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Enhancing Biodiversity Research through Distributed Infrastructure: LifeWatch and Global Collaboration

The complexity of biodiversity systems requires more than simple analyses of components. LifeWatch serves as a distributed research infrastructure that supports large-scale data generation and analysis. It connects researchers, policymakers, and the public through a single portal, offering tools for data capture, integration, and modeling. With initiatives in place for collaboration and innovation, such as GEOSS and GEO-BON, LifeWatch addresses pressing issues like climate change, biodiversity loss, and land-use change. This infrastructure fosters a sustainable scientific community, enhancing our understanding of ecosystem dynamics.

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Enhancing Biodiversity Research through Distributed Infrastructure: LifeWatch and Global Collaboration

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  1. Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Wouter Los Acting Director

  2. ESFRI Projects for Environmental Sciences IAGOS-ERI EURO-ARGO SIOS Current status EUFAR-COPAL AURORA BOREALIS LIFEWATCH EISCAT-3D EPOS EMSO ICOS

  3. Experimentation on a few parameters is not enough: Limitations to scaling up results for understanding system properties The biodiversity system is complex and cannot be described by the simple sum of its components and relations LifeWatch supports the generation and analysis of large-scale data-sets. Find patterns and learn processes.

  4. Climate change Biodiversity loss Land-use change Water quality Desertification Population pressure

  5. This defines an infrastructure with • distributed observatories/sensors, • interoperable databases, • computational capability, • and computational capacity. • A single portal for researchers, • policy makers, industries and public at large • Find data and model to analyse statistical relationships • Accelerate data capture with new technologies • Structure the scientific community • with new opportunities for large-scale projects

  6. Architecture Collaboration in virtual labs Users Work flow generator E-Infrastructure Integration and Computation Composition Data software Distributed computing power Resources

  7. LifeWatch: a distributed research infrastructure GEOSS (GEO BON)

  8. Connections with other facilities a few examples

  9. Current status • Preparatory project was running from 2008 – January 2011 • Construction of the infrastructure is starting now • Initial start-up funding from 5 countries • More are following, also with national (distributed) facilities • Three countries lead the central and common facilities

  10. Users Netherlands E-Infrastructure Italy Composition Spain (+ statutory seat) Resources

  11. What LifeWatch can offer GEOSS • Virtual environments for • data storage • data integration • data analysis • modeling • Personalized virtual labs for individual projects and services • Sustainable infrastructure, supported by national governments and other stakeholders • Partnership in innovation (Semantic interoperability, DNA-based sensors, etc) LifeWatch and related major ecosystem research infrastructures in other continents are starting to collaborate in a new EU project to promote cooperation and global interoperability in support of GEOSS - GEO BON .

  12. Thank you for your attention

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