In this section, you can find the recordings of all the past Blue-Cloud webinars, as well as links to the specific pages for more details about the agenda, slides, and speakers.

April 23, 2021

Plankton genomics: Multidisciplinary data mining to assess plankton distributions

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.

April 20, 2021

Blue-Cloud & EuroSea joint workshop at Blue Research & Innovation Days

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.

March 23, 2021

Open Science for the Ocean: Meet the Blue-Cloud Demonstrators

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.

February 12, 2021

Zoo & Phytoplankton EOV Products: Big data and machine learning methods to enhance biodiversity data

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.

December 04, 2020

Marine Environmental Indicators: Multi-source datasets for researchers and policymakers

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.

October 14, 2020

Fish, a matter of scales: Digital tools for fisheries data management

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.

September 25, 2020

Aquaculture Monitor: Enhancing data-driven solutions for fish farming policies and management

The Aquaculture Monitor demonstrator will expand the remote sensing analytic capabilities of the existing Aquaculture Atlas Production System (AAPS) Virtual Lab in order to provide a robust and replicable environment for monitoring aquaculture in marine cages and in coastal areas.

June 19, 2020

Blue-Cloud demonstrators: helping translate marine research into innovation for the blue economy

We selected five real-life demonstrators as Virtual Research Environments co-designed with top-level marine researchers, to showcase how the Blue-Cloud framework can shorten the time span between research and innovation in the blue economy field. Get to know all the five demonstrators.