Section outline

  • e-Science for NIS Research Workshop

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  • Day 1: Marine Domain - Part 1

    Welcome to the LifeWatch ERIC Internal Joint Initiative
    • Alberto Basset – Service Centre Director
    • Juan Miguel González-Aranda – Chief Technology Officer/ICT Core Director
    • Christos Arvanitidis – Chief Executive Officer
    Round Table 1: Cooperation between Research Infrastructures in the marine domain in the framework of NIS threats and challenges jointly organised with ENVRI-FAIR

    Chairperson: Alberto Basset – Service Centre Director

    • Andreas Petzold – IAGOS AISBL, Forschungszentrum Juelich
    • Juan José Dañobeitia – EMSO ERIC
    • Wiebe Kooistra – SZN
    • Christos Arvanitidis – Chief Executive Officer
    Session 1: Long term monitoring of hard-bottom marine communities (IJI Validation Case #2)

    Chairperson: Matthias Obst – University of Gothenburg

    • Presentation of scientific (Katrina Exter – VLIZ Marine Observation Centre) and technological (Antonio José Sáenz-Albanés – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core) results of the ARMS workflow: photographic and genetic data from Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) to track NIS colonisation of European waters and monitor long-term changes of marine hard-bottom communities.
    • General discussion with relevant contributions from international initiatives/projects, including Dimitra Mavraki – HCMR, LifeWatch Greece.

  • Day 1: Marine Domain - Part 2

    Round Table 2: Impact of NIS on marine ecosystems, jointly organised with ENVRI-FAIR

    Chairpersons: Klaas Deneudt – VLIZ Marine Observation Centre & Sergej Olenin – Klaipeda University

    • Klaas Deneudt – VLIZ Marine Observation Centre
    • Sergej Olenin – Klaipeda University
    • Matthias Obst – University of Gothenburg
    • Christos Arvanitidis – Chief Executive Officer
    Session 2: Understanding marine/transitional NIS occurrence and trophic niches dynamics (IJI Validation Case #4)

    Chairperson: Salvatrice Vizzini – University of Palermo
    Rapporteur: Elisa Morón López – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core

    • Presentation of scientific (Giorgio Mancinelli – University of Salento) and technological (Antoni Huguet-Vives – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core) results of the Crustaceans workflow: occurrence and stable isotope data to monitor trophic position of invasive crustaceans in marine and freshwater ecosystems and trophic changes within invaded food webs.
    • General discussion with relevant contributions from international initiatives/projects, including Paraskevi Karachle – HCMR.

  • Day 2: Terrestrial and Freshwater Domain - Part 1

    Round Table 3: Ecological, economic and social impact of NIS: contributions from advanced research

    Chairperson: Montserrat Vilà – CSIC, LifeWatch Spain
    Rapporteur: Alberto Basset, LifeWatch ERIC

    • Ana Cristina Cardoso – European Commission | JRC
    • Mike Elliott – University of Hull
    • Montserrat Vilà – CSIC, LifeWatch Spain
    • Pablo González-Moreno – University of Cordoba, LifeWatch Spain
    • José Manuel Avila Castuera – LifeWatch ICT Core
    Session 3: Mapping the invasion: detection and monitoring through remote sensing (IJI Validation Case #1)

    Chairperson: Julien Radoux – UCLouvain

    • Presentation of scientific (Cristina Tarantino & Angela Martiradonna – Italian National Research Council) and technological (Ismael Navas – University of Málaga) results of the Ailanthus workflow: occurrence information of the invasive plant A. altissima using satellite data. This workflow model is a robust tool that can be adapted to the study of different geographical areas and plant species.
    • General discussion with relevant contributions from international initiatives/projects.
    Publisher Round Table 4: How Open Science and Open Access Data benefit researchers

    Chairpersons: Alberto Basset – Service Centre Director & Arturo Ariño Plana – University of Navarra, LifeWatch Spain

    • Lyubomir Penev & Vincent Smith – Biodiversity Data Journal
    • Andrew Townsend Peterson – Biodiversity Informatics
    • Stelios Katsanevakis – BioInvasions Records
    • Quentin Groom – Meise Botanic Garden
    • Arturo Ariño Plana – University of Navarra, LifeWatch Spain

  • Day 2: Terrestrial and Freshwater Domain - Part 2

    Round Table 5: IJI e-services and disruptive technologies for NIS research

    Chairpersons: Juan Miguel González-Aranda – Chief Technology Officer/ICT Core Director & Wim Jansen – European Commission

    • Joris Timmermans – LifeWatch ERIC VLIC: Scientific development for Essential Biodiversity Variables workflows
    • Ilaria Rosati – Italian National Research Council, LifeWatch Italy & Nicola Fiore – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Team: Semantics and Ontologies-related technologies
    • Isabel Campos Plasencia – LifeWatch ERIC STAB: HPC and Cloud-related technologies
    • José F. Aldana Montes – University of Málaga, LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core: Big Data Analytics and Workflows composition
    • Lucia Vaira – LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre & Antoni Huguet-Vives – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core: Towards new user-friendly interfaces
    • Antonio-José Sáenz-Albanés – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core: Integration within LifeWatchERIC Tesseract VRE
    • Siham Tabik – ICT Core UGR: AI Deep Learning
    Session 4: eDNA metabarcoding as a tool for early detection of nonindigenous freshwater species (IJI Validation Case #5)

    Chairperson: Christos Arvanitidis – Chief Executive Officer

    • Presentation of scientific (Ana Filipa Filipe – CIBIO-InBIO) and technological (José F. Aldana Montes – University of Málaga, LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core) results of the Metabarcording workflow: collecting eDNA data of freshwater fish to update national NIS databases.
    • General discussion with relevant contributions from international initiatives/projects, including Mirjam Boonstra – Life Mica.
    Session 5: Habitat vulnerability to NIS and impact on biotopes (IJI Validation Case #3)

    Chairperson: Alberto Basset – Service Centre Director

    • Presentation of scientific (Julien Radoux – UCLouvain & Heliana Teixeira – University of Aveiro) and technological (Jesús Gallardo & Nikos Minadakis – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core) results of the Biotope vulnerability workflow: ecosystem and habitat vulnerability mapping at national and continental scale to infer the relevance of key risk factors and intrinsic resistance/resilience components. This workflow is suitable for all types of aquatic (freshwater and marine) and terrestrial ecosystems.
    • General discussion with relevant contributions from international initiatives/projects.
    Final remarks
    • Juan Miguel González-Aranda – Chief Technology Officer/ICT Core Director
    • Alberto Basset – Service Centre Director
    • Peter H. Van Tienderen – VLIC Director

  • Day 3: Hands-on Session

    Session Programme
    • Welcome and introduction
    • LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue – how to create and publish metadata records
    • LifeWatch ERIC Tesseract – the Crustaceans workflow

  • Additional Resources