LifeWatch ERIC
Episodes
49 episodes
Environmental Research Infrastructures: LifeWatch ERIC.
A Research Infrastructure is a facility that provides FAIR data, reproducible analytics and communities to its users. Not in order to make research, but in order to help those who are doing research by providing them with the right tools, to he...
The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and Water Column Observatory.
The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and Water Column Observatory is the European Research Infrastructure Consortium that specialises in monitoring and reporting the state of the ocean. That ocean that covers about 70% of the planet's surfac...
The Integrated Carbon Observation System
The Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) produces standardised, high-precision and long-term observations and facilitates research to understand the carbon cycle – which is how carbon atoms circulate through Earth’s land, air and ocean. ...
Danubius Research Infrastructure
The International Centre for Advanced Science on River-Sea Systems is known as the "Danubius Research Infrastructure". In reality, it's not about the Danube River, although the scientific idea started in the Danube Delta-Black Sea system,...
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments that works closely with data-holding institutions, natural history museums, universities, government agenc...
DiSSCo: the Distributed System of Scientific Collections
Natural Science Collections have been at the heart of addressing fundamental questions in science, innovation and discovery for centuries. They are the foundational layer of information and expertise for taxonomy, for biodiversity and eco...
The IAGOS Research Infrastructure & the ENVRI infrastructure project
Andreas Petzold from the Department of Global Observation at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research – 8 Troposphere of Forschungszentrum Jülich is a great believer in Research Infrastructures. As well as lecturing at the University of Wup...
EOSC: the European Open Science Cloud
EOSC, the European Open Science Cloud, is a web of FAIR data and services for science that offers visualisation and analytics, long-term information preservation and monitoring of the uptake of open science practices. It provides researchers, i...
S3, E1: The World Register of Marine Species is the #1 authority.
Season Three of the LifeWatch ERIC podcast 'A Window on Science' starts with a close-up on WoRMS, the World Register of Marine Species, hosted and curated by the Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), the Flanders Marine Institute, in Ostend. The...
S3, E2: Ocean Optimism: restoring health to the Ocean must not wait.
The original title of 'Ocean Optimism' does not imply that nothing is wrong with the Ocean, just that progress made in solving marine conservation challenges shows that there are grounds for hope for the future. Increased industrialisation and ...
S3, E3: The Critical Zone, the Earth's outer skin, needs better care.
The Critical Zone is the Earth's outer skin, where we all live: the space between the top of the vegetation canopy and the bottom of the surface aquifers, down to the undisturbed rock. It's a very thin layer, where rock meets life, and it is es...
S3, E4: Essential Biodiversity Variables are the most useful data for stakeholders.
Season Three of 'A Window on Science' features interviews with individuals who contribute to Open Science and the study of Invasive Alien Species. In S3, E4, Joris Timmermans from the University of Amsterdam, part of LifeWatch Netherlands, talk...
S3, E5: The ENVRI Project: Research Infrastructures work together to combat climate change.
ENVRI is a network, a community of Environmental Research Infrastructures that collaborate to observe the Earth as a whole. Every single research infrastructure, be it from the atmosphere or marine, solid Earth or ecosystems domain, contributes...
S3, E6: LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging laser technologies.
In the LifeWatch ERIC on-going catalogue of interesting acronyms, LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging. It is an active remote sensing technique that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure ranges to the Earth. The light pul...
S3, E7: The Louisiana Crayfish: an invasive alien species in European waterways.
In a departure from our regular interviews, Series 3, Episode 7 of the LifeWatch ERIC podcast 'A Window in Science' features a guest podcaster, Federica Gerini, who is completing her Masters in Science Communication at SISSA, the Scuola Interna...
S3, E8: The Azorean Biodiversity Portal helps conserve island habitats.
The Azores are a semitropical archipelago of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 kms west of Lisbon and 1,500 kms northwest of Morocco. The islands have some very impressive fauna and flora, but about 60% of the ende...
S3, E9: Sandy Beaches are at risk because of human overexploitation.
The somewhat confronting content of S3, E9, 'Sandy Beaches at Risk' is the result of research by Professor Omar Defeo at the Laboratory of Marine Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Uruguay. More than a third of the world's ice-free oc...
The underground Karst caves of Postojna: biodiversity and vulnerability.
Season 3, Episode 10 of 'A Window in Science' regards the demanding and sometimes dangerous biodiversity and ecosystem research in the underground Karst caves of Postojna, Slovenia. Karst is a special type of landscape that is formed by the dis...
S3, E11: Discovering the Marine Caves of the Mediterranean.
Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Assistant Professor at the Department of Environment at the Ionian University and Research collaborator at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, the leading partner in LifeWatch Greece, together with Markos Digenis, Ph...
S3, E12: Agrobiodiversity: food security joins hands with sustainability.
Vladislav Popov, Professor at the Department of Agroecology at the Agricultural University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, explains in S3, E12 that "Agrobiodiversity" regards the abundance of plants and animals, and their varieties, on farm land. Unlike ...
S3, E13: Invasive Crustaceans: can the threat become a resource?
According to the World Wildlife Fund, the Mediterranean Sea is one of the most plastic-polluted seas on the planet. And because of its busy commercial shipping routes, it is adversely affected by the presence of Non-indigenous and Invasiv...
S3, E14: Non-indigenous and Invasive Species in Ports and Marinas.
Dr. Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou and Ioannis Rallis from the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Crete, are scientific divers who investigate 'Non-indigenous and Invasive Species i...
S3, E15: What it's like to be an Early Career Researcher?
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research is what LifeWatch ERIC exists to support, providing online computing facilities to accelerate that research and making available data and tools to produce reliable knowledge that can then be employed by decis...
S3, E16: Agroecology: applying ecological processes to agriculture.
Agriculture has for fed the world for thousands of years and supplied enormous quantities of food to meet the needs of Earth's burgeoning population. But conventional agriculture has also caused a lot of problems, called externalities, such as ...
S3, E17: Europe - Latin American and Caribbean partnerships.
The Horizon 2020 project "Towards a New EU-LAC partnership in Research Infrastructures” known to everyone involved as just ResInfra, set up bi-regional Open Science collaboration between Europe and Latin American and Caribbean countries to esta...
