Vienna, Austria – April 30, 2025 – The FAIR-EASE project is actively participating in the EGU General Assembly 2025, convening this week in Vienna, Austria, and online from April 27th to May 2nd, 2025. The EGU General Assembly serves as a preeminent international forum for the global community of geoscientists to engage in discourse regarding cutting-edge research across the spectrum of Earth, planetary, and space sciences.
The FAIR-EASE consortium organised a well-received session entitled "Interdomain digital services for integrated use of environmental data." This session, convened by Alessandro Rizzo and co-convened by Maria-Luisa Chiusano, Christelle Pierkot, Marie Jossé, and Jérôme Détoc, addressed the critical imperatives of data accessibility and the promotion of integrated utilisation of diverse environmental datasets. The session underscored pertinent initiatives, established standards, software applications, and information technology systems that facilitate interdisciplinary environmental data science, adhering to the FAIR principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability.
The selected oral presentations for the "Interdomain digital services for integrated use of environmental data" session will be conducted on Friday, May 2nd, in Room -2.92, in a hybrid format accessible via Zoom. Commencing at 16:20 CEST, Paul Weerheim, Tjerk Krijger and colleagues will present their work on "Bridging metadata gaps for FAIR multidisciplinary data access in Virtual Research Environments - Insights from Blue-Cloud2026 and FAIR-EASE," elucidating the development of a FAIR-EASE RDF Metadata model and an Interdisciplinary Data Discovery and Access Service. Subsequently, at 17:10 CEST, Dr. Samuel Keuchkerian's team will introduce the "Enhancing Earth Science Research through the FAIR-EASE Data Lake Infrastructure: Integrating Diverse Data Sources for Advanced Computational Services." At 17:40 CEST, Dr. Simona Simoncelli and collaborators will present the "Sea Observations Utility for Reprocessing, Calibration and Evaluation (SOURCE): software update for virtual environment workflows," a significant tool for the Coastal Water Dynamics Pilot. Finally, at 17:50 CEST, Dr. Catherine Schmechtig and co-authors will present their interdisciplinary investigation, "Seizing the FAIR-EASE project interdisciplinary opportunity to investigate the Ocean Biogeochemical data in the vicinity of the 2022 record breaking Hunga Tonga Eruption."
Attendees are invited to explore the FAIR-EASE project's advancements at the on-site poster session on Friday, May 2nd, from 10:45 to 12:30 in Hall X4. Noteworthy presentations include "A flexible open brokering framework supporting distributed semantic discovery" by Dr. Enrico Boldrini and colleagues, "Assessing Warming Trends in the Mediterranean Sea: A Workflow-Based Approach" by Dr. Enrico Baglione et al., "VOLCPLUME, an interactive open access web platform for the multiscale monitoring of volcanic emissions and their impacts on the atmosphere" by Dr. Marie Boichu and collaborators, and "GALAXY as a Virtual Research Environment Advancing FAIR Principles" by Dr. Erwan Bodéré.
Furthermore, the virtual poster session on Friday, May 2nd, from 14:00 to 15:45 CEST in vPoster spot 4 will feature "Customizing Trends.Earth for land degradation assessment in the earth critical zone: a FAIR-EASE approach" by Dr. Italia Elisa Mauriello et al., "Uniform Data Access Layer: Advancing Data FAIRness in FAIR-EASE" by Dr. Jorge Mendes and Dr. Marc Portier, and "Building semantic bridges between multi-domain scientific data resources" by Dr. Alexandra Kokkinaki and co-authors.
The significant presence of FAIR-EASE at the EGU General Assembly 2025 underscores the project's unwavering commitment to the advancement of FAIR data principles and the cultivation of interdisciplinary collaboration within the Earth science community. All EGU participants are cordially invited to attend these sessions and poster presentations to gain further insight into the project's innovative solutions for the integrated utilisation of environmental data. To remain informed about FAIR-EASE activities, interested parties are encouraged to subscribe to the project newsletter and note the date for the final project event to be held in Paris this June.