Starting in March 2022, LifeWatch ERIC will broadcast a regular series of podcasts on the Internal Joint Initiative, open conversations with key personnel within the infrastructure, the scientists behind the validation cases, and other Research Institutes who have benefited from our Tesseract technologies in their own investigation of biodiversity and ecosystems in Europe. The first season introduces LifeWatch ERIC, Non-indigenous Invasive Species and the Virtual Research Environment. Season two features interviews with key personnel behind the validation cases. Season three moves a little outside the LifeWatch ERIC infrastructure itself into the broader world of Open Science, Invasive Alien Species and practical applications of the LifeWatch ERIC VRE. The fourth season addresses the world of Environmental Research Infrastructures, established by the European Commission to provide resources and services that enable research communities to conduct research more effectively and to foster innovation. The infrastructures featured in the interviews collaborate closely with LifeWatch ERIC and are all active participants in developing FAIR data platforms to advance European Open Science.
The latest podcast series is focused on biodiversity.
You can also listen to the podcasts on the following platforms:
Science, like music, has a language all its own, that can appear difficult understand to the uninitiated. Because the development of the new Virtual Research Environment capable of reporting environmental issues on a global scale is actually of relevance to everyone on the planet, LifeWatch ERIC is breaking new ground in publishing a magazine, called “Alien Alert!”, to appeal to more general audiences.
In non-scientific terms, “Alien Alert!” presents the history of the LifeWatch ERIC Internal Joint Initiative in narrative form: how five research cases into habitats affected by Non-indigenous and Invasive Species have validated a more powerful and comprehensive cloud-based virtual laboratory than was ever available previously. We hope this informal approach makes the serious business of safeguarding biodiversity more accessible.
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To download the magazine, click on the three little dots.
It’s not easy to see into the future. Sometimes it takes a special ability, sometimes an unusual machine, to interpret the present and project a picture of what might be, or what will be. And creating that future can mean drawing on traditions that didn’t usually work together, to make surprising new combinations.
That is precisely what the Internal Joint Initiative (IJI) does. LifeWatch ERIC brought together cross-disciplinary teams – of informaticians, genetic ecologists, software designers, biodiversity researchers, data managers and modellers – to create a new visionary Virtual Research Environment.
In this collection of videos on the IJI, members and collaborators of LifeWatch ERIC explain the rationale behind the Initiative and present the work done over the last two years and that continues into the future.
