WEBINAR: Blue-Cloud Demonstrators - helping translate marine research into innovation for the blue economy

The use of Big Data technologies will pave the way for new solutions. Blue-Cloud is compiling and processing several data resources currently available under different European marine networks, data centers, and research infrastructures, applying big data analysis and machine learning methods in order to obtain FAIR data products (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). However, Blue-Cloud doesn't simply focus on data storage, discovery and access services, but also on developing and providing analytical frameworks with Virtual Labs (VLabs) for setting up and running analytical processes by and for users to support their research.

Blue-Cloud selected five dedicated Demonstrators as Virtual Labs co-designed with top-level marine researchers, to showcase how the Blue-Cloud can shorten the time span between research and innovation in the blue economy field. Each Virtual Lab will provide access to datasets, products, and computations routine exploitable to analyse datasets and (re)generate products. This is at core of the open science that is a pillar of the Blue-Cloud platform. Each demonstrator is developed in close cooperation between the Blue Cloud technical team and with researchers in order to describe the required analytical workflows and to use these for designing the Virtual Labs.

Who should attend

• Blue Data Infrastructures & Research Infrastructures
• Research & Academia Organisations
• Horizontal e-Infrastructures
• Industrial players & Trade Associations
• National Authorities & Policy
• Marine professionals

Main Takeaways

• Understand how Blue-Cloud Demonstrators are making use of already existing data and maximise their potential application thanks to the new Blue-Cloud services;
• How multi-disciplinary data, algorithms, and computing platforms will be federated in the Blue Cloud system;
• Join free of charge and in just 1 hour you’ll have a clear idea of how Blue-Cloud is developing innovative services for marine research & unlocking the innovation potential of the Blue economy.

AGENDA

• 11:00 : Introduction to the Blue-Cloud project - Sara Garavelli  (Trust-IT Services & Blue-Cloud Project Coordinator)
• 11:10 : Zoo- and Phytoplankton EOV products (Demo webpage) - Patricia Martin-Cabrera (VLIZ - Flanders Marine Institute)
• 11:15 : Plankton Genomics (Demo webpage) - Guy Cochrane (European Bioinformatics Institute - EMBL-EBI)
• 11:20 : Marine Environmental Indicators (Demo webpage) - Massimiliano Drudi (CMCC Foundation)
• 11:25 : Fish, a matter of scale (Demo webpage) - Anton Ellenbroek (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
• 11:30 : Aquaculture Monitor (Demo webpage) - Anton Ellenbroek (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
• 11:35 : Questions & Answers

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SPEAKERS

Guy Crochane (Elixir-ENA) is the head of the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) and he contributes editorial work to a number of journals and meetings and has been involved in standardisation activities in many areas of bioinformatics. He received his PhD in cancer cell and molecular biology from the University of East Anglia in 1999 and carried out post-doctoral work in the molecular biology of photoreception at Cambridge University prior to joining EMBL-EBI.

Massimiliano Drudi (CMCC) is Senior Research Associate at CMCC Foundation. He is responsible of the Physical Component in the Copernicus Marine Service for the Mediterranean Sea, and Project Manager for CMCC of Blue-Cloud project.

Anton Ellenbroek (FAO) Anton Ellenbroek works in the fisheries department of FAO of the UN to assist the development of affordable data services in support to the sustainable management of marine living resources, especially through the iMarine initiative. This initiative manages already some 10 VREs that all have dedicated services using the D4Science data infrastructure. As coordinator for 2 demonstrators in Blue Cloud, "Fish, a matter of scales" and the "Aquaculture monitor" he intends to improve the understanding in countries of fisheries and aquaculture in a wider ecosystem context for monitoring and planning purposes.