The online workshop "Open Science for the Ocean: Meet the Blue-Cloud demonstrators" welcomed more than 140 participants from all over the world, introducing the Blue-Cloud technical framework, the five demonstrators, as well as the Strategic Roadmap to 2030.
The second interview in our series with representatives of Blue-Cloud data infrastructures is with Guy Cochrane from EMBL-EBI. Let's discover how the European Nucleotide Archive is contributing to Blue-Cloud's activities.
The All-Atlantic2021 “All-Atlantic R&I for a Sustainable Ocean: Ministerial High-Level & Stakeholders Conference” launched a survey to identify and characterize stakeholders interested in promoting marine Research and Innovation (R&I) at the All-Atlantic level and, therefore, strengthen the All-Atlantic Marine Research & Innovation Community.
The NEANIAS project has launched its first Open Call to reward researchers in the Atmosphere and Underwater & Space Science EOSC environments. Learn more and apply now, deadline on 9 April 2021.
In case you missed it, here you can find the most interesting questions and answers from the webinar introducing the Blue-Cloud demonstrator "Zoo & Phytoplankton EOV Products", with experts from VLIZ, ULiège, and LOV.
Let's discover the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environments, a core part of the Blue-Cloud technical framework, providing computing platforms and analytical services facilitating the collaboration between researchers.
The United Nations officially launched the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in January 2021, let's see how Blue-Cloud can interact with this fundamental framework.
The first interview with a representative of data infrastructures involved in Blue-Cloud saw Jean-Olivier Irisson from Sorbonne Université offer an overview of the fascinating world of EcoTaxa, a web application dedicated to the visual exploration and the taxonomic annotation of images showcasing planktonic biodiversity.
The Wildlife Tracker for Oceans has developed a marine conservation application exploiting data from the Blue-Cloud VLab Zoo & Phytoplankton EOV products. On 26 July the team held a webinar to show how this app was successfully implemented for the Galapagos Whale Shark Project.
Blue-Cloud was mentioned in the list of repositories for ocean microbiome datasets in a recent article published on Nature Microbiology, produced by experts from Tara Ocean Foundation, Tara Oceans, EMBL and EMBRC-ERIC.
The Blue-Cloud Data Discovery & Access Service was featured in the EMODnet Annual Report 2021 as one of the most relevant EU infrastructures for Open Science. Try it out now!
A joint hybrid workshop at EMD 2022 organised by the H2020 projects EuroSea and Blue-Cloud and the EC marine data service EMODnet showcased success stories and use cases from the European (and Atlantic) marine data landscape, and charted the way forward for closer collaboration on ocean observation and marine data in the context of the EU Green Deal.
The public consultation towards the Blue-Cloud Strategic Roadmap to 2030 has reached an important milestone: contributions have been gathered from nearly 100 stakeholders to shape policy recommendations for evolving Blue-Cloud as a thematic, cloud-based Open Science ecosystem for marine research into the future.
The EU-funded H2020 project Blue-Cloud contributed to advancing the interoperability of fisheries data. The FAO FIRMS Global Tuna Atlas will support and improve fisheries management across the globe.