Background
The workflow on “Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)” is conceived to produce data files that can then be used to indirectly answer a large spectrum of ecological questions related to the monitoring of hard bottom communities of near coast environments, e.g., highlighting changes and trends in community composition. This workflow operates as a data chaining pipeline that uses data collected by a network of ARMS placed in the vicinity of marine stations and Long-term Ecological Research sites (LTER) to produce community data files that can be subsequently analysed elsewhere (e.g., in R) to check whether species detected in the samples are alien to the location.
Learning Objectives
It is expected that, by the end of the course, participants will be better positioned to:
1. Examine the technical requirements of the workflow’s services;
2. Process the services included in the workflow;
3. Run the workflow successfully;
4. Identify and troubleshoot problems that may arise while running the workflow.
Contents and Structure
In this training the user will be guided through the use of the workflow steps and ICT services developed in the Tesseract Virtual Research Environment (VRE) of LifeWatch ERIC.
Contents:
1. Access and navigate the Tesseract VRE.
2. Step-by-step demonstration on how to run the workflow services (video resource);
3. Technical requirements of each service/step (PDF doc);
4. Link to additional information on the validation case, including an open knowledge map;
5. Scientific presentation of the case study (video resource);
Target Audience
This training is aimed at early career researchers and anyone interested in learning how to run the “Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)” workflow.