On Tuesday, January 22, the IX edition of the Café con Sal lecture series began at ECIMAT. The inauguration event featured two talks: “Where do your data fit in the European marine data landscape?” delivered by Belén Martín, PhD in Oceanography from the University of Vigo and project manager at the Technological Marine Center (CETMAR), and “Ascidians under Ocean Warming and Acidification”, delivered by Tiago Repolho, postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences (MARE, University of Lisbon).
In the first talk, Belén Martín, an expert in marine networks and observatories, presented an overview of the European marine data landscape, aiming to shed some light on the complex web of initiatives, projects, funding programs, observation infrastructures, databases, and marine networks that exist, from a global to a regional scale. She focused on some of the most important European initiatives (EuroGOOS, SeaDataNet, and EMODnet) and highlighted the transboundary oceanographic observatory RAIA, where she currently works at the Technological Marine Center (CETMAR). Through her talk, Belén emphasized the importance of a shift in attitude toward research data: from “data that belong to scientists and are used to produce publications” to “data that belong to society and can serve multiple purposes,” with the goal of showing that data are not just a number in a publication, but can have broader uses and greater impact.
After the coffee break, Tiago Repolho’s lecture took place. During his talk, Tiago Repolho, who studies the biological responses of marine organisms to stress conditions, presented the effects of ocean warming and acidification on marine organisms within an interaction context (synergy, accumulation, or antagonism). In collaboration with several researchers from the Universities of Lisbon (Portugal), Gothenburg, and Uppsala (Sweden), Tiago aims to provide an integrated perspective to unravel and understand the evolutionary potential of species to adapt to the consequences of climate change, using the ascidian Ciona intestinalis as a biological model. The lecture is part of the “ASCEND” project funded by ASSEMBLE PLUS.
The lectures took place at 11:00h and 12:15h in the ECIMAT Assembly Hall and were broadcast live at http://tv.uvigo.es/es/directo/1.html, and are currently available at the following link.
