Thursday 17 April 2014

COST Actions

It's been a busy few weeks but a good few weeks. After some great advice from a colleague,


I decided to have a look at EU COST Actions. COST Actions are part of a European framework supporting cooperation among scientists and researchers across Europe. I found a COST Action in a very relevant area - EO and UAV applications for agriculture. It even crosses into UAV accuracy assessment - something that I presented a paper on at the RSPSoc conference in Glasgow last September.


I got talking to someone from Edinburgh university afterwards about the same thing and it turned out that months later when I started looking into COST Actions, he is the one chairing it. So after a quick email to make sure the goals of the study corresponded with ours, I started to put together an application for the Enterprise Ireland reviewer, as they decide who to nominate as the Irish representative for the management committee. She agreed to nominate me, and the rest is history. I'm off to Brussels in the next few weeks for the kick-off meeting. Lots of excellent opportunities for networking and a chance to find out how people are getting on with their own multispectral or hyperspectral cameras - something I mentioned a few posts back.


                             


Added to that, I got some good reviews of a journal paper and found €200 in an envelope in the attic when throwing out old files! Which will come in handy - as this comic from The Upturned Microscope should explain nicely.





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My name is Conor. I am a Lecturer at the Department of Geography at Maynooth University. These few lines will (hopefully) chart my progress through academia and the world of research.