LifeWatch marine thematic technical workshop

A LifeWatch technical scientific workshop was successfully held between 3-5 June 2014 at the premises of the Hellenic Center for Marine Research in Crete (HCMR Crete). It was targeted to the development of a Marine Virtual Research Environment (VRE) in the framework of LifeWatch ESFRI. More than 30 participants, representing 7 countries and 14 institutes (see details here) convened to present their latest LifeWatch-relevant developments, discuss next steps and explore further collaborations. Consistent to HCMR's focus on the marine type of environments, emphasis was given in connecting the marine data systems and workflows through existing technologies and developments. In addition, LifeWatch related projects such as MicroB3, BioVel, MarineTLO, Polytraits, SOCIB, were also presented. The summary report for the Lifewatch technical workshop at Crete is available here.

Relevant link: http://www.microb3.eu/news/lifewatch-marine-technical-meeting

lifewatch technical meeting

lifewatch technical meeting

The agenda of the workshop is available here.

  Title (Author Name) Link
1. Dataservices LifeWatch (Filip Waumans)
2. LifeWatch R Workpackage (Theodore Patkos)
3. Lifewatch ICT core facilities and their potential for marine use case (Fernando Aguilar GΓ³mez)
4. BioVeL - System overview (Saverio Vicario)
5. Collaborative scientific platforms for accessing, processing and validation of observation and biosensor data (Francisco Hernandez)
6. LifeWatch Computational Services (Alex Hardisty)
7. LifeWatch (Klaas Deneudt)
8. LifeWatch Marine Thematic (Nikos Minadakis)
9. LifeWatch Service Centre (Nicola Fiore, Elena Stanca)
10. Micro B3 Information System & BioVeL - Resources, Services, Workflows & Interfaces (Renzo Kottmann)
11. Polytraits - A database on biological traits of polychaetes (Sarah Faulwetter)
12. Sharing data for conservation (Salud Deudero)
13. Strategy for Future Marine Operational Systems in the SES (JoaquΓ­n TintorΓ©)
14. Swedish LifeWatch portal & citizen science system (Oskar Kindvall)
15. The Antarctic Biodiversity Portal contributions to a marine virtual lab (Anton Van de Putte)
16. The Nordic Microalgae Information System (Bengt Karlson)
17. VLIZ - BioVeL DRW (Lennert Tyberghein)
18. What is SOCIB? (Charles Troupin)