The final output for this working group is the EMB Future Science Brief No. 6 'Big Data in Marine Science', launched during a dedicated webinar on 29 April 2020 from 13h00-15h00 (Brussels time). The webinar included short talks by authors of the Future Science Brief: Federica Foglini (CNR, Italy), Ketil Malde (IMR, Norway), Matthias Obst (Univ. Gothenburg, Sweden) and Jerry Tjiputra (NORCE, Norway) followed by a question and answer session with working group members. You can find the agenda here, and recordings of the talks on the EMB YouTube Channel.
Download the EMB Future Science Brief No.6 here.
Download infographic summaries here.
The 7th EMB Forum will be held on Friday 23rd October 2020 at Bluepoint, Brussels, and the focus of the event is Big Data in Marine Science. You can find out more here.
EMB co-organized a workshop on Big Data at European Maritime Day 2019 on 16-17 May 2019 in Lisbon, organized together with Campus Mondial de la Mer and EMODnet.
Data-driven innovation is driving a decline in the cost of data collection, storage and processing. Together with the increasing use of the internet, particularly for socio-economic activities, huge volumes of data are being generated and used – commonly referred to as “Big Data”.
The Big Data revolution, together with open science, brings about novel ways of understanding and addressing environmental challenges. This enables scientists in their research, including cloud based analyses of big geospatial data for the simulation of events e.g. flooding and enabling policy-makers to make informed and evidence-based decisions based on large, integrated data sets, e.g. on climate change. But at the same time it presents new challenges for policy makers, scientific institutions and individual researchers in terms of ways to store, analyze, manage and share data.
It is clear that in the future, the amount of ocean data produced, and its speed of delivery will increase significantly. Therefore, it is crucial to assess the marine data management requirements and how current systems e.g. databases and cloud storage may need to evolve to ensure data are accessible and retain their quality and provenance. Currently there are no definitive solutions.
The main objectives of this working group include, but are not limited to:
9-10 May 2019, Ostend, Belgium, news item here
Contact at European Marine Board Secretariat: Britt Alexander Email