LifeWatch developmentsand interaction with GBIF (nodes)

Wouter Los

What are the impacts of changes in climate, pollution and land/sea-use on biodiversity

How do changes affect the provision of ecosystem services

Can we adapt to environmental change

Where are the thresholds in ecosystem structures and functions

How to manage multi-functional land/sea-scapes

Which actions to ensure long-term sustainability

Experimentation on a fewparameters is not enough:

Limitations to scaling up results for understanding system properties

The biodiversity system is complex and cannot be described by the simple sum of its components and relations

LifeWatch adds a new methodology to support the generation and analysis of large-scale data-sets on biodiversity.Find patterns and learn processes.

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LifeWatch architecture

• Virtual laboratories for scientific cooperation

• Select the data, software, computing power

• Integrate resources

• Linking to resources (databases, sensors, software, computing power)

ServiceCentre

Virtual Labs – from data to science and policy

• Access to your selection of integrated data• Model biological systems: tackle complexity• Visualize data and model outcomes• Virtual experimentation: decision support

Distributed Data Generation

Terrestrial LTER Sites

Marine reference and focal sites

Natural sciencecollections

And many other European and global data facilities

Physical Infrastructures

External data liaisons (> 30 Eur + global)

Data examples

WindPrecipitationTemperature

Deposition

Wet Dry

GasesAerosoles

Tree response

Tree bioelementsEpiphyteresponse

Litter fall

Throughfall

Understory veg.

Soil waterWeathering

Soil (litter, humus, minerals)

Decomposition mineralization Root uptake

Groundwater

Surface water

Deer, birds

Credit: Michael Mirtl

LifeWatch as a distributed research infrastructure

Data gridmonitoring sitessensorscollections

Soft/Middleware grid

Computing grid

Part of an international infrastructure grid

Construction work - 1

Construction work - 2

ServiceCentre

Each described and

associated costs calculated.

Construction details and costs

Cooperative (support) projects•BioVEL •ViBRANT•ENVRI•EUDAT•PESI•i4Life•COOPEUS•Creative-B

Related projects•EUBrazilOpenBio•iMarine•D4Science•EnvEurope•agINFRA•EXPEER•EU BON

www.creative-b.eu

• Community priorities• Infrastructure interoperability• Legal and governance implications

www.creative-b.euwww.creative-b.eu

LifeWatch

ERIC Common Facilities

DistributedLifeWatch

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LifeWatch is cooperating with “distributed” LifeWatch Centres in cooperating countries, operating parts of the facilities and services.

All together these constitute the “LifeWatch Research Infrastructure”

15 % in-cashcontributions

85 % in-kindcontributions

Structure

Legal personality

• European legal entity according to the ERIC Council Regulation.

• ERIC = European Research Infrastructure Consortium.

• The ERIC Regulation allows a number of countries (the Consortium) to establish a European legal entity.

• The ERIC organisation than has a number of advantages, such as VAT exemption.

• LifeWatch Statutes have been prepared and are in process for EC approval.

• Countries can join the LifeWatch ERIC at any time.

• This spring is the Inter-ministerial meeting of founding countries

General Assembly

ERIC organisation

ExecutiveManagement

(Independent)Centres

Service level agreements

Operational relations

Countries Countries

Managing distributed LifeWatch

Dealing with in-kind contributions

Construction Contracts

• Description of delivery

• Agreements on production, delivery, adjustments

• Assignments of responsibilities and credits

• Developments guided by a LifeWatch expert group

• Involvement of the user community

• Review mechanisms (assessment procedure)

• (Transfer of) ownership and IPR

• Valuation of costs, cost changes

• Settlement of disputes

Service level agreements

• Position of distributed centre(s) in LifeWatch

• Agreements on tasks, standards, protocols and quality

• Alignment of responsibilities

• Financial support (following country commitments)

• Identification and valuation mechanisms of in-kind contributions

• Periodic evaluation of services

• Provisions for finishing the agreement

• 15 % in-cash for Common Facilities• 85 % in-kind contributions controlled by contracts and SLAs

PreparationsPreparations ConstructionConstruction OperationsOperations

LifeWatch is currently in a transition phase towardsstarting full construction

Current status

2008 2011 2013 2016/18

Positions of countries

• Planning to join the LifeWatch ERIC - 8 countries

• Still processing domestic decision - 5 countries

• Expressed interest,

but currently no action possible - 7 countries

Interaction with GBIF (nodes)

• Global cooperation through Creative-B project• Memorandum of Cooperation GBIF-LifeWatch

– Development of joint demand-driven data discovery and mobilisation plans – Promotion,of GBIF Informatics processes and tools by LifeWatch users, and

LifeWatch e-infrastructure services by GBIF users – Promoting the participation of European countries

• Cooperation between national LifeWatch Centres and GBIF-nodes

– Global/European cooperation to be reflected at the national scale– Consider plans to deploy GBIF-nodes data in applications– Be pro-active to enter cooperation opportunities with LifeWatch

Thank you