development of a marine biological data portal within the framework of emodnet

Development of a Marine Biological Data Portal within the framework of EMODNet

Simon Claus, Leen Vandepitte and Tjess HernandezFlanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

Outline Presentation

Summarise progress

Demonstrate prototype portal

Indicate timetable for rest of project

Feedback from potential users? Unexpected difficulties? Information from other ur-emodnet projects

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Summarise progress

WP1 Project Management

WP2 Technical Development

WP3 Data Digitisation, Standardisation, Analysis & Delivery

WP4 Data Management, QC/QA & Integration

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WP1 Project Management The Contract:

Signed 15/05/2009 between VLIZ and Commission

Consortium Agreement signed by all partners, first payments ok

Project Meetings Kick Off Meeting in Brussels (04/06/2009) Project Kick Off Meeting Ostend (all biological partners, 15/06/2009) Second general EMODNet Meeting (24/11/2009)

Reports: Five bi-monthly progress reports First interim technical report (13/05/2010)

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WP2 Technical Development Development phase (M1-M12) - Launch prototype Portal

A project website with information on the progress of the project

Portal Functionalities Metadata catalogue Querying of the Data:

Taxonomic Query - Temporal Query - Geographic Query - Depth Query Mapping of the data/GIS layers Downloading of the data OGC Compliancy, linked with WorMS and Seadatanet metadata compliant

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WP3 Data Standardisation, Analysis & Delivery & WP4 Data Management, QC/QA & Integration

First year: focus on gap analysis EurOBIS and marine biological data inventory

First data products

Organisation workshop on biological data products

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Gap analysis

Gap analysis and marine biological data inventory

Carried out end 2009 (207 datasets) Based on public available data in EurOBIS

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EurOBIS ? EurOBIS – European Ocean Biogeographic Information System (2004)

Biogeographic data on marine species:

taxon-name, latitude, longitude, date

Freely available

Quality controlled data

International data flow Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

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EurOBIS

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21%

18%

13%10%

9%

5%

24%

CPR (Plankton data)

PANGAEA (variable data)

ESAS (Bird data)

NBN Gateway (Benthos data UK)

ICES EcoSystem (Variable data)

Marbef databases (Benthos data)

Other (Variable data)

EurOBIS

International data flow

14% 6%

3%9%

41%

16%

11%

CPR (Plankton data)

JNCC (Benthos data UK)

Marbef databases (Benthos data)

ESAS (Bird data)

ICES EcoSystem (Variable data)

Other (Variable data)

PANGAEA

13,317,646 distribution records – 223 datasets

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Available data

EurOBIS

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EurOBIS

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Number of distribution records collected per year

0

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

1750 1835 1845 1855 1865 1875 1885 1895 1905 1915 1925 1935 1945 1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005

Gaps: temporal coverage

EurOBIS

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Gaps: geographical coverage

Analysis grid representing the number of distinct larger taxonomic groups (Mammals, Aves, Crustacea, Rotifera, Tunicata...) per grid-cell

EurOBIS

14

7078

Gaps: taxonomic coverage

Number of species per higher taxon group in EurOBIS compared to ERMS

EurOBIS

Starting from known initiatives and networks Goal of inventory

Identify existing marine biological datasets

How to accomplish?

Contact partner networks

EurOBIS, OBIS and GBIF (see gap analysis)

MARS Network (European Biological Research Stations and Institutes) and data legacy

FP6 MarBEF

ICES data centre

Pangaea World Data Centre

IBSS and Black Sea Biological Network

SeaDataNet

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Data inventory

MARS Network and data legacy FP6 MarBEF Data collected through

FP5 Biomare (2000-2002) FP6 MarBEF (2004-2009) MARS partners (2009-2010)

Data inventory: Total of 257 datasets Sent to over 100 people Question 1: knowledge of additional data? Question 2: data available for EurOBIS-EMODNet? Average response (±30%)

16

Location of MARS member institutes

Data inventory

ICES Data centre

DATRAS trawl surveys, 45 years Biological community & contaminants and

biological effects, 30 years Predator-prey, 12 years All will contribute to EMODNET, over 6 million records

