LifeWatch: Advancing Biodiversity & Ecosystem Research with EGI
"LifeWatch is an e-science and technology infrastructure promoting biodiversity and ecosystem research. Discover how EGI resources support ecological observatories, virtual labs, and more to address environmental challenges through data, services, and tools."
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EGI-LifeWatch CC Summary Fernando Aguilar IFCA CSIC aguilarf@ifca.unican.es
Introduction LifeWatch is an e-science and technology infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem research to support the scientific community and other users. ERIC from 17thMarch. Its mission is to advance Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research and to provide major contributions to addressing the big environmental challenges (e.g. Climate Change) Knowledge-based solutions to environmental managers for its preservation, by providing access through a pan-European distributed e-Infrastructure to a multitude of sets of data, services and tools enabling the construction and operation of Virtual Research Environments (Virtual Laboratories & Decision-support Applications). Example of relevant case studies: Invasive species Evolution of wetlands Evaluating the ecological quality of habitats Members: Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Greece, etc. LifeWatch CC Summary
Connecting LifeWatch - EGI Service Oriented Approach. Exploiting common e-infrastructures. Cloud- based services. EGI (FedCloud) resources, one of the best options to provide the e- infrastructure layer required. Analysis and processing tools can be deployed and executed. Support, Ecological Observatories, Workflows & Vlabs, Citizen Science. LifeWatch CC Summary
ICT Core Virtual Labs Optional in-kind construction Virtual laboratories for scientific cooperation Select the data, software and computing power for your project Common Facilities Compulsory construction Integrate resources Linking to resources (databases, sensors, software, computing power) Third party contributions Courtesy of Wouter Los
Achievements: Support OpenProject instance running in FedCloud resources. Document Repository Meetings Management Managing Working Groups. Common requirements Expertise groups Exploring Data Management Tools. Data Management Plans Analysis tools Data Repositories LifeWatch CC Summary
Achievements: Support OpenProject instance running in FedCloud resources. Document Repository Meetings Management As well as Wiki page Managing Working Groups. Common requirements Expertise groups Exploring Data Management Tools. Data Management Plans Analysis tools Data Repositories Data Lifecycle LifeWatch CC Summary
Achievements: Ecological Observatories VLIZ (Flanders Marine Institute) Support: Image storage. LifeWatch CC Summary
Achievements: Ecological Observatories Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Spanish Node (GBIF.es). Supporting Biodiversity Data Repository. Web application: managing, querying, etc. Freshwater Reservoir Data Management Modelling: Hydrodynamics, Water Quality. LifeWatch CC Summary
Achievements: Workflows & Vlabs Workflows TRUFA Galaxy (NGI-FR): web portal based on Galaxy for metabarcoding and molecular taxonomy R R Vlab Rserver Rshiny Specific Working Group Jupyter As a general solution for Virtual Labs LifeWatch CC Summary
Achievements: Citizen Science Supporting Citizen Science Initiatives. FedCloud supporting Natusfera: Biodiversity Observation Web portal + App Allows everyone to register observation, creating projects, etc. Image Classification Approach to Orchids classification Convolutional Neural Network. Exploiting EGI GPUs Caffe Portal on FedCloud (BIFI) LifeWatch CC Summary
Lessons Learnt: WG Identifying Common Requirements. Avoiding reinvent the wheel. Groups of experts. WG List: AAI: AARC + AARC2 Citizen Science GeoServer GIS NoSQL R Semantics Storage Workflow LifeWatch CC Summary
Lessons learnt: Cloud Resources Cloud-based approaches fit very well in LifeWatch. Solutions based on web apps. Common requirements can be satisfied using Cloud Computing. Dynamic use (models, analysis) Vs. Long Term running (Web services). Use of GPGPUs is an exception, but some initiatives are addressing exploitation in the cloud. Storage and Data Management Very important requirement Some Cloud-like solutions available. LifeWatch CC Summary
Plans Short Term Support already running services: GBIF.es, VLIZ, Data Management tools, OpenProject Extend Image classification tool: using new architectures, new tools. Combining image classification with Citizen Science apps. Long Term Explore common solutions LifeWatch CC Summary
Thanks for your attention Fernando Aguilar IFCA CSIC aguilarf@ifca.unican.es
