A Science gateway for biodiversity and climate change research

Donatello Elia; Alessandra Nuzzo; Paola Nassisi; Sandro Fiore; Ignacio Blanquer; Francisco V. Brasileiro; Iana A. A. Rufino; Arie C. Seijmonsbergen; Niels S. Anders; Carlos de O. Galvao; John E. de B. L. Cunha; Mariane de Sousa-Baena; Vanderlei P. Canhos; Giovanni Aloisio

doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.2834v1

A Science gateway for biodiversity and climate change research

Donatello Elia¹, Alessandra Nuzzo¹, Paola Nassisi¹, Sandro Fiore ¹, Ignacio Blanquer², Francisco V. Brasileiro³, Iana A. A. Rufino³, Arie C. Seijmonsbergen⁴, Niels S. Anders⁴, Carlos de O. Galvao³, John E. de B. L. Cunha³, Mariane de Sousa-Baena⁵, Vanderlei P. Canhos⁵, Giovanni Aloisio^1,6

1 Advanced Scientific Computing Division, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Lecce, Italy

2 Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

3 Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brasil

4 IBED, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

5 Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental, Campinas, Brasil

6 Dept. of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2834v1

Published: 2017-03-01
Accepted: 2017-03-01

Subject Areas: Data Science, Scientific Computing and Simulation, Software Engineering
Keywords: Science Gateways, Scientific Data Management and Analytics, Environmental Sciences

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Cite this article: Elia D, Nuzzo A, Nassisi P, Fiore S, Blanquer I, Brasileiro FV, Rufino IAA, Seijmonsbergen AC, Anders NS, Galvao CdO, Cunha JEdBL, de Sousa-Baena M, Canhos VP, Aloisio G. 2017. A Science gateway for biodiversity and climate change research. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2834v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2834v1

Abstract

Climate and biodiversity systems are closely interlaced across a wide range of scales. To better understand the mutual interaction between climate change and biodiversity there is a strong need for multidisciplinary skills, tools and a large variety of heterogeneous, distributed data sources. In this regard, the EUBrazilCloudConnect project provides a user-centric research environment built on top of a federated cloud infrastructure across Europe and Brazil to serve scientific needs. One of the test cases implemented in this project focuses on climate change and biodiversity research. The BioClimate is the Science Gateway of the use case. It aims at providing end-users with a highly integrated environment, addressing mainly data analytics requirements. This paper presents a complete overview about BioClimate and the scientific environment delivered to the user community at the end of the project.

Author Comment

The abstract was presented during the IWSG 2016 workshop, 8-10 June 2016, Rome, Italy.