Publications

Here you can find a list of articles, reports, and other relevant publications produced within Blue-Cloud, as well as press clippings related to our activities and outputs.

The complete set of open access publications, deliverables and reports can be accessed from the Blue-Cloud Catalogue or Zenodo. For lessons, guides, and all Training Academy materials, check the dedicated section. 

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Blue-Cloud 2026 - D5.4 Blue Cloud VRE Common Services 2nd Release

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Assante, Massimiliano; Candela, Leonardo; Dalla Torre, Gianni; Dell'Amico, Andrea; Fernandez, Enol; Frosini, Luca; Lettere, Marco; Mangiacrapa, Francesco; Molinaro, Elisa; Mugnaini, Mauro; Oliviero, Alfredo; Pagano, Pasquale; Panichi, Giancarlo; Peccerillo, Biagio; Piccioli, Tommaso
This deliverable documents the design principles and software architecture characterising the release and development of the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment (VRE) common services, namely the analytics computing framework, the catalogue framework, the storage framework and the enabling fr... Read more
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Blue-Cloud 2026 - D7.3 Joint Exploitation Plan

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Vera, Julia
This document delivers the Blue-Cloud 2026 Joint Exploitation Plan. It outlines the exploitation strategy, objectives and measures that will be deployed to support the long-term exploitation of the results stemming from the HE Blue-Cloud 2026 project, jointly by Consortium Partners.... Read more
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Applying Open Science principles to make a better use of IOTC data

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Barde, Julien; Grasset, Bastien; CHASSOT, Emmanuel; Bonhommeau, Sylvain; Blondel, Emmanuel

In this paper, we further discuss known issues, achievements and challenges to improve IOTC resources management and we attempt to identify opportunities brought by Open Science principles to face them.

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Following the tuna trail: Contrasting global catch estimates from FAO and RFMOs

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grasset, bastien; Barde, Julien; CHASSOT, Emmanuel; Fiorellato, Fabio; Geehan, James

This study compares annual catch statistics from the Global Tuna Atlas (GTA) and FAO FishStat (FS) marine capture datasets, with a focus on tuna and tuna-like species.

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Global monthly catches from tuna surface fisheries by 1° grid (1958-2023) (FIRMS level 0)

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FIRMS Global Tuna Atlas Technical Working Group

We compiled a comprehensive dataset of geo-referenced catches from global tuna fisheries that use fishing gears set at the water's surface.

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1257 downloads

Global monthly catches from tuna fisheries by 1° and 5° grids (1950-2023) (FIRMS level 0)

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FIRMS Global Tuna Atlas Technical Working Group
We compiled a comprehensive dataset of geo-referenced catches from global tuna fisheries available at a spatial resolution of 1° and 5° grid areas.... Read more
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2301 downloads

Global monthly catches from tuna fisheries by 5° grid (1950-2023) (FIRMS level 0)

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FIRMS Global Tuna Atlas Technical Working Group
We compiled a comprehensive dataset of geo-referenced catches from global tuna fisheries available on a spatial resolution of 5° grid areas. This dataset was created by harmonizing public domain data from the five tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (t-RFMOs) for the period 1950-2023.... Read more
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Blue-Cloud 2026 Third Federation Workshop

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Pittonet Gaiarin, Sara; Meijer, Jan; Wyns, Roxanne; Reyes Suarez, Nydia Catalina; Palermo, Francesco; SIMONCELLI, Simona; Nascimento Vitorino, João; Mieruch, Sebastian; Barde, Julien; Pagano, Pasquale; Assante, Massimiliano; Kooyman, Robin; Tedds, Jonathan; PESANT, Stéphane; Wichorowski, Marcin; Rizzo, Alessandro; BODERE, Erwan; Delaney, Conor; Tonani, Marina; Vera, Julia; Fooks, Samuel; Costa, Valentina; Irisson, Jean-Olivier; Vernet, Marine; Dechenne, Abel; Eparkhina, Dina; Caccavale, Mauro; Sarretta, Alessandro; Janssens, Laurence; Sharma, Shreshtha

Blue-Cloud partners and collaborators gathered in Brussels from 5 to 7 November 2025 for a three-day series of strategic and technical sessions, anchored by the Third Federation Workshop.

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Global annual catches from tuna fisheries (1918-2023) (FIRMS level 0)

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FIRMS Global Tuna Atlas Technical Working Group

We constructed the most comprehensive dataset of nominal catches from global tuna fisheries by compiling and harmonizing public domain data from the five tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (t-RFMOs) for the period 1918-2023.

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Global Tuna Atlas : data generation worklow

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FIRMS GTA Technical Working Group; Grasset, Bastien; Barde, Julien; Taconet, Paul; Blondel, Emmanuel
This R worklfow is used to generate the Global Tuna Atlas datasets.... Read more
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