Professional summary
Gemma has extensive web development experience ranging from HTML to server management. After twelve years as a web developer at the British Geological Survey, she joined UKCEH in 2018 to learn about freshwater and help deliver water data via the web. She specialises in HTML, CSS and JavaScript (including node.js). Since joining UKCEH, she has gained data processing skills using Python and has a good understanding of spatial data wrangling.
She has a BA (Hons) in Multimedia Communication Studies, 2:2. June 2003. University of Wolverhampton.
Web tools and apps
2024:
- GOVAQUA 'Oxford Rivers portal'; current and past information about local rivers and streams within Oxford and the surrounding area.
2023:
- Bloomin' Algae portal is available for several countries; citizen science reporting of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
- Several portals for specific projects and customers; SEPA, FHIM-India, NCEA, Floating Weed Manager.
2021-22:
- Enhanced Future Flows and Groundwater (eFLaG) Portal; explore the eFLaG data which are set a nationally consistent climatological and hydrological projections for 200 river flow catchments, 588 groundwater bodies and 54 groundwater boreholes covering the UK up to 2080.
- Hydrology in Sub-Saharan Africa Portal; Projected future changes in river flows across West Africa and Nowcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Loch Leven Portal was funded by the William Grant Foundation and showcases our long-term freshwater monitoring.
- MERLIN project case studies; MERLIN learns from 17 best-practice case-study demonstrators in terms of innovative restoration measures, types of governance and financing frameworks.
- NCEA freshwater data portal is the third version of the freshwater data explorer designed to ingest new datasets easily.
- Thailand Drought Data Explorer: produced by the 'Strengthening Thailand's Agricultural drought Resilience' (STAR) project
2020-21:
- UK Hydrological Outlooks Portal provides interactive, dynamic access to visualise the model outputs from the Hydrological Outlook, both spatially and in the form of a number of time series.
- HydroSOS demonstrator portal for the World Meteorological Organisation, a WMO Hydrological Status and Outlook System
- Development of the Freshwater data explorer - combining citizen science data with data from other sources so we can start to build a clearer picture of what is happening in the environment.
2019-20:
- Development and release of the UK Water resources portal - a ‘one-stop-shop’ that brings all the latest hydrological data together in one place.
- New water quality tab for the Lakes portal to visualise Environment Agency data.
- UK-SCAPE hydrological sensor data integration tool - demonstrating the integration and visualisation of hydrological sensor data (often real-time) from diverse online sources.
- Drought data hub - browse, access and download drought data.
- Drought libraries - a nationally consistent toolkit for improved resilience in the UK public water supply sector.
- Historic Drought Inventory Explorer - search contents of the multi-sector drought inventory.
2018-19:
- COSMOS-UK, network, data and site detail webpage creation.
- updates to the NRFA website, including new live data pages.
- updates to the Lakes portal, including connectivity information and links to the National Biodiversity Network.
- development of several prototype portals for water resources.
2024:
- GOVAQUA 'Oxford Rivers portal'; current and past information about local rivers and streams within Oxford and the surrounding area.
2023:
- Bloomin' Algae portal is available for several countries; citizen science reporting of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
- Several portals for specific projects and customers; SEPA, FHIM-India, NCEA, Floating Weed Manager.
2021-22:
- Enhanced Future Flows and Groundwater (eFLaG) Portal; explore the eFLaG data which are set a nationally consistent climatological and hydrological projections for 200 river flow catchments, 588 groundwater bodies and 54 groundwater boreholes covering the UK up to 2080.
- Hydrology in Sub-Saharan Africa Portal; Projected future changes in river flows across West Africa and Nowcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Loch Leven Portal was funded by the William Grant Foundation and showcases our long-term freshwater monitoring.
- MERLIN project case studies; MERLIN learns from 17 best-practice case-study demonstrators in terms of innovative restoration measures, types of governance and financing frameworks.
- NCEA freshwater data portal is the third version of the freshwater data explorer designed to ingest new datasets easily.
- Thailand Drought Data Explorer: produced by the 'Strengthening Thailand's Agricultural drought Resilience' (STAR) project
2020-21:
- UK Hydrological Outlooks Portal provides interactive, dynamic access to visualise the model outputs from the Hydrological Outlook, both spatially and in the form of a number of time series.
- HydroSOS demonstrator portal for the World Meteorological Organisation, a WMO Hydrological Status and Outlook System
- Development of the Freshwater data explorer - combining citizen science data with data from other sources so we can start to build a clearer picture of what is happening in the environment.
2019-20:
- Development and release of the UK Water resources portal - a ‘one-stop-shop’ that brings all the latest hydrological data together in one place.
- New water quality tab for the Lakes portal to visualise Environment Agency data.
- UK-SCAPE hydrological sensor data integration tool - demonstrating the integration and visualisation of hydrological sensor data (often real-time) from diverse online sources.
- Drought data hub - browse, access and download drought data.
- Drought libraries - a nationally consistent toolkit for improved resilience in the UK public water supply sector.
- Historic Drought Inventory Explorer - search contents of the multi-sector drought inventory.
2018-19:
- COSMOS-UK, network, data and site detail webpage creation.
- updates to the NRFA website, including new live data pages.
- updates to the Lakes portal, including connectivity information and links to the National Biodiversity Network.
- development of several prototype portals for water resources.