{"id":1952,"date":"2015-08-06T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2015-08-10T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T10:43:13","slug":"warming-acidification-and-sea-level-projector-android-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/2015\/08\/06\/warming-acidification-and-sea-level-projector-android-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Warming, Acidification and Sea-level Projector Android Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Part of the EPSRC Vacation Bursaries Scheme 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Name<\/strong>: Callum Spawforth<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Degree Course:<\/strong> MEng Computer Science<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year of Study<\/strong>: 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisors<\/strong>: Prof. Alex Rogers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vacation Bursary Project Title<\/strong>: Warming, Acidification and Sea-level Projector Android Platform<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Tell us a bit about you and your chosen research field<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just completed my second year studying Computer Science with Distributed Systems. Digital technology is already ubiquitous in most people\u2019s lives, and I am enthusiastic about its potential to completely change the way people interact with and perceive the world. As part of an internship, I\u2019m working with the Agents, Interaction and Complexity (AIC) research group in the Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) department. We\u2019re aiming transform a sophisticated climate model into an application to allow people to perceive the impact of global CO2 emissions on the climate.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Tell us about your specific research project<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My specific project is a part of the Warming, Acidification and Sea-level Projector Project (WASP). The WASP project is a cross-University initiative between OES and ECS. 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