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January 2021
SIOS Polar Night Week 2021 – Registration open!
Registration for Polar Night Week 2021 is now open! As the event is virtual this year SIOS have made each day shorter than normal to suit the time zones of all SIOS members. Despite the lighter programme we can promise many interesting and productive sessions, including the release of the new SESS report, workshops on SIOS services, core data, and adapting to Covid-19 and the new normal, as well as a strategy session for the next phase of SIOS-KC funding…
Find out more »ERIC Forum meeting
The upcoming ERIC Forum meeting will be held online on 26-27 January 2021. It will bring together the ERIC community and its stakeholders to discuss, among other topics, ERIC’s role in the new ERA (European Research Area), ERICs and the new ESFRI Stakeholder Forum, the ERIC guidelines, opportunities for ERICs at the EIC (European Innovation Council) and more. The meeting will also incorporate updates from the ERIC Forum Implementation Project, where project partners will present the current status of each…
Find out more »February 2021
Register to first virtual ENVRI Week
What is ENVRI week? ENVRI week is a week dedicated to Environmental Research Infrastructures. During the runtime of the ENVRI-FAIR project, it is organized once a year. ENVRI week hosts ENVRI-FAIR project related sessions as well as several other sessions targeting different groups of stakeholders. Agenda An outline of the preliminary agenda can be downloaded from here. Registration Thank you for your interest in ENVRI week. You can register for the event by filling in the online form. The registration form…
Find out more »Africa-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures
Register now for the Africa-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures and join future collaborators on 1-2 Feb 2021 to explore synergies and opportunities for Research Infrastructures in Africa and Europe to work together. Research Infrastructures are organizations providing state-of-the-art resources, services and expertise to scientists. The RI-VIS project unites research infrastructures across scientific domains and world regions in order to work together more efficiently and effectively and increase their visibility in society at large.Our Africa-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures will gather staff from the European infrastructures and African research infrastructures and institutions who might…
Find out more »Invitation to the EGI-ACE project public launch event
EGI invites you to the public launch event of the EGI-ACE project which will be held online on the 5th of Feb, between 9 am - 2 pm CET. EGI-ACE (EGI Advanced Computing for EOSC) is funded in INFRAEOSC0-7(a1) to deliver the EOSC Compute Platform and to contribute to the EOSC Data Commons through a federation of Cloud compute and storage facilities, PaaS services and data spaces with analytics tools and federated access services. The public launch event will introduce…
Find out more »Projects in the frame of the SIOS Research Infrastructure Access programme
Register for the webinar here. Tentative Programme: 10:00 - 10:05 Shridhar Jawak (SIOS Remote Sensing Officer) - Welcome and updates from SIOS-KC 10:05 – 10:10 Inger Jennings (SIOS Access and Logistics officer) - Introduction to the webinar 10:10 - 11:25 Talks from participants in the access programme: Katharina Jentzsch (AWI) - Near real-time observations of snow water equivalent for SIOS on Svalbard Christoph Thomas (Uni of Bayreuth) - NYTEFOX: NY-Alesund TurbulencE Fiber-Optic eXperiment Andreas Alexander (UiO) - Innovate GLOF: Interdisciplinary observations of the Setevatnet glacier lake outburst flood…
Find out more »‘Bring your own provenance cases’ workshop
Introduction From an inventory among the various subdomain work packages in ENVRI-FAIR, WP6 concluded that Provenance Tracing was high on the priority list of training requirements for RI’s. Using the very relevant outcomes of the ENVRIplus project as written down in Deliverable D8.5 (Data provenance and tracing for environmental sciences: system design), we have put together a series of events. The first event is focusing on A workshop-type session in collaboration with WP7 to discuss cases, issues, problems and questions collected…
Find out more »March 2021
WORKSHOP ON ACCESS TO RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE ARCTIC AT THE ASSW
Welcome to join the ‘Workshop on International Access to Research Infrastructure in the Arctic’ taking place March 23, 2021, 9-15 GMT (please sign up via #ASSW2021), and participate in the land- or marine based breakout sessions. Purpose of the workshop Initiating dialogue and developing networks that facilitate access for international scientists to national research facilities and infrastructure in the Arctic (also referred to as “transnational” or “cross-border” access): Identifying challenges, best practices, and next steps. Physical access to research infrastructure in…
Find out more »SIOS Data management course series
The SIOS Data Management System Working group (SDMS WG) has prepared a series of online training courses. The first edition will take place in March and April 2021 and will be led by specialists from SIOS-KC, MET.NO, NERSC, NINA and the Nansen Legacy. The training will consist of presentations (online or pre-recorded), exercises and discussions on specific problems with the tutor. The offer of training topics will be extended in accordance with the participants' suggestions. Below you will find the…
Find out more »April 2021
2nd GEO Knowledge Hub Webinar – Knowledge Package Deep Dive
2nd GEO webinar will cover a deep dive into the Land Use/Land Cover Classification Knowledge Package developed by the Brazilian Data Cube team at INPE. This webinar will be held on 1 April 2021 from 13h00 to 14h00 CET. The webinar will illustrate the journey of a Knowledge Provider, from creating a Knowledge Package through to sharing it in the GEO Knowledge Hub. The Knowledge Provider will also illustrate their user experience and highlight the added value a Knowledge Package offers to fully…
Find out more »Mediterranean and Black Seas & Arctic and Baltic workshops dedicated to Argo floats
Mediterranean and Black Seas workshop Dates: 8-9 April 2021 Format: ONLINE event, half-day sessions. Organizing committee: Dimitris Kassis (HCMR), Giulio Notarstefano (OGS), Lara Diaz (SOCIB), John Allen (SOCIB), Vincent Taillandier (SU), Atanas Palazov (IOBAS), Violetta Slabakova (IOBAS), Estérine Evrard (EA ERIC) For any other questions related with the Mediterranean and Black Seas workshop, please email Dimitris Kassis (referent for the Mediterranean Sea) or Atanas Palazov (referent for the Black Sea). Objectives of the workshop Stakeholders are most welcome to attend and learn more about…
Find out more »Planning fieldwork in 2021?
