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Four new marine biodiversity monitoring datasets have been published by EMODnet Biology due to the work done by the Horizon Europe funded DTO-B

DTO-BioFlow is actively contributing to the Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Harmonisation, launched by the European Commission at the initiative of the Joint Research Centre. On November 6-7, 2024,(Sitges, Spain) DTO-BioFlow participated in the second EU Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Workshop, represented by key project partners such as ICES, CIIMAR and the Marine Biological Association (MBA).

This interview is part of a series featuring the nine winners selected during the first DTO-BioFlow Open Call. In this interview, Roseanna Wright, marine data manager at the National Oceanographic Centre, discusses the impact of their winning project, “Pipeline for biodiversity data from the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) to the OBIS network and EMODnet”.

This interview is part of a series featuring the nine winners selected during the first DTO-BioFlow Open Call. In this interview, Tom Moshe, a marine biologist and ecologist at the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute (IOLR), discusses the impact of their winning project, “Integration of Southeastern Mediterranean Long-Term Biodiversity Data into the EU-DTO.”

On 24 September 2024 DTO-BioFlow was highlighted in a recent episode of Euronews' Ocean documentary series and quoted by Euronews Green article as one of the projects helping to build EU's groundbreaking Digital Twin of the Ocean

Gothenburg University is pleased to announce an opening for a PhD position at the Department of Marine Science. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) and collaborate with the DTO-BioFlow project.

DTO-BioFlow’s scientific coordinator Carlota Muniz was invited to participate in a panel at the Digital Ocean Forum 2024. This high-level event was organized by the European Commission under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU on 13 June 2024, and took place at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels, Belgium.

DTO BioFlow has been invited to participate in the prestigious Digital Ocean Forum 2024, organized by the European Commission under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU. This landmark event will take place at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels, offering a hybrid format that is open to the public.

Flanders Marine Institute's InnovOcean Campus hosted an enriching and productive three-day Data Grants Holders Workshop from April 22nd to 24th, 2024.

Members of the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) participating in the DTO-BioFlow project were among the attendees at the Ocean Decade Satellite Event “Ocean Observation Stakeholders' Dialogue: Priorities & Challenges for 2030”, held in Barcelona on April 8th.

Nine projects have been selected to makepreviously inaccessible biodiversity data from a broad spectrum of sources available for long-term ingestion via EMODnet Biology.

On March 6th, 2024, the DTO-BioFlow project took part in the VLIZ Marine Science Day 2024, framing the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU and emphasizing global initiative

DTO-BioFlow was well represented at the EMODnet Open Conference 2023 in both poster and plenary sessions and with many project partners attending.

The DTO-Bioflow project has issued an Open Call for marine biodiversity data holders to provide sustained and long-term biodiversity data for the European Digital Twin of the Ocean (EU DTO). Applications are being accepted until January 17th.

DTO-BioFlow project kicked off on September 27th in Ostend, Belgium. The meeting was hosted at the InnovOcean Campus and organised by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), project's coordinator, host and technical manager of the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) portal.