking world

• It is multi-disciplinary science that can model and predict the real world that has the best chance of success

• We will be more innovative and our results sustain and be deployed if we work together


Thank you to many colleagues in BGS and OneGeology

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