Biodiversity

Zoo and Phytoplankton EOV products

Processing several data resources available under different European marine networks to produce unique zoo and phytoplankton EOV products.

Genomics

Plankton Genomics

Enabling scientific exploration of plankton, including its distributions, dynamics and fine-grained diversity to molecular resolution, through genomics analysis.

 
 
 
Environment

Marine Environmental Indicators

Developing an online service to provide and display indicators and information on the environmental quality of the ocean.

Fishery

Fish, a matter of scales

Improving data management and analytic capabilities for fisheries by expanding the Virtual Lab for the Fisheries Atlas and the Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries.

Aquaculture

Aquaculture Monitor

Delivering a tool to produce national aquaculture sector overviews for monitoring aquaculture in marine cages and in coastal areas.

Blue-Cloud demonstrators are developed making use of existing services, driving the further development of additional, Blue-Cloud services. The Blue-Cloud demonstrators have been selected as applications that are specific for oceans and seas and are necessary for marine ecosystems research, conservation, forecasting & innovation in the Blue Economy. In particular, the demonstrators have been formulated taking into account the following requirements:

  • Address one or several of the policy challenges defined in the Bioeconomy Strategy, the Circular Economy Strategy, the European Open Science Cloud Initiative, the Blue Growth Strategy, the Common Fisheries Policy, the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the International Ocean Governance Communication and the UN SDGs;
  • Integrate the Essential Ocean Variables, notably the biological variables, including plankton biomass and diversity;
  • Build on the multi-disciplinary data, algorithms, and computing platforms that will be federated as part of the Blue-Cloud system;
  • Take account of the parallel EOSC thematic initiatives being developed – such FNS-Cloud;
  • Demonstrate how the Blue-Cloud Services developed can showcase its potential in supporting and promoting the blue economy, shortening the time span between research and innovation in frontier fields, such as micro-organisms and genomics-enabled innovations.

Each demonstrator delivers services accessible through a Virtual Lab powered by the Blue-Cloud Platform. Each Virtual Lab provides access to datasets, products, and computations routine exploitable to analyse datasets and (re)generate products. This is at the core of the open science that is a pillar of the Blue-Cloud platform. Each product is made accessible through a Virtual Lab (operational service accessible online) that provides the documentation, examples of use, and the technology to exploit the service. The Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment provides a common dashboard for accessing Virtual Labs to perform collaborative research.

The five Blue-Cloud Demonstrators are developed in close cooperation between the technical team implementing the Blue-Cloud technical infrastructure and with researchers, in order to describe the required analytical workflows and to use these for designing the Virtual Labs.