The R Virtual Laboratory (R vLab) was presented to the participants of the ECODAR summer school in Mytilene (Lesbos, Greece) which took place during the 11th of July 2015.
The R vLab is a primary component of the LifewatchGreece Infrastructure, which is under development in the context of the LifeWatch ESFRI Project. The audience included students, researchers, academics, environmental managers and policy makers from many countries around the world.
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The R vLab in ECODAR
Post date: Saturday, 18 July, 2015 - 12:37
useR! 2015 in Aalborg, Denmark
Dr. Patkos Theodore and Mr Varsos Constantinos from the LifeWatchGreece team participated in the annual useR! international R User conference conducted in Aalborg during June 30 – July 03 2015. The methodology and infrastructure of the R vlab that was developed within LifeWatchGreece were presented in a multivariate audience, including students, researchers, academics and entrepreneurs from around the world, with different interests, since the conference had a pluralistic thematology. This presentation can be found below.
Post date: Monday, 6 July, 2015 - 12:37
EMODNET WG4 - EUBON Workshop: Mechanisms and guidelines to mobilize legacy biodiversity data
The EMODNET WG4- EUBON Workshop took place during 8-9 June 2015 in HCMR, Heraklion (Gournes, Crete) .
The overall objective of EMODnet WP4 is to fill in the spatial and temporal gaps in EMODnet species occurrence data availability by implementing data archaeology and rescue activities. This is a two-part process of first identifying and locating data and then performing the steps required to merge them into a digital database, which further will be distributed through EurOBIS, and the EMODnet data portal.
Post date: Tuesday, 23 June, 2015 - 10:45
European Maritime Day - Ports and Coasts, gateways to maritime growth
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The European Maritime Day was held at the Athens Concert Hall on 28-29 May 2015 and was focused on Blue Growth. The official opening was on the 28th with welcoming speeches by the Mayor of the city of Piraeus, and the alternate Ministers of Tourism, Ministry of Economy, Infrastructure, Maritime Affairs and Tourism. There were a lot of interesting sessions on coastal communities and Blue Society, risks and opportunities. Many discussions were held regarding the next generation of marine professionals.
Post date: Friday, 12 June, 2015 - 08:52
EGI Conference 2015
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The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) Conference 2015 was held in Lisbon, Portugal between 18-22 May, 2015, and was focused on Engaging the Research Community towards an Open Science Commons. Mrs Emmanouela Panteri from HCMR represented LifeWatchGreece in the EGI Conference 2015 where she presented the LifewatchGreece infrastructure and the Citizen Science projects related to LifewatchGreece.
Presentation 1: From construction to deployment of LifewatchGreece: The potential role of EGI-LW Competence Centre
Post date: Tuesday, 2 June, 2015 - 17:56
11th Greek Symposium of Oceanography and Fisheries
The LifewatchGreece team participated in the 11th Greek Symposium of Oceanography and Fisheries that took place in Lesvos island during 13 -17 May 2015.
The LifewatchGreece scientific coordinator, Dr Christos Arvanitidis, presented the progress and the current achievements of the Reserach Infrastructure. The full presentation can be found here.
Post date: Thursday, 21 May, 2015 - 13:24
The 1st Scratchpads Workshop
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The 1st Scratchpads Workshop for Athens was held on May 11th and 12th at the Department of Biology, University of Athens. It was organized by the Zoological Museum of the University of Athens (ZMUA) and the LifeWatchGreece Infrastructure. Dr Dimitris Koureas was invited from the Natural History Museum in London, UK and under his guidance about 25 attendees of the workshop from Athens, Thessaloniki, Heraklio and even Denmark, utilized the infrastructure and tools of Scratchpads in order to create taxonomic and regional biodiversity sites.
Post date: Wednesday, 20 May, 2015 - 14:44
Conference: Cave environments: present and past
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During the International Scientific Congress “Cave environments: present and past” (25-26 April 2015, Custonaci, Sicily, Italy) Dr. V. Gerovasileiou, post-doc researcher in HCMR and data manager (marine biodiversity data) in LifeWatch Greece, presented “Evaluating marine cave biodiversity in the eastern Mediterranean Sea”.
In his contribution he discussed on the significance of the currently developing biodiversity informatics infrastructures (e.g. LifeWatch) to the publication of georeferenced, taxonomically updated marine biodiversity datasets.
Post date: Tuesday, 19 May, 2015 - 14:40
EMBOS Synthesis Meeting
The EMBOS Synthesis Meeting was successfully held at HCMR-Crete, from 21 to 24 April 2015. This was the second data workshop that took place in HCMR, following the one of December 2014.
Post date: Monday, 18 May, 2015 - 14:38
4th EMBO Workshop on Microbial Sulfur Metabolism
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The 4th EMBO Workshop on Microbial Sulfur Metabolism (http://events.embo.org/15-microbial/) was held in Helsingør (Denmark), from the 12th to the 15th of April 2015. Ms Christina Pavloudi, PhD candidate of the MARES Doctoral Training Programme and Data Manager in LifeWatch Greece (microbial diversity data) participated in the workshop and presented her work on sulfate-reducing bacteria in Mediterranean lagoons, with a comparison between different biogeographic areas.
The poster presentation can be found below.
Post date: Sunday, 17 May, 2015 - 14:37
