LifeWatch ERIC
LifeWatch ERIC is a research infrastructure facilitating research into biodiversity and ecosystems, supporting society in addressing key planetary challenges. Our main series is 'A Window on Science', where we outline the progress made in the last two years, developing cutting edge e-services for biodiversity and ecosystem researchers. Learn more at www.lifewatch.eu.
Episodes
49 episodes
#49 Biodiversity responses, human well-being and climate change
Alberto Basset, Professor of Ecology at the University of Salento and Director of the LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre in Italy, in this fourth podcast on biodiversity issues, entitled "Biodiversity responses, human well-being and climate change" ...
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Episode 49
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26:06
# 48 The British Ecological Society: a personal view
Paul Bower, left the British Ecological Society in October 2023, after 7 years as Senior Development Manager. In this podcast "The British Ecological Society: a personal view", he speaks freely of the pride and gratitude he feels at having work...
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Episode 48
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23:10
#47 The need to conserve and manage biodiversity
Alberto Basset, Professor of Ecology at the University of Salento and Director of the LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre in Italy, in his third podcast "The need to conserve and manage biodiversity" argues there is no longer much wilderness left in ...
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Episode 47
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21:15
#46 How is biodiversity organised and maintained?
This second interview with Alberto Basset, Professor of Ecology at the University of Salento and Director of the LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre in Lecce, Italy, concerns "How biodiversity is organised and maintained". The organisation doesn't va...
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Episode 46
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16:18
#45 Polychaete research offers environmental and commercial opportunities
When Izwandy Idris fell in love with polychaete - baitworms or bloodworms - during his PhD, many people wondered why he wanted to specialise in worms, instead of more iconic marine species like whales and dolphins. Now, as Professor at the Inst...
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Episode 45
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21:31
#44 What is Biodiversity?
Alberto Basset, Professor of Ecology at the University of Salento and Director of the LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre in Lecce, Italy, features in this podcast 'What is Biodiversity', the first of our podcast series focused on biodiversity issues...
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Episode 44
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20:24
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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14:02
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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25:36
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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18:56
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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15:26
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,...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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25:47
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. ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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16:27
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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24:57
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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14:36
S3, E20: Publications in the Biodiversity Data Journal.
Publications have always been used as measures of research outcomes, especially in the academic research, and it is a common assumption that publications are, in fact, the output of research. This is however a simplistic vision of the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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11:58
S3, E19: Nanosatellite remote sensing in Andalusia - eyes in the sky!
The Andalusia Agency for Agriculture and Fisheries Development is preparing to launch a 10 kg nanosatellite in October 2023 and the mission will be managed by LifeWatch ERIC. Made possible under the European Union's Smartfood programme, the sat...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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17:26
S3, E18: Acoustic telemetry: tracking fish migrations.
Acoustic telemetry consists of a tag, a transmitter, implanted in fish, that sends a signal which can be picked up by receiving instruments, fixed hydrophones under water, that listen for these sounds. When a tagged fish is close to a receiver,...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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22:21
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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13:46
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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14:29
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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15:55
Voices of Women IWD: Nataša Pipenbaher (SI) and Ana Filipa Filipe (PT).
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2023, LifeWatch ERIC created this podcast series in which scientists from our eight EU member states talk, two at a time, candidly about their work and experience. These ' Voices of Women @LifeWatch ERIC f...
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Voices of Women IWD: Dessislava Dimitrova (BG) and Priscilla Licandro (IT).
Priscilla Licandro, from the Integrative Marine Ecology Department, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples, Italy and Dessislava Dimitrova, from the Institute of Biology and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, ge...
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23:03
Voices of Women IWD: LifeWatch ERIC International Gender Officer Africa Zanella.
The centerpiece in the 'Voices of Women @LifeWatch ERIC for International Women's Day' podcasts is this interview with International Gender Officer Africa Zanella, hosted by Chief Communication Officer Sara Montinaro, and published today 8 Marc...
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23:34
Voices of Women IWD: Britt Lonneville (BE) and Wanda Plaiti (GR).
LifeWatch ERIC has created a podcast miniseries to celebrate International Women’s Day 2023, featuring candid interviews with women working in science, called Voices of Women @LifeWatch ERIC for International Women's Day. The scientists we invi...
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22:10
Voices of Women IWD: Iria Soto (ES) and Yifang Shi (NL).
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2023, LifeWatch ERIC has created a podcast miniseries that investigates the authentic experiences of women working in science, called Voices of Women @LifeWatch ERIC for International Women's Day. We invit...
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