The aim of the plankton genomic demonstrator is to showcase a deep assessment of plankton distributions by mining data across biomolecular, imaging and environmental domains. It will draw on the outputs of initiatives such as Tara Oceans and will focus on two notebooks: Species and functions discovery; Biodiversity and ecology.

The Blue Research and Innovation Days presented ongoing cutting-edge projects towards bringing together consortia, the scientific community and industry working at the core of the ‘blue economy’ by promoting synergies as well as shaping common future activities. This workshop provided an overview of the collaboration between EuroSea and Blue-Cloud, presenting the latest developments and highlighting their common objectives and future plans.

This half-day stimulating workshop showcased how the Blue-Cloud project is combining distributed marine data and computing resources with analytical tools to deliver services for marine research, in order to demonstrate the potential of open science in the marine domain.

This demonstrator will compile and process several data resources that are available under different European marine networks, data systems and research infrastructures and apply big data analysis and machine learning (e.g. neural networks) methods to create fit for purpose data products, using an open transparent methodology that runs in the Blue Cloud. Its focus is on biological Essential Ocean Variables (EOV’s) on plankton.

This demonstrator will develop an online service, bringing together into the same framework the data, the computational resources, and the cloud-based technology, in order to support European and international stakeholders within the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, and for exploiting the Blue Economy.

The Fish, a matter of scales demonstrator will improve data management and analytic capabilities for fisheries. The webinar showed new features of the Virtual Lab for the FAO Tuna Atlas and Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries.