Working Sessions

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This meeting aims to bring together the LifeWatch ERIC scientific communities of scientists and developers to generate and advance the discussion of the most promising lines of scientific development along three key themes: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Theory; Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning [and Services]; Data Analysis, Modelling & Supporting Disruptive Technologies. At the same time, LifeWatch ERIC wants to identify major gaps in scientific knowledge that need to be addressed in the next five to ten years, with particular emphasis on the key societal challenges that biodiversity and ecosystem science are required to address, and proposing nature-based approaches to natural resource managers and decision makers.

Monday 27 May, 2019

 

Data Modelling and Supporting Disruptive Technologies

Chairs: Antonio José Saenz Albanes, Francisco Sánchez Cano & Nicola Fiore, LW ERIC, Nikos Minadakis LW-GR, Monica Santamaria LW-ITA, Antonio Torralba & Domingo Alcaraz-Segura LW-ES, Zhiming Zhao, LW-NL

Monica Santamaria & Bachir Balech | Management of biomolecular data and their analysis.

Zhiming Zhao | Interoperable data management and services for environmental research infrastructures. Download PDF

Marco Antonio Tangaro | Laniakea: a Galaxy on-demand platform for data analysis in life science. Download PDF

Maxime Sweetlove | The microbial Antarctic Resource System (mARS): preserving and archiving microbial datasets. Download PDF

Axel Bourdouxhe | Modelling potential distribution of vegetation communities in Wallonia (Southern Belgium). Download PDF

Silvio Marta | Changes in functional and taxonomic diversity under climate and land-use changes – a 170 year perspective. Download PDF

Georg Umgiesser | Modelling River-Sea Systems: The Po Delta case. Download PDF

José Joaquín Hernández Brito | LifeWatch contribution to the Atlantic Strategy.

Stefano Martellos | Dataset publication: opportunities and issues.

Paul Frémont | Genomic investigation of climate change induced reshuffling of global plankton biogeography.

 

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Theory

Chairs: Paolo Colangelo LW-ITA, Pablo Gonzalez Moreno LW-ES

Cristian Di Stefano | Italian national network on biodiversity: cooperation and integrations with LifeWatch infrastructure. Download PDF

Julien Radoux | Mapping ecotopes and ecopatches as building blocks of biotopes and habitats models. Download PDF

Alessandro Chiarucci | Plant data @LW-ITA. Download PDF
 

Tuesday 28 May, 2019

 

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Theory

Chairs: Paolo Colangelo LW-ITA, Pablo Gonzalez Moreno LW-ES

Paolo Colangelo | The LifeWatch alien species showcase: from workflows to the virtual research environment. Download PDF

Pablo González-Moreno
| Tackling invasive alien species with data: evidence-based models to inform policy and management.

 

Luisa Giari | Hidden biodiversity: an insight into parasite communities of eels from lagoons. Download PDF

Julien Radoux | Freshwater and terrestrial VRE: achievements and work to be done. Download PDF

 

Data Modelling and Supporting Disruptive Technologies

Chairs: Antonio José Saenz Albanes, Francisco Sánchez Cano & Nicola Fiore, LW ERIC, Nikos Minadakis LW-GR, Monica Santamaria LW-ITA, Antonio Torralba & Domingo Alcaraz-Segura LW-ES, Zhiming Zhao, LW-NL

Domingo Alcaraz-Segura | Remote Sensing & Artificial Intelligence. Download PDF

Domingo Alcaraz-Segura | Satellite Remote Sensing to monitor Ecosystem Function EBVs. Download PDF

Antonio Torralba | Embedded wireless sensing.

Francisco Sánchez Cano | Embedded wireless sensing in the Sierra Nevada. Download PDF

 

Data Modelling & Supporting Disruptive Technologies

Chairs: Antonio José Sáenz Albanés, Francisco Sánchez Cano & Nicola Fiore LW ERIC, Nikos Minadakis LW-GR, Monica Santamaria LW-ITA, Antonio Torralba & Domingo Alcaraz LW-ES, Zhiming Zhao, LW-NL

Nicola Fiore & Nikos Minadakis | Semantic Vision in LifeWatch ERIC. Download PDF

Nicola Fiore | EcoPortal. Download PDF

Antonio José Sáenz Albanés | Engage the Deployment Process. Download PDF

 

Marine Biodiversity & Ecosystem Functioning

Chairs: Leen Vandepitte LW-BE, Ilaria Rosati & Elena Stanca LW-ITA, Kalliope Pagou LW-GR, Andrea Ramšak LW-SL

Leen Vandepitte | LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone: what is it, how is it built, which activities are there, who/what is involved. Download PDF

Stefanie Dekeyzer | Traits information in the Taxonomic Backbone and demonstration on the marine VRE and the available LifeWatch services. Download PDF

Vasilis Gerovasileiou | LifeWatch Greece e-services and vLabs. Download PDF

Bruno Hay Mele | Rewiring and indirect effects underpin modularity reshuffling in a marine food web under environmental shifts. Download PDF

Mattia Lanzoni | Marine and resident fish movements in a North Adriatic brackish lagoon.

Domenico D’Alelio | A pilot-project for the NEREA ‘augmented’ marine observatory in the Gulf of Naples (Italy).

 

Wednesday 29 May, 2019

 

Marine Biodiversity & Ecosystem Functioning

Chairs: Leen Vandepitte LW-BE, Ilaria Rosati & Elena Stanca LW-ITA, Calliope Pagou LW-GR, Andrea Ramšak LW-SL

Andreja Ramšak | Environmental Observatories as data providers: the contribution of Slovenian marine station to LifeWatch ERIC. Download PDF

Elena Stanca & Ilaria Rosati | VRE: the case study of Phytoplankton. Download PDF

Kalliopi Pagou & Elena Stanca | A catalogue of indicators/indices for MSFD and future developments. Download PDF

Maria Rosaria Vadrucci | Phytonumbers: a toolkit to support the determination of phytoplankton numerical abundance by Utermöhl method. Download PDF

Bruno Cataletto | Exploring and preserving the phytoplankton diversity: some examples from a long-term ecological research coastal station in the Adriatic Sea. Download PDF

Luigi Caputi | Plankton and nutrients in the global ocean: insights from an Oceanomics approach. Download PDF

S. Reizopoulou, N. Simboura, & K. Pagou | WFD and MSFD implementation in Greece: The benthic quality assessment.

 

Data Modelling and Supporting Disruptive Technologies

Chairs: Antonio José Saenz Albanes, Francisco Sánchez Cano & Nicola Fiore, LW ERIC, Nikos Minadakis LW-GR, Monica Santamaria LW-ITA, Antonio Torralba & Domingo Alcaraz-Segura LW-ES, Zhiming Zhao, LW-NL

Nicola Fiore & Juan Miguel González-Aranda | Wrap Up Session

Bulgaria

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.

Spain

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.

Slovenia

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.

Portugal

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.

Netherlands

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.

Italy

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.

Greece

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.

Belgium

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.