The TDWG 2014 Annual Conference will take place in Elmia Congress Centre, Jönköping, Sweden, on October 27-31, 2014. The theme of this year is “Applications and Data Standards for Sustaining Biodiversity”. It is of particular interest for the LifeWatch Community the TDWG 2014 Workshop: “Software solutions for data management in biodiversity research projects”.
On 7 and 8 July 2014, the Stakeholders’ board of LifeWatch will meet in Crete at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research premises.
The aim of the meeting is to discuss the progresses made regarding the ERIC application process and advancements made by different components of LifeWatch.
The Bulletin of Land Surface Dynamics highlights unusual events of land surface dynamics and their links with ecology and biodiversity processes, and provides a remarkable example of LifeWatch use of data.
The new issue of mid-2014 has just been published and is available for download here, together with the 2013 Bulletin.
The 21st of June 2014 LifeWatch-ITA to the Ocean Sampling Day (OSD). The chosen sampling site was Naples’ one (identified as OSD4), the long term station of MareChiara, LTER-MC located 2 miles away from Naples, about 75m depth.
In this occasion, it was sample superficial waters, hydrology, organic and inorganic nutrients, POC, spectro-fluometric analysis of the phytoplankton biomass, phytoplankton pigment spectrum, primary production, photosynthetic performance (14C and variable fluorescence), specific composition of phytoplankton and zooplankton.
A LifeWatch marine technical meeting was held in the Hellenic Centre of Marine Research (Crete, Greece) from 3–5 June. The meeting was attended by participants of national LifeWatch projects from Spain, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Belgium and the EU funded projects BIOVEL, MicroB3, VIBRANT and EMODNet.
The Bulgarian National Distributed Centre is represented by the Agricultural University-Plovdiv.
To know more about how Bulgaria contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Spanish National Distributed Centre is supported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Regional Government of Andalusia and the Guadalquivir River Basin Authority (Ministry for Ecological Transition-MITECO). Moreover, Spain is the hosting Member State of LifeWatch ERIC, the location of its Statutory Seat & ICT e-Infrastructure Technical Office (LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities).
To know more about how Spain contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Slovenian National Distributed Centre is led by the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). It focuses on the development of technological solutions in the field of biodiversity and socio-ecosystem research.
To know more about how Slovenia contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Portuguese National Distributed Centre is managed by PORBIOTA, the Portuguese e-Infrastructure for Information and Research on Biodiversity. Led by BIOPOLIS/CIBIO-InBIO – Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, PORBIOTA connects the principal Portuguese research institutions working in biodiversity.
To know more about how Portugal contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Dutch National Distributed Centre is hosted by the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. Moreover, The Netherlands hosts one of the LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities, the Virtual Laboratory and Innovation Centre.
To know more about how The Netherlands contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Italian National Distributed Centre is led and managed by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and is coordinated by a Joint Research Unit, currently comprising 35 members. Moreover, Italy hosts one of the LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities, the Service Centre.
To know more about how Italy contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Greek National Distributed Centre is funded by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology and is coordinated by the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, in conjunction with 47 associated partner institutions.
To know more about how Greece contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Belgian National Distributed Centre makes varied and complementary in-kind contributions to LifeWatch ERIC. These are implemented in the form of long-lasting projects by various research centres and universities distributed throughout the country and supported by each respective political authority.
To know more about how Belgium contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.