Update: due to COVID-19 the event has been postponed to October 23, 2020.
7th European Marine Board Forum on Big Data in Marine Science
The Forum is one of the European Marine Board's principle approaches for bridging the gap between science and policy. The event will bring together scientists from diverse backgrounds, including marine science and computer scientists, as well as representatives from industry and European and national policy makers to collaborate and discuss priorities for the use of big data in marine science to work towards solutions to societal challenges. The event will feature the launch our new Future Science Brief on Big Data.
The 7th EMB Forum aims to foster discussion and collaboration between diverse stakeholders to work towards solutions enabling the development of big data to support marine science. Talks and panel discussions will include representatives from science, industry, policy, governance, data services and NGOs. Key challenges and recommendations will be discussed relating to societal issues including sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, climate change and the oceans, and ocean observations. Cross-cutting issues of data acquisition, data handling and management, service interoperability, data accessibility, computing infrastructure, data sharing, big data analytics, training networks and collaboration will be explored.
The draft programme is available here. The event will be free of charge but all participants will be expected to be registered beforehand. Registrations will open soon.