Overview

• The 25-device network in the Nature Discovery Garden captures temperature, humidity, microclimate shifts, pond acoustics, insect wingbeats, bird calls and urban noise in real time.
• All streams flow into the Museum’s AWS-built Data Ecosystem that enables secure storage, processing and rapid sharing of environmental and biodiversity data.
• Historical visual observations dating back to 1995, environmental DNA, and results from community projects—including a recent insect noise study with more than 96,000 participants—are already onboarded.
• The five-acre gardens, reopened in July 2024 after a £25 million transformation, have welcomed about five million visitors as a free public green space.
• NHM and AWS describe the site as scalable for research, education and the NHM150 program, with the gardens set to become one of the most intensively studied urban nature locations of their kind.