Marine Domain
09.30 – 10.00 | 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
10.00 – 11.30 | 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
11.45 – 13.15 | 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.
14.30 – 16.00 | 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
16.15 – 17.45 | 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.
17.45 – 18.00 | Wrap up Day One.
Terrestrial and freshwater domain
09.00 – 10.30 | 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 10.30 – 12.00 | 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Hands-on Session
09:30 – 09:40: Welcome and introduction
09:40 – 11:00: LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue – how to create and publish metadata records
11:00 – 12:30: LifeWatch ERIC Tesseract – the Crustaceans workflow