| Project Title | Research Teams | Research Project Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| Building new tools for data sharing and re-use through a transnational investigation of the socio-economic impacts of protected areas (PARSEC) | Yasuhiro Murayama, Research Executive Director, Strategic Program Produce Office, Social Innovation Unit, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan) | Scientific advances depend on the availability, accessibility and reusability of data, software, samples, and data products, which are internationally major challenges. A team in Japan conducts open science promotion in the research community and studies environmental research methodology including a transdisciplinary approach. Teams in France, Brazil, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and others will conduct, for example, research on socioeconomic effects of natural protected areas (PAs), a trans-disciplinary and trans-national synthesis science, a project on the use and re-use of environmental and socioeconomic data, assessment of practices for managing and preserving data. Through these international collaborations, integration of environmental science, international data community, and data-attribution e-infrastructures will be developed for prototyping leading practices on data citation, attribution, credit, and reuse. |
| Alison Specht, Director, Center for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB), Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité (France) | ||
| Shelley Stall, Director, Data Programs, American Geophysical Union (United States of America) | ||
| Pedro Pizzigatti Corrêa, Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Digital Systems, University of São Paulo (Brazil) | ||
| World Wide Web of Plankton Image Curation (WWW.PIC) | Dhugal John Lindsay, Senior Staff Scientist, Environmental Impact Assessment Research Group, Research and Development Center for Submarine Resources, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) (Japan) | WWW.PIC joins seven research centers in four countries and links the expertise of marine ecologists and computer scientists. Over three years and with a budget around €1M, it will leverage the past efforts of the partners and transform them into a publicly available solution for ecological images curation. The approaches chosen and the problems it will solve go well beyond the use case of plankton images. We therefore expect this infrastructure to accelerate the full path of transnational data use for many ecological questions, in many ecosystems. It will also foster an atmosphere of collaboration, sharing and openness of data that we feel is essential for the progress of science. |
| Jean-Olivier Irisson, Associate Professor, Laboratory of Oceanography in Villefranche, Sorbonne University (France) | ||
| Robert K. Cowen, Professor, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University (United States of America) | ||
| Nina S. T. Hirata, Associate Professor, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo (Brazil) |
The underlined name is the principal investigator of each research consortium.