Environmental Monitoring

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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

The 1st “D4Science World User meeting” will be held from 25-26 November 2009 in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations headquarters (Rome, Italy). It will host an international audience and distinguished guest speakers from the scientific and user communities.

The objectives of the meeting are to:

• Follow up on opportunities and innovative projects implementing advanced e Infrastructures for multi-disciplinary scientific communities;
• Share experiences, best practices and discuss the most recent advances in e Infrastructures with emphasis on how to exploit possible synergies;
• Showcase the latest D4Science experiences in building dynamic monitoring progress reports, and the most recent results in harmonisation and combination of distributed structured data sources for generation of enhanced indicators;
• Identify the perspectives of the user communities and discuss the road map for D4Science-II Virtual Research Environments.

Participation in the meeting is by invitation only. However, open applications might be considered, depending on the availability of seats.

For further information: http://www.d4science.eu/worldusermeeting