Conveners
Opening Plenary
- Sinead Ryan (Trinity College Dublin)
Prof.
Manuel Heitor
(Minister of Science and Higher Education of Portugal)
09/10/2018, 09:00
Including a "first-comers" introduction to the organising RIs and DI4R
Jose Manuel Gutierrez
(CSIC and IPCC author)
09/10/2018, 09:45
Weather and climate prediction and high-performance computing have gone hand in hand in the last few decades. Current activities in this field rely on different digital infrastructures needed both for running computationally expensive global and regional climate models (HPC infrastructures), and for storing and making available the resulting scientific data and metadata (GRID infrastructures)....
Prof.
Dalia A. Conde
(Species360 CSA & CPop University of Southern Denmark)
09/10/2018, 10:30
The wealth of species in our planet is critical for our survival. However, we are losing species at a rate equivalent to a mass extinction event. During the last century, vertebrate extinction has been about 100 times higher than what would be expected during stable geological periods. Design of species conservation strategies and policies directly rely on accessible information, such as...
