EGI Madrid 2013 Ketil Koop-Jakobsen (project manager) and Christoph Waldmann (project coordinator) Center of Marine Environmental Sciences, MARUM Bremen, Germany "Strengthening the cooperation between the US and the EU in the field of environmental research infrastructures"

COOPEUS Background European Commission - FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES Duration: 09/2012 – 08/2015 SCOPE: Expand the transatlantic cooperation in regards to common data policies and data standards relevant to global research infrastructures in the environment field - Get more information on

EU Partners UNIVERSITAET Bremen (Uni-HB) (the Coordinator) - ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA (INGV) EISCAT SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION (EISCAT) COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (CEA) AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONESCIENTIFICAS (CSIC) KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS METEOROLOGISCH INSTITUUT (KNMI) ILMATIETEEN LAITOS (FMI) UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA (Unitus) MARINE INSTITUTE (MI) COOPEUS Consortium

Partners from USA UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (UW) WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI) THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (SCRIPPS) NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY (NEON) INCORPORATED RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS FOR SEISMOLOGY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION (IRIS) UNAVCO INC (Unavco) Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) DataONE COOPEUS Consortium

Space Weather Solid Earth dynamics Ocean observations Biodiversity Carbon observations - Thematic work:

Space Weather Solid Earth dynamics Ocean observations Biodiversity Carbon observations - Interdisciplinary work:

COOPEUS year 1: Thematic workpackages: Collaboration at many different levels depending on the maturity of the collaboration. - Status: initiated and ongoing Cross-disciplinary work: Questionnaire investigation exploring difference in standards, policies and collaborative The User-Scenarios demonstrating the benefit of cross disciplinary RI collaboration and evaluating the degree of cross collaboration possible. Status: Topics was debated, but not decide yet. Most prominent topics: I.Global Carbon Cycling II.Tsunami-wave detection III.(Global water cycling) IV.(Icelandic Volcanic eruptions Workshops, meetings, conferences: I.RI-harmonization II.PID-workshop in Bremen

Annual meeting: Next NEON, Boulder, Colorado Primary Focus: Initiation of User Scenarios COOPEUS year 2:

DoW 1 st statement about WP6: The main objectives of this work package is to identify how the EU and the US knowledge bases and services on biodiversity may contribute to new and efficient approaches to serve the biodiversity scientific user communities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and beyond. COOPEUS WP6 - Biodiversity:

COOPEUS Partners Involved environmental research infrastructures from EU and US: Eiscat (EU) – AMISR, SRI (US) Space Weather EMSO (EU) – OOI (US) Ocean observations Lifewatch (EU) – DataOne, NEON (US)Biodiversity EPOS (EU) – IRIS/UNAVCO (US) Solid Earth dynamics ICOS (EU) – NEON(US) Carbon observations

COOPEUS aims to catalyze international collaboration among environmental research infrastructures by: By easing data accessibility through harmonization of data policies By promoting interoperability of Research Infrastructures on all levels (System, syntactic, structural and sematic interoperability) By improving data and information quality by defining the minimum requirements on work-flow descriptions and on QA/QC COOPEUS Goals:

COOPEUS is based on a Bottom-up approach We build on existing infrastructures with substantial experience and ongoing collaboration with other RI. COOPEUS framework Example: An application that integrates data between event data centers and observing stations across the globe including COOPEUS partners EarthScope and EPOS

Achieving the goals 1) Investigating commonalities and difference in the data policies to formulate minimum requirements for policy harmonization. 2) Interoperability of RIs will be investigated using User scenarios simulating RI collaborations monitoring an environmental hazards/event (e.g. Volcanic eruptions, Upwelling zones). 3) Highlight topics essential RI collaboration and interoperatbility to a broader audience at Conferences, Workshops and Meetings (e.g. PID-workshop, RI- harmonization workshop) COOPEUS framework

COOPEUS main focus is on the data and information policies defining international RI collaboration COOPEUS is concerned with evaluating technical solutions, RI-architectures and e-infrastructure development COOPEUS is striving to build up on latest ideas and concepts for data infrastructures/ cyberinfrastructures by collaborating closely with parallel running projects in Europe like ENVRI, iCORDI or ODIP and EarthCube in the US COOPEUS framework

COOPEUS- connecting research infrastructures: Workflow Identify Need and Rationale Integration requirements Give recommendations for future implementation Select user scenarios Prioritize indentified challenges for future collaborations Core Standards Policies User Scenarios Legal issues