Blue-Cloud poster - EMODnet Open Conference 2021

The Horizon 2020 Blue-Cloud (B-C) project launched in October 2019, aims to demonstrate the potential of web-based Open Science in the marine domain. To deliver on this objective, B-C is piloting the development of a web-based cyber platform that provides marine scientists with enhanced analytical capabilities. It facilitates their engagement in collaborative research and provides them with access to powerful cloud-computing resources, a range of analytical tools and simplified access to multi-disciplinary data from in situ and satellite-derived observations to model outputs. Blue-Cloud addresses the Innovation Action “The Future of Seas and Oceans Flagship Initiative (BG-07-2019-2020)” and it is co-designed by, and builds on, existing European capability, including trusted data services (EMODnet, CMEMS) and other key marine data and research infrastructures (SeaDataNet, EurOBIS, Euro-Argo, Argo GDAC, ELIXIR-ENA, EuroBioImaging, and ICOS-Marine) and e-infrastructures (EUDAT, D4Science, WEkEO).

In particular, Blue-Cloud demonstrators are going to integrate diverse data from EMODnet. For example, biodiversity and environmental data (relevant for the ‘Plankton Genomics’ demonstrator), physics, biology, chemistry data (relevant for the ‘Marine Environmental Indicators’ demonstrator), biology and coastlines data (relevant for ‘Fish, a matter of scales’ demonstrator), and in-situ environmental data for ground-truthing and European marine topography (relevant for ‘Aquaculture Monitor’ demonstrator). Moreover, the EMODnet potential is going to be exploited to create a bridge between the Blue-Cloud and the EU-funded projects the consortium has established synergies with (e.g. AQUA-Lit, ENVRI-FAIR).