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The D4Science World User Meeting has been published on ERCIM News nr. 80, January 2010, Special theme: Digital Preservation.

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The survey will be closed next Wednesday, 16 December 2009.

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The D4Science project actively participated in the EGEE'09 conference held at the Hotel Barcelo Sants in Barcelona between the 21 and 25 September 2009. The conference was attended by more than 630 delegates from many different countries and focused on the future of grid computing in Europe and in particular the plans towards the new European Grid Initiative (EGI).

Five members of the D4Science consortium attended this international event, including the Project Director, the Technical Director, user community representatives and operational staff. They contributed to the conference agenda with 1) a Session and 2) a Demonstration.

The D4Science Training on Infrastructure and Virtual Organisations Management will take place at ESA/ESRIN premises on the 7-8-9 October 2009.

The 3-day event will cover all steps required for the creation of a distributed e-Infrastructure, starting from basic machine resources deployment to the instantiation of a Virtual Research Environment.

From monitoring fishing stocks, to forecasting weather conditions, to mitigating the after-effects of earthquakes, the Earth and Environmental Sciences are a hot spot of research within the grid computing community. During this week’s Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) conference in Barcelona, this community will share the latest advances in their work.
Read the complete EGEE'09 News release on http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=61163&CultureCode=en

Two project members of the D4Science communities, Marc Taconet and Nicolas Bailly, attended the annual FishBase Consortium meeting, hosted by FAO from 7 to 9 September 2009. As part of this meeting, a traditional half-day symposium provided opportunities to FishBase members and the host organization to present the status, issues and prospects related to aquatic animals biology, ecology and biodiversity information.

The 2009 Fishbase consortium meeting was held in FAO.

The consortium meets once a year. Half-day was dedicated to a mini-symposium providing opportunity to Fishbase members and the host organization to present status, issues and prospects related to aquatic animals biology, ecology and biodiversity information.

Next week D4Science will actively participate in the EGEE’09 Conference and will present a demo on ‘A Virtual Research Environment for Species Distribution Map Generation and Management’.

In avant-première, have a look at the AquaMaps VRE demo video prepared for this occasion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhPISI-9O9A. The demo session will take place on Monday 21 September 2009 at 19:00.