Better Hardware, Better Research

Jo Walsh

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

April 29, 2025

Overview

  • A bit about me!
  • UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
  • Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship for 2025
  • Open Source Hardware for Environmental Sensing
  • How can I help GOSH and vice versa?

zool, wearing green, at Map Limehouse

A view of Lake Windermere, hub of a 130 year monitoring project

A paper based on an Engineering Workshop prototype

Neil Mullinger delivering part of the “Field Electronics and Sensors” course

Alba Gomez Segura installing an AMI moth monitor

Better Hardware, Better Research

A scene from Edinburgh Hacklab

A futuristic mushroom sensor designed with kids by BBC R&D

A drone firing sharp projectiles with MicroMoth acoustic sensors into the tree canopy

The classic data science plane damage image, but it’s a bird

Concept design for a dog backpack wireless router

RC2014 Mini Picasso