Working groups … on benthos ecology … on zooplankton ecology

=> Partly available

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Data inventory

World Data Centre MARE / PANGAEA

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7%

43%

50%Various Benthos (Projects)

Various Plankton (Projects)

Helgoland Monitoring

1.5 million distribution records

Important plankton contribution

=> Already available to EMODnet

Data inventory

IBSS and ‘Black Sea Marine Biological Network’ Data inventory:

Total of 17 Black Sea datasets IBSS historical data from different cruises (1877- …) Zooplankton (1954 - …) Phytoplankton (1968 - …) Cetacea (1988 - …) Black Sea Mnemiopsis leidyi and Beroe ovata

database Stock assessments Black and Azov Sea Sebastopol Bay plankton monitoring NATO TU – Black Sea (1954-1996)

=> Some data already available

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Data inventory

SeaDataNet FP6 Network of NODC’s

49 partners (European NODC’s)

Link to physical-chemical data

Metadata inventory: in progr.

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Data inventory

Identifying long-term marine monitoring datasets Additional search for long-term biological data series

Two approaches National marine biological monitoring Regional marine biological monitoring

Work in progress

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Data inventory

Area Bay of Biscay Iberian coast Greater North Sea, including

Kattegat English Channel

Groups Benthos Plankton Macro-algae Reptiles Birds Mammals

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Focus

Indication of the focal area of the Biological lot (blue)

Data inventory

Identified national marine biological monitoring data

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Data inventory

Denmark

2010/02/2524benthos macro-algae & plantsphytoplankton

The Danish national database for marine data – MADS National Environmental Research Insitute (NERU) From 1979 onwards: 700 sites, 1,000 species Plankton, benthos, algae and plants Online available

Data inventory

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Identified regional marine biological monitoring data

Data inventory

Gap analysis

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Birds sampling effort – ES50

Mammals sampling effort – ES50

Annual anomalies of copepod abundance

Mean seasonal chlorophyll a values

Initial Data products

Workshops:

Biological Data Products Workshop (25-26/02/2010) Aim:

To define a set of derived data products (a.o. target species maps) relevant for private bodies, public authorities and researchers

Discuss the marine biological (monitoring) data availability in Europe and gaps

Present protoype portal to wide(r) community of European Biological Experts and capture feedback

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Biological Data Products Workshop (Participants)

MARE, DG Research, OSPAR, ICES, HELCOM, Black Sea Commission, coordinators of the

other lots, project partners and advisory board Greece, France, UK, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Russia, Ukraine,

US, New Zealand

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Biological Data Products Workshop (Outcomes):

Workshop report in progr. recommendations for future work (data products, analysis) Data products:

Species attributes (Identify species by tags: invasives, HAB’s) Species distribution maps (maps based on actual data + prediction and possible range) Time-related maps (map growth, biomass, size-structures on yearly, seasonally, monthly) Sensitivity and vulnerability maps

(Abiotic parameters needed, expert judgement necessary)

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Discuss the marine biological (monitoring) data availability in Europe and gaps

Good progress towards complete biological data inventory for EU

Ongoing => more information expected

Need to bring actual data togetherKeep in mind…

Embargo period for research data Regional reporting of national data => double entries! Presence versus abundance/biomass data Certain information needed for good integration

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Conclusions – data inventory

Biological national monitoring data Very few monitoring programmes cover all groups (benthos, plankton,

birds, …)= Gaps in taxonomic coverage Temporal span: start 70’s, 80’s, 90’s = no real historical data (pre-50’s) Comparison between national programmes? = e.g. sampling methodologies identical or

comparable? Fine-tuning of national programmes on European level?

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Conclusions

Demonstrate prototype portal

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Indicate timetable for rest of project

Test and upgrade portal

Organization of data –analysis workshops for creation of specific data-products and data layers

Interoperability and OGC/INSPIRE compliancy - link to other portals

Formulate recommandations for future (worskhop report,...)

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Indicate timetable for rest of project

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Feedback from potential users? Who will test the portal and provide feedback – workshop participants

Unexpected difficulties? Nothing unexpected: Incomplete inventories, unwillingness to

participate, inertia

Information from other ur-emodnet projects Specific needs in data products that will be developped

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THANK YOU!

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