1. LifeWatch developments and interaction with GBIF (nodes) Wouter Los

3. What are the impacts of changes in climate, pollution and land/sea-use on biodiversity How do changes affect the provision of ecosystem services Can we adapt to environmental change Where are the thresholds in ecosystem structures and functions How to manage multi-functional land/sea-scapes Which actions to ensure long-term sustainability

4. Experimentation on a few parameters is not enough: Limitations to scaling up results for understanding system properties The biodiversity system is complex and cannot be described by the simple sum of its components and relations LifeWatch adds a new methodology to support the generation and analysis of large-scale data-sets on biodiversity. Find patterns and learn processes.

6. Andrew D. Barton et al, Patterns of Diversity in Marine Phytoplankton, Science online 25 Feb 2010 A single vizualized result. But we would like to see thousands of these.

8. LifeWatch architecture Virtual laboratories for scientific cooperation Select the data, software, computing power Integrate resources Linking to resources (databases, sensors, software, computing power) Service Centre

9. Virtual Labs – from data to science and policy Access to your selection of integrated data Model biological systems: tackle complexity Visualize data and model outcomes Virtual experimentation: decision support

10. Distributed Data Generation Terrestrial LTER Sites Marine reference and focal sites Natural science collections And many other European and global data facilities Physical Infrastructures

11. External data liaisons (> 30 Eur + global)

12. Data examples Wind Precipitation Temperature Deposition WetDry Gases Aerosoles Tree response Tree bioelements Epiphyte response Litter fall Throughfall Understory veg. Soil water Weathering Soil (litter, humus, minerals) Decomposition mineralizationRoot uptake Groundwater Surface water Runoff Deer, birds Credit: Michael Mirtl

13. LifeWatch as a distributed research infrastructure Data grid monitoring sites sensors collections Soft/Middleware grid Computing grid Part of an international infrastructure grid

14. Construction work - 1 32 European data facilities & networks Enhancing data structures with EUDAT project Data discovery: ENVRI project Computational access: EGI Core ICT support (ES) Grid/Cloud framework SOA & semantic web Data reference/provenance Sensors/devices support Taxonomic backbone (BE) Citizen science (SE) Cooperation with i4Life and COOPEUS projects Apps. Services & Workflow enhancement (NL) Virtual research environments with BioVEL and ViBRANT projects Dedicated Virtual Labs (Communities in all countries) Concertation & Scientific priorities (NL + IT) Innovation Lab (NL) Proof of concept and testing: BioVEL project

15. Construction work - 2 Service Centre Service operations (IT) Users access Partnership & networking Training & Cap. Building Helpdesk LifeWatch National Centres Committee (LinCC) Data Providers Platform

16. Each described and associated costs calculated. Construction details and costs

17. Cooperative (support) projects BioVEL ViBRANT ENVRI EUDAT PESI i4Life COOPEUS Creative-B Related projects EUBrazilOpenBio iMarine D4Science EnvEurope agINFRA EXPEER EU BON

18. www.creative-b.eu Community priorities Infrastructure interoperability Legal and governance implications

19. www.creative-b.eu

20. LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities Distributed LifeWatch Centre Distributed LifeWatch Centre Distributed LifeWatch Centre Distributed LifeWatch Centre Distributed LifeWatch Centre Distributed LifeWatch Centre Distributed LifeWatch Centre Distributed LifeWatch Centre LifeWatch is cooperating with “distributed” LifeWatch Centres in cooperating countries, operating parts of the facilities and services. All together these constitute the “LifeWatch Research Infrastructure” 15 % in-cash contributions 85 % in-kind contributions Structure

21. Legal personality European legal entity according to the ERIC Council Regulation. ERIC = European Research Infrastructure Consortium. The ERIC Regulation allows a number of countries (the Consortium) to establish a European legal entity. The ERIC organisation than has a number of advantages, such as VAT exemption. LifeWatch Statutes have been prepared and are in process for EC approval. Countries can join the LifeWatch ERIC at any time. This spring is the Inter-ministerial meeting of founding countries

22. General Assembly ERIC organisation Executive Management (Independent) Centres Service level agreements Operational relations Countries Managing distributed LifeWatch

23. Dealing with in-kind contributions Construction Contracts Description of delivery Agreements on production, delivery, adjustments Assignments of responsibilities and credits Developments guided by a LifeWatch expert group Involvement of the user community Review mechanisms (assessment procedure) (Transfer of) ownership and IPR Valuation of costs, cost changes Settlement of disputes Service level agreements Position of distributed centre(s) in LifeWatch Agreements on tasks, standards, protocols and quality Alignment of responsibilities Financial support (following country commitments) Identification and valuation mechanisms of in-kind contributions Periodic evaluation of services Provisions for finishing the agreement 15 % in-cash for Common Facilities 85 % in-kind contributions controlled by contracts and SLAs

24. Preparations Construction Operations LifeWatch is currently in a transition phase towards starting full construction Current status 2008201120132016/18

25. Positions of countries Planning to join the LifeWatch ERIC - 8 countries Still processing domestic decision - 5 countries Expressed interest, but currently no action possible- 7 countries

26. Interaction with GBIF (nodes) Global cooperation through Creative-B project Memorandum of Cooperation GBIF-LifeWatch –Development of joint demand-driven data discovery and mobilisation plans –Promotion,of GBIF Informatics processes and tools by LifeWatch users, and LifeWatch e-infrastructure services by GBIF users –Promoting the participation of European countries Cooperation between national LifeWatch Centres and GBIF-nodes –Global/European cooperation to be reflected at the national scale –Consider plans to deploy GBIF-nodes data in applications –Be pro-active to enter cooperation opportunities with LifeWatch

27. Thank you