The beta version of the Blue-Cloud Data Discovery and Access Service is online! Test this framework for finding, discovering and accessing marine environmental data and data products, built upon existing European marine data repositories, infrastructures and data services, and made possible thanks to the sharing and input of expertise and best practice from key actors in the European marine data space.
The Blue-Cloud consortium has produced a new video to introduce the infrastructures involved in this journey, as well as the core services developed to foster Open Science in the marine domain, in support of a sustainable blue economy. Watch it now!
Blue-Cloud is one of ten innovative EU projects to build ocean observation systems that provide input for evidence-based management of the ocean and the Blue Economy, which have joined forces in the strong cluster ‘Nourishing Blue Economy and Sharing Ocean Knowledge’. Under the lead of the EuroSea project, the group published a joint policy brief listing recommendations for sustainable ocean observation and management. The policy brief was presented to the European Commission on 15 October 2021.
The Blue-Cloud has been made accessible via the EGI federation of identities, one of the main logins for the wider EOSC ecosystem, allowing Blue-Cloud users to use their credentials to access any other EOSC services such as the EOSC Portal.
"An Open Science approach to infer fishing activity pressure on stocks and biodiversity from vessel tracking data", an article written by the Blue-Cloud team, was featured in Volume 64 of Ecological Informatics. Learn more about this Open Science integration approach for vessel tracking data.
The Blue-Cloud demonstrator Zoo & Phytoplankton EOV Products was introduced by Michiel Vandegehuchte from VLIZ at the 19 August episode of the EMB's series of webinars on marine science for the UN Ocean Decade.
Blue-Cloud was mentioned in an article on the French website Maddyness, covering the relevance of ocean data for OceanTech ranging from energy to food and transport.
Toste Tanhua, Blue-Cloud ESEB member and EuroSea coordinator, has provided his point of view about Blue data infrastructures and the importance of creating connections with international players for their integration. Read more!
The All-Atlantic Data Enterprise 2030 (AA-DATA2030) Joint Pilot Action aims at creating a one-stop, user-friendly transatlantic platform for gathering natural, social, and social-scientific data: the All-Atlantic Ocean Data Space (AAODS). Discover how it is related to Blue-Cloud
The public consultation towards the Blue-Cloud Strategic Roadmap to 2030 has reached an important milestone: contributions have been gathered from nearly 100 stakeholders to shape policy recommendations for evolving Blue-Cloud as a thematic, cloud-based Open Science ecosystem for marine research into the future.
The EU-funded H2020 project Blue-Cloud contributed to advancing the interoperability of fisheries data. The FAO FIRMS Global Tuna Atlas will support and improve fisheries management across the globe.
Our impressions on the first Digital Ocean Forum held in Paris on 20-21 April, hosted by Mercator Ocean International, introducing the Digital Twin Ocean.
Blue-Cloud experts from VLIZ, GHER-Uliege, CNRS, Sorbonne University, EMBL-EBI, CMCC, IFREMER, FAO, CLS, have prepared a list of brief articles explaining what researchers can do within our current Virtual Labs.
CORDIS has recently released a synergy info pack for the "Restore our ocean and waters" EU Mission, and Blue-Cloud was included in the list of projects to watch.
The Blue-Cloud Hackathon brought together nearly 150 participants from a diverse community of marine science practitioners, computer scientists and innovators to test Blue-Cloud's web-based ecosystem of Open Science services and resources to address selected Ocean challenges. Three teams were awarded for their work towards improving aquaculture management and studying wildlife interactions.