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• 26/01/24: ClimateNode presents to the Alan Turing Institute Interest Group on Knowledge Graphs on current work using LLMs and knowledge graphs to analyse extreme weather impacts on companies.


• 08/10/23: ClimateNode Director Helen Jackson talks to the New Ventures podcast about how natural language processing and LLMs can be used to compile and analyse unstructured data on the economic and human welfare impacts of climate change.


• 30/10/23: Director Helen Jackson presents ClimateNode's work using Natural Language Processing to enhance our understanding of climate risks and impacts at the Aviva-Cambridge Annual Partnership Event 2023 at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge


• 23/10/23: ClimateNode participates in a workshop on using AI to track progress on climate adaptation at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.


• 13/07/23: ClimateNode's unique database of UK flood impacts is being used in a project lead by researchers at the University of Leeds to improve historical flood mapping in urban areas in Yorkshire


• 07/03/23: Results of the Urban Flash Flooding in England project released. This is the first attempt to create a detailed geospatial dataset of historic surface water flood events within the UK using information contained within newspaper reports


• 28/02/23: ClimateNode's Urban Flash Flooding in England project is featured in Circulation, the newsletter of the British Hydrological Society


• 06/02/23: ClimateNode joins the Canopy Program for impact-led startups, entrepreneurs and small businesses working in sustainability, based in Cambridge


• 31/10/22: First six maps of the Urban Flash Flooding in England in project funded by Subak released for comment link


• 20/07/22: Raconteur cites ClimateNode’s work for Bright Blue using natural language processing to research the impacts of flooding on UK infrastructure. Read: How critical infrastructure can be made more climate-resilient


• 08/06/22: ClimateNode’s work for Bright Blue using natural language processing to research UK flood impacts cited by Chair of the Environment Agency Emma Howard Boyd at annual Flood & Coast conference: read speech


• 01/06/22: ClimateNode Director Helen Jackson awarded a fellowship by Subak for a project to use natural language processing to compile a unique street-level open dataset of urban flash flood events in England from local newspaper reports, with accompanying maps.


• 08/05/22: The i describes how at-risk households need to prepare for future flooding, quoting ClimateNode Director Helen Jackson. Read: How to flood-proof your home with waterproof doors and skirting boards as Britons face future of flooding


• 19/01/22: ClimateNode’s work for Bright Blue using natural language processing to research UK flood impacts cited by Chair of the Environment Agency Emma Howard Boyd at Coastal Futures: read speech


• 06/01/22: The Yorkshire Post describes some of the findings of ClimateNode's UK flood impacts work relevant to Yorkshire. Read: Calderdale 'worst hit place in the country for school flooding', report finds
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• 05/01/22: ClimateNode's first major research output In Deep Water?: Mapping the impacts of flooding in the UK since 2007 published by think tank Bright Blue. The project used a natural language processing technique to identify individual places and assets across the UK which have been impacted by flooding. The report is accompanied by an online interactive map displaying the results.
  
  Read:
  Guardian: UK towns and cities hit by flash flooding 51 times since 2007
  Telegraph: Ditch Sunday trading laws during major floods, says think tank
  Business Green: 'This is a public safety issue': AI mapping lays bare torrent of UK disruption from floods
  Big Issue: This map shows how many times your local area has flooded since 2007
  


• 02/08/21: ClimateNode's work using natural language processing to research the impacts of flooding in the UK described in Wired Magazine. Read: The race to save the Underground from flooding