The National Institute for Environmental eScience (NIEeS) was a collaboration between

Natural Environment Research Council The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is a British research council that supports research, training and knowledge transfer activities in the environmental sciences. History NERC began in 1965 when several environmental (mainly geog ...

(NERC) and the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

. It was established in July 2002 and in addition to its main role of promoting and supporting the use of

e-Science E-Science or eScience is computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require grid computing; the term sometimes includes technologies that enable dist ...

and grid technologies within the field of environmental research, its purpose was to: * Train scientists in environmental eScience * Demonstrate environmental eScience * Help develop the environmental eScience community * Aid collaborations between scientists and industries It was intended as a national resource to be "owned by the whole community". The website remains available; however, the contract for the project ended in August 2008.Website.
Accessed: March 20, 2013.

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National Institute for Environmental eScience
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