1. (presented by Roman Gerlach)
Biodiversity and Climate Change Resource Interoperability for the GEOSS Interoperability Process Pilot Project
Stefano Nativi
(presented by Roman Gerlach)

2. GBIF IP3 Working Group GBIF Secretariat IEEE & University of Colorado
Éamonn O Tuama, Tim Robertson, Dave Martin, Donald Hobern
IEEE & University of Colorado
Siri Jodha Khalsa
Italian National Research Council (CNR-IMAA) & Univ. of Florence
Stefano Nativi, Paolo Mazzetti, Lorenzo Bigagli, Enrico Boldrini, Valerio Angelini, Ugo Mattia
University of Ottawa
Jeremy Kerr
University of Helsinki
Hannu Saarenmaa
University of Tokyo
Motomi Ito
WMO
David Thomas

3. Adopted solutions Write a formal and expanded use scenario
Use GBIF portal web services to access and retrieve the biodiversity data
Access and retrieve NCAR Climate Change data via OGC WCS
Interoperability with GBIF and Climate registries using GI-go/GI-cat federated catalog and Mediation Server (mapping to the ISO core metadata)
Use the Open Modeller ENM framework through its SOAP functionalities
Put together an AJAX based demonstrator user interface

4. 1. Write a formal and expanded use scenario
Modeling the impact of climate change on the distribution of the butterflies of Canada and Alaska
Scientific name = amblyscirtes vialis
Species taxonomy:
Animalia
->arthropoda
->insecta
->lepidoptera
->hesperiidae
->amblyscirtes
->amblyscirtes vialis

5. 2. Use GBIF web services to access and retrieve the biodiversity data
International organisation launched under the OECD Megascience Forum in 2001
40 countries, 33 int’l organisations members
Network of primary data
200 providers in 30 countries, connecting over 1000 databases, 124 million records of in-situ observations
GBIF has integrated 118 million primary biodiversity records from about 1000 databases
Building on Biodiversity Informatics Standards (
Darwin Core, ABCD, DiGIR, BioCASE, TAPIR, ...
MoU with OGC
Infrastructure
UDDI Registry, Data Portal, Cache of all data, Web Services
GBIF Central Data Portal
supports data validation and cleaning tasks

6. 3. Access and retrieve via OGC WCS Climate Change data
Data Source
GIS Climate Change Scenarios project conducted by the NCAR GIS Initiative
Provide Web access to free global datasets of climate change scenarios
generated for the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by the Community Climate System Model (CCSM).
Served through a WCS server
Downloaded from the NCAR GIS portal
Processed to generate Grid Coverages
Uploaded data and metadata to a WCS 1.0 server

7. 3. Access and retrieve via OGC WCS Climate Change data
Climate model outputs considered
Time
Present situation in: 2000
Future situations in: 2010, 2020, 2030, 2040, 2050
1 month of resolution
Space
1 x 1 degree of resolution
Parameters TS
Surface Temperature
PRW
Atmosphere Water Vapor Content PR
Precipitation Flux
PRSN
Snow Fall Flux
CLWVI
Atmosphere Cloud Condensed Water Content
MRRO
Runoff Flux
MRSO
Soil Moisture Content
Minimum and maximum monthly average surface temperatures are generated

8. 4. Interoperability with GBIF and climatological registries
Unique and consistent interface for resource discovery and query
Mediation to a unique Metadata Model: ISO core profile
Ecological Niche Model Server
Discovery
Download
Download
In order to expose a unique discovery and query interface
GI-cat/GI-go
In-situ
Biodiversity
Records
Climatological
and Environmental Data
GBIF Registry
WCS Registry

9. 5. Run ENM using the OpenModeller Framework
A technique called Ecological Niche Modelling (ENM)
The scientific approach for using primary biodiversity data for studying adaptation to various climate change scenarios has been created by Peterson & al. (2001, 2002).
A flexible, user friendly, cross platform environment where the entire process of conducting a fundamental niche modeling experiment can be carried out.
Apply GARP, BioClim
and other models
Ecological
Niches
Categorical
Climate Maps
Distributional Shifts
Region Shift
Distributional Shifts in
Ecological Niches

10. 6. Put together a demonstrator user interface
Demo AJAX Graphical User Interface running on your Web Browser
And running on your Web Browser

11. Registry
Consumer
Providers
SOA
Computational View

12. Demo Movie