Join the special edition of our virtual hangout on Friday 9 April 2021 - 9:30 CEST and chat with us and other researchers about travel and coordination! On Friday 9 April we will have a special edition of our weekly virtual hangout with the SIOS community to give you a platform to discuss the coming field season, potential collaboration and an exchange of experiences concerning the travel restrictions and regulations when entering Norway connected with the ongoing pandemic. If you…
Find out more »International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems – IMDIS 2021
Date: 12 Apr 2021 to 14 Apr 2021 Location: Online The International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems (IMDIS) has the aim of providing an overview of the existing information systems to serve different users in ocean science. It also shows the progress in the development of efficient: infrastructures for managing large and diverse data sets, standards, interoperable information systems, services and tools for education. Due to the sanitary situation linked to COVID-19 pandemic, IMDIS Steering Committee decided to postpone IMDIS…
Find out more »Combining fixed and mobile ocean observing systems and their link with satellite observation – The 1st International Eurofleets+ workshop
The 1st International Eurofleets+ workshop will take place on the afternoon of the 13th of April, from 14:00 until 17:30 (CET). The event will bring together representatives from research vessels operators, fixed-point observatories (coastal and deep-ocean), mobile systems (unmanned vehicles, ARGO floats), remote sensing (airborne, satellite), as well as policy makers in the environmental-marine domain. One of the objectives of this workshop will be to better coordinate the above-mentioned actors, and to explore the future of this collaboration, with an interdisciplinary and…
Find out more »“ENVRI meets Stakeholders” virtual event
High-level meeting on the alignment of ENVRI-FAIR data policies with International stakeholders Environmental research infrastructures (RIs) are committing significant resources to ensure greater harmonization of FAIR policies among them. However, the ENVRI strategy must be known and shared with its main stakeholders at the international level. This session aims to engage initial exchanges between Environmental RIs and international organizations on access to data and data resources and to ensure alignment of policies at all levels. All the Research infrastructure managers…
Find out more »EGU 2021
General Assembly 2021, traditionally held each spring in Vienna, Austria, will take place entirely online due to the continuing risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting restrictions on international travel. We at ICOS Head Office very much regret yet another missed opportunity to meet our friends and colleagues from ICOS community. We nevertheless hope we can meet our community members and other EGU members at least virtually during the ICOS organized sessions. EGU and its conference partner, Copernicus…
Find out more »The ESFRI Clusters at RDA House of Commons
Debating commonalities and collaboration for thematic services, training and governance towards the European Open Science Cloud One and a half years after the RDA session in Helsinki, the five ESFRI cluster projects, the RDA community, and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) representatives come together again, to discuss the past, present and future of their collaboration during the journey of integrating thematic services into EOSC. We want to beat your Zoom fatigue and engage you in a spiked house-of-commons styled debate.…
Find out more »ENVRI-FAIR side event at the RDA 17th Plenary – The ENVRI-Hub for EOSC and Planet Earth
The ENVRI-Hub for EOSC and Planet Earth: FAIR and open Earth System science, data and data services for Environmental Challenges The European Environmental Research Infrastructures organized in the ENVRI community hold a wealth of data regarding the planet Earth and its natural environment. This (in situ) data is a critical component in tackling Global Challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, natural hazards, ocean acidification, etc. Making sure this data is openly available, easy to find, and interoperable to allow its…
Find out more »ENVRI-FAIR presentation at virtual EGU 2021
Are you attending the virtual EGU 2021? Then do not miss the presentation about Advancing the FAIRness and Openness of Earth system science in Europe by the ENVRI-FAIR coordinator Andreas Petzold. The talk will take place on Tuesday, April 27th as part of the ESSI3.3 session focusing on "The evolving Open and FAIR ecosystem for Solid Earth and Environmental sciences: challenges, opportunities, and other adventures". More information about the talk can be found here. Abstract Advancing the FAIRness and Openness…
Find out more »May 2021
9th EuroGOOS International Conference
The EuroGOOS international conference takes place every three years. The conference provides a forum for a broad range of implementers and users of operational oceanography services, including marine scientists and technologists, private companies, and policymakers. The conference reviews the present ocean monitoring and forecasting capacities and oceanographic services, and identifies new science and technology priorities. It facilitates dialogue, experience sharing and future planning with both European and international partners and stakeholders, towards a more coordinated response to global challenges and…
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