Blue-Cloud Interviews

• Read more about Ecosystem-level EOVs Workbench - Interview with Meike Vogt (ETH Zurich)

The Ecosystem-level EOVs Workbench will improve the availability, quality and interoperability of large collections of plankton observations based on traditional counts, quantitative imaging and genomic methods available from the EMODnet/EurOBIS and ELIXIR data infrastructures.

Meike Vogt, from ETH Zurich, leads the development of this Blue-Cloud 2026 workbench. The interview was conducted in November, during the Blue-Cloud 2026 General Assembly (Rome, Italy)

• Read more about Interview with Marco Filippone (Fugro) - Blue-Cloud 2026 ESEB Member

How Marco Filippone, a member of Blue-Cloud 2026 ESEB, aims to contribute to Blue-Cloud 2026? Watch the interview done during the Blue-Cloud 2026 General Assembly in Movember 2023 (Rome, Italy).

• Read more about The Blue-Cloud Training Academy for FAIR data - Deniz Karaca, EuroGOOS

Unlock the potential of Open Science and FAIR data principles for marine research.

Discover how to harness the power of our platform and embrace Open Science practices in the ocean science domain. Additionally, we host dedicated meetings to foster the uptake of Open Science practices and FAIR data principles, ensuring that you stay at the forefront of innovative research methodologies. Join us on this educational journey to unlock the full potential of Open Science in marine research with the Blue-Cloud Training Academy.

• Read more about Why is Blue-Cloud relevant to the ocean observation community? - Toste Tanhua (GEOMAR)

While the consortium of the Horizon Europe project Blue-Cloud 2026 already possesses the necessary skills to execute its work plan, it is also supported by an External Stakeholders Expert Board (ESEB) for high level guidance on strategy and policy and leverage of their relevant cross-sectoral networks.

In particular, ESEB Members:

- Provide ad-hoc, independent, competent and timely feedback to the strategy and operations of the Blue-Cloud initiative and its demonstrators (especially assessing impact and user experience);

• Read more about Making data and code open with the Global Fisheries Atlas - Julien Barde (IRD)

The Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries (GRSF) and the Fisheries Atlas (FA) VLabs developed in the Horizon 2020 project Blue-Cloud are already operational. GRSF is a knowledge management VLab dealing with best practices by implementing Semantic Web technologies. FA is a spatial data management VLab, complying with OGC standards to manage syntactic interoperability. The VLabs will be extended to capture fisheries data and environmental parameters on a global scale.

• Read more about Measuring carbon-plankton dynamics by combining data types - Patricia Cabrera (VLIZ)

The NPZD (Nutrient-Phytoplankton-Zooplankton-Detritus) Virtual Lab was developed in the pilot Blue-Cloud project based on near real-time data of phyto- & zoo-plankton abundances and environmental parameters and tested and validated for the southern part of the North Sea. The current version of the model does accurately predict phyto- & zoo-plankton biomass based on the abiotic conditions provided.

Phytoplankton (as Chl-a) in the NPZD model runs in nitrogen units. However, this model does not integrate any different data than the ones used to predict NPZD biomass.

• Read more about Enhancing and expanding the Marine Environmental Indicators VLab - Francesco Palermo (CMCC)

This Blue-Cloud 2026 Virtual Lab will allow users to monitor and assess the environmental status of marine areas and support the decision-making process for the ocean management. Multiple data sources will be exploited in a unique data analysis service, which will allow the online computation of indicators.

• Read more about Exploring and harmonising data on coastal currents from observations - Patricia Cabrera (VLIZ)

At present, different current measurements are not integrated in common data streams. The spatial and temporal coverage of such datasets are quite varied. New current data products based on those measurements need to be generated to improve the coverage and accuracy of the combined datasets.

• Read more about Integration of coastal ocean observations along Europe - João Vitorino (Instituto Hidrográfico)

Many types of ocean data are available from a variety of sources, but they are not all coordinated or interoperable. Integration of diverse datasets needs to be addressed and demonstrated to facilitate the creation of an effective knowledge base for applications and policy decisions.

• Read more about Essential Ocean Variables Workbenches - Dominique Obaton (IFREMER)

A number of data-intensive Workbenches for selected Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) are being developed and validated in Blue-Cloud 2026 (https://blue-cloud.org/). Data scientists will implement automatic and efficient workflows that allow them to derive data added value products, exploiting the blue analytical services available in the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment.