Work Package 8 Outreach & Training Simon Keeble Blue Lobster

 Blue Lobster (BLIT)  University of Azores (UAzores)  Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)  Universitetet I Bergen (UiB)  Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale OGS (OGS)  Stichting Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Voor Zeeonderzoek (NIOZ)  Marum, University of Bremen (UniHB)  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster PARTNERS

 To engage with, educate, and inform public, scientific and policy user groups  To develop an informative and interactive suite of complimentary tools that educates and engages public, scientific and policy user groups and maximise engagement with end users.  To produce educational and informational resources that deliver knowledge to end user groups  To deliver a series of training opportunities that informs, educates and promotes best practices to professional users of hardware, data and data products WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster OBJECTIVES

 FixO3 website design, development and maintenance (BLIT (Lead); NERC)  Targeted presentation of project outputs and “knowledge” to scientists, policy makers, industry and the general public for presentation on the website and design of a series of high impact visual outputs (UAzores (Lead); UiB, NERC, BLIT)  Development and implementation of visual data products into the FixO3 website (BLIT (Lead))  Develop and operate a Social Media campaign utilising a variety of platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) and integrate into the website (BLIT (Lead))  Organisation of training for less experienced users of hardware (OGS (Lead))  Organisation of training for less experienced users of data (UniHB (Lead))  Organisation of training for less experienced users of data products (NIOZ (Lead)) WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster TASKS

 D8.1 Project holding page (M1 - September 2013)  D8.2 Design and Launch FixO3 website (M8 - April 2014)  D8.3 First 3 high impact visual outputs conveying 3 key concepts relating to FixO3 and open ocean observatories (M23 - July 2015)  D8.4 Final 3 high impact visual outputs conveying 3 key concepts relating to FixO3 and open ocean observatories (M35, July 2016)  D8.5 Year 1 Project Newsletter (M13 – September 2014)  D8.6 Year 2 Project Newsletter (M25, September 2015)  D8.7 Year 3 Project Newsletter (M37, September 2016)  D8.8 Years 4 Project Newsletters (M48, September 2017)  D8.9 Launch of visual data products section of the FixO3 website (M15, November 2014)  D8.10 A 3-day training course on the instrument, set up, programming, data download, data conversion for less experienced users of hardware (M25, September 2015)  D8.11 A 2-day workshop on the uses of existing data infrastructures, importance and metadata and property rights and uses of key online and stand alone software and tools for less experienced users of data (M20, April 2015)  D8.12 A full two day training course on acquisition, validation and quality control and access to interventive (biodiversity) data for less experienced users of data products (M35, July 2016) WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster DELIVERABLES

 FixO3 project website designed and launched (  FixO3 project Facebook page set up  FixO3 project Twitter Account set up  Project server set up and ftp site created WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster D8.2 Project Website

 Since the launch of the website in January:  visits (5% mobile)  page views, 4.72 pages per session, 6:22 average session duration  107 countries  Currently averaging around visits per month. WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster Website Statistics

 Twitter: 541 followers (over 75% involved in marine / environmental science, research or in education.  Facebook: 48 likes….not so popular!  The community is not vast but we must aim for maximum outreach.  The use of Social media for Science Communication is increasing quite significantly.  More work needed on social outreach, news to promote etc. WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster Social Media Statistics

 Year 1 Project Newsletter produced and distributed WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster D8.4 Project Newsletter

 2 of 3 high impact visual outputs conveying key concepts of the FixO3 project complete  FixO3 project poster  TNA Brochure  National Geographic article for the Portuguese edition is in progress (UoA)  On schedule to be delivered by July 2015  There are a variety of other visual outputs on the website at (you will need to be logged into the site) WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster D8.3 Visual Outputs

WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster D8.3 Visual Outputs

 FixO3 Visual Data Products / Tools on FixO3 project website  Currently available for 11 observatories  Following this meeting data owners will be contacted to check their data before being made public.  Still have some changes to make but now looking for some feedback.  Would like more data! WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster D8.9 Data Products

Blue Lobster Data flow FixO3 Database NetCDF CSV XML ODV Etc. Data Archives

 A variety of plot types for different types of data.  Plots are interactive and allow the user to zoom to a finer resolution.  Plots can be opened in a separate window to allow them to be expanded in size.  Ability to download images in PNG and SVG format.  Ability to download data used in plots (finest resolution daily averaged data – no raw data).  Display metadata (from the NetCDF file or ability to add manually or links to other resources).  Plenty of room for text and links to source data is available.  Viewing plots is public but to download a plot or data, site registration is required.  When selecting download, a question form asks for what the products will be used for and can provide an appropriate citation – this is not mandatory.  All views of plots are recorded and all downloads are recorded - Date, time, user ID (if logged in), dataset and parameter.  Plots can be added to other websites. WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster Data Products - Features

 Workshop for less experienced users of data “An introduction and practical use of European marine data infrastructures”  Atlantic Hotel Universum, Bremen, April  Draft agenda prepared and will be distributed shortly  T&S funding for 20 delegates  Primarily aimed at PhD students and early career scientists  Please help to distribute to potential delegates!  Lead: UniHB/MARUM WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster D8.11 Data Workshop Organiser: Andree Behnken

 3-day workshop for less experienced users of Hardware  Will be held in Trieste in September 2015  Draft agenda planned by end of 2014  T&S funding for 15 delegates but will be open to more  Primarily aimed at PhD students and early career scientists  Lead: OGS WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster D8.10 Hardware Workshop Organiser: Vanessa Cardin

 Visual data products to be launched (D8.9, Nov 2014)  FixO3 article to be published in Portuguese edition of The National Geographic  First workshop for less experienced users of data to be held in Bremen (D8.11, April 2015)  Delivery of first 3 high impact visual outputs (D8.3, July 2015)  Year 2 Project Newsletter to be delivered (D8.6, September 2015)  Second workshop for less experienced users of hardware to be held in Trieste (D8.10, September, 2015) WP 8 – Outreach and Training Blue Lobster Next 12 Months