#7 - Peter Kohler - Combating Marine Litter
03/09/23 • 51 min
BimTube website: http://bim.tube
In this BimTube Podcast, we speak to Peter Kohler about data visualisation, mapping, and wider data science techniques, such as artificial intelligence (AI), that are building insights to help develop and implement strategies to combat marine litter.
Peter Kohler BSc (Hons)
Senior Marine Litter Scientist, Cefas
CEO & Co-Founder, The Plastic Tide
Peter's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-kohler-theplastictide
As the founder of The Plastic Tide, a CIO Charity, Peter works with a dedicated team of professionals and scientists who strive for a cleaner ocean for humanity. The Plastic Tide's mission is to reveal and relieve an ocean under siege from marine litter and plastics, bringing the damage this siege has on all life on this planet to the fore, informing and monitoring solutions to it.
Their cutting-edge and cross-discipline use of tech, science, drones, and citizen science gives them the unique ability to reveal the extent of the problem and inform solutions. The scalable, cost-effective power of their drone imagery and autonomous machine learning allows them to build a picture of marine litter and plastics on an unprecedented scale. This information provides scientists, politicians, campaigners, beach cleaners, and classrooms with the knowledge to help better clean all our beaches today, but also to inform the actions needed to reduce it for tomorrow.
The Plastic Tide wants to deliver an open-source platform to provide humanity, for the first time, with the knowledge needed to focus the fight against marine litter and plastics!
Independent of his work as CEO and Founder of The Plastic Tide, Peter works in an innovative team in Cefas's world-leading Marine Sciences department. Here, he analyses the full spectrum of the marine litter challenge from land to sea, from design to education. He works with governments and a full spectrum of stakeholders, within cultures and countries, to build and assist in implementing lasting national strategies to help enable change where it is needed most to combat marine litter.
About Cefas
The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) is an executive agency of the United Kingdom government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It carries out a wide range of research, advisory, consultancy, monitoring, and training activities for a large number of customers around the world.
Peter's suggested list:
Ocean Conservancy - https://oceanconservancy.org/
Marine Conservation Society - https://www.mcsuk.org/
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - https://www.unep.org/
UNEP Report: https://www.unep.org/resources/
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BimTube website: http://bim.tube
In this BimTube Podcast, we speak to Peter Kohler about data visualisation, mapping, and wider data science techniques, such as artificial intelligence (AI), that are building insights to help develop and implement strategies to combat marine litter.
Peter Kohler BSc (Hons)
Senior Marine Litter Scientist, Cefas
CEO & Co-Founder, The Plastic Tide
Peter's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-kohler-theplastictide
As the founder of The Plastic Tide, a CIO Charity, Peter works with a dedicated team of professionals and scientists who strive for a cleaner ocean for humanity. The Plastic Tide's mission is to reveal and relieve an ocean under siege from marine litter and plastics, bringing the damage this siege has on all life on this planet to the fore, informing and monitoring solutions to it.
Their cutting-edge and cross-discipline use of tech, science, drones, and citizen science gives them the unique ability to reveal the extent of the problem and inform solutions. The scalable, cost-effective power of their drone imagery and autonomous machine learning allows them to build a picture of marine litter and plastics on an unprecedented scale. This information provides scientists, politicians, campaigners, beach cleaners, and classrooms with the knowledge to help better clean all our beaches today, but also to inform the actions needed to reduce it for tomorrow.
The Plastic Tide wants to deliver an open-source platform to provide humanity, for the first time, with the knowledge needed to focus the fight against marine litter and plastics!
Independent of his work as CEO and Founder of The Plastic Tide, Peter works in an innovative team in Cefas's world-leading Marine Sciences department. Here, he analyses the full spectrum of the marine litter challenge from land to sea, from design to education. He works with governments and a full spectrum of stakeholders, within cultures and countries, to build and assist in implementing lasting national strategies to help enable change where it is needed most to combat marine litter.
About Cefas
The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) is an executive agency of the United Kingdom government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It carries out a wide range of research, advisory, consultancy, monitoring, and training activities for a large number of customers around the world.
Peter's suggested list:
Ocean Conservancy - https://oceanconservancy.org/
Marine Conservation Society - https://www.mcsuk.org/
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - https://www.unep.org/
UNEP Report: https://www.unep.org/resources/
Contact the BimTube Podcast by sending us a text message.
BimTube's Mission: "We want to build everyone’s digital knowledge with content and conversations to inspire and instigate 'Better Information Management' to enable - better decisions, better infrastructure, better services and better outcomes for our social, economic and environmental infrastructure."
- Visit the BimTube Podcast page: https://www.bim.tube
- BIM / ISO 19650 Training (sponsored): https://www.bimenable.com
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#6 - Dr Seppe Cassettari - Mapping and Geographic Data Visualisation
BimTube website: http://bim.tube
In this BimTube Podcast we speak to Dr Seppe Cassettari FBCart.S about mapping, the geospatial industry and the importance and accessibility of decision-making with geographic data visualisation.
About Dr Seppe Cassettari FBCart.S
Seppe has over 40 years experience in the mapping and geospatial industry. Having recently retired from his role running Geomni UK, he is now working part time as a consultant and training specialist.
The British Cartographic Society: https://www.cartography.org.uk/
Read about some of his current projects at: https://www.geohistoric.co.uk/
Seppe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seppe-cassettari-962b6912
His career started with the UK military where he worked for 10 years in various mapping and geo-intelligence roles, during which time he completed one of the UK’s first PhDs in GIS. He then went on to run the ground-breaking GIS undergraduate programme at Kingston University before being head hunted to run Longman GeoInformation for the publishers Pearson.
Following a management buy-out he became CEO of The GeoInformation Group in 1998 which went on to publish geospatial datasets and undertake many projects in the UK and abroad. The company is best known for the early aerial imagery databases developed in the mid 1990’s, published as Cities Revealed, and more recently the UKMap large scale topographic map base and the UKBuildings database of building type and age. The company also created the telecoms clutter data used by many mobile operators in the UK. The GeoInformation Group was sold to Verisk Inc in 2016.
Seppe continues with his interest in mapping, writing regularly for the GeoConnexions magazine and being involved in the British Cartographic Society, where he is currently President for the second time.
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Links / Resources Discussed
The British Cartographic Society: https://www.cartography.org.uk/
Government Geography Profession: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-geography-profession
The Geospatial Commission: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/geospatial-commission
GeoViz: https://www.cartography.org.uk/geoviz
GeoViz is a new programme of activity that supports and nurtures cartography, map making and geographic data visualisation. GeoViz will provide useful and informative content through a range of online material, events and more.
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#8 - David Philp - Digitally Transforming Construction
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In this podcast we speak with David Philp MSc BSc FICE FRICS FCIOB FCInstCES FGBC Chartered Construction Manager.
David is the Director of Digital Consulting, Strategy & Innovation (Europe, Digital) at AECOM and a Professor (Honorary) Heriot Watt – University.
David discusses the impacts of BIM and Digital Construction to date. As well as a look at how things are maturing to describe and measure the VALUE from a whole life approach to digital transformation for the built environment. 'Value' of course, potentially, meaning very different things to different people / stakeholders, this is discussed also [see links 1, 2, 3 below].
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David's Biography:
With over 25 years in industry David is a Chartered Construction Manager by background and Director - Digital Consulting, Strategy & Innovation for AECOM. He was previously employed by Mace as Head of BIM, and as Technical Services / BIM Programme Director with Balfour Beatty.
David has been involved in delivering innovative BIM and digital asset management strategies across the globe from UK, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Australia and the Baltics. He was seconded in the UK Cabinet Office in 2011 as Head of BIM Implementation and has been a key contributor to the UK public sector BIM mandate (GCS 2011-2016) and continues to support through his role as Impact Director at the Construction Innovation Hub. He was also seconded into the Scottish Future Trust (SFT) as Chair of the Scottish BIM Delivery Group.
He is a fellow of ICE, CIOB, RICS and CInstCES and also Vice Chair of the Construction Scotland Innovation.
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Main Links for Value:
1 - ESG - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_corporate_governance
2 - Four Capitals Model
• natural capital (including of living and non-living components)
• social capital (including relationships, norms and institutional components)
• human capital (including knowledge, experience and wisdom)
• economic capital (including cash and economic assets)
Ref: https://www.gov.scot/publications/towards-robust-resilient-wellbeing-economy-scotland-report-advisory-group-economic-recovery/pages/4/
Ref: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/nz/Documents/public-sector/sots5-fourcapisinfog.pdf
3 - Triple Bottom Line - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line
Events Discussed or Relevant:
• Digital Construction Week (DCW) - https://www.digitalconstructionweek.com/
• GEO Business -
Contact the BimTube Podcast by sending us a text message.
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- Visit the BimTube Podcast page: https://www.bim.tube
- BIM / ISO 19650 Training (sponsored): https://www.bimenable.com
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