Lessons learned from the enviroGRIDS project on the Black Sea catchment
By Anthony Lehmann and enviroGRIDS consortium BSC meeting, Istanbul, October 1. 2014 Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System supporting Sustainable Development
April 2009 - March 2013
1 enviroGRIDS scenarios Integrated scenarios: Metronamica
2008 Create spatially explicit 2025 scenarios on: - Demographic Changes 2050 - Climate Changes - Land Cover Changes
Integrate the three scenarios outputs 2 enviroGRIDS MODELS WATER RESOURCES Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) Blue water resources Don NO3 Load Pivedennij Buh NO3 Load
120000 8000 100000 6000 80000
60000 4000 NO3 (Ton) NO3 NO3 (Ton) NO3 40000 2000 20000 0 0
1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998
Daniper NO3 Load Danube NO3 Load 200000 300000 150000 250000 200000 100000 150000
NO3 (Ton) NO3
50000 (Ton) NO3 100000 50000 0 0
1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998
Dnister NO3 Load Prut NO3 Load
30000 8000 25000 6000 20000
15000 4000 NO3 (Ton) NO3 NO3 (Ton) NO3 10000 2000 5000 0 0
1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998
Iznik Golu NO3 Load Kizilirmak NO3 Load
8000 10000 6000 8000 6000 4000
NO3 (Ton) NO3 4000 2000 (Ton) NO3 2000 0 0
1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 3 enviroGRIDS DATA TO enviroGRIDS geoportal at: www.envirogrids.cz
GEOPORTAL 4 enviroGRIDS enviroGRIDS GEOSS workshops
Available from web site: -Teaching material - DVD with open source packages - e-learning courses
Past workshops: Bucharest, Tbilissi, Delft, Istanbul, Sofia, Batumi, Novi Sad… Data and Metadata How should we describe our data ?
• A description of any datasets is needed in order to share it
• Metadata is often neglected
• Metadata takes a little bit of time to prepare but it is not risky to share it
• Standards exist to prepare metadata for different systems and regions (Swiss GM03, INSPIRE in Europe, ISO19115 for GEOSS,…)
• There should be no excuses for not sharing at least metadata
Ownership How can we encourage data sharing ?
• Develop a system for publishing datasets in pear reviewed and indexed journals (e.g. Earth System Science Data) • Make it compulsory in research contracts and mandate
• Realize that everybody will beneficiate more than he will loose
• Data remain in the hands of the owner who guarantees its quality
• Improving open source solutions
• Publically funded publically available !!!
Political will Do we really want to know better about the environment ? GEOSS: 88 countries + 67 organizations, voluntary basis: • full and open exchange of data, metadata recognizing relevant legislations; • data and metadata are shared with minimum time delay and cost. INSPIRE: EU Member states and beyond, Legal directive: • Data should be collected only once and kept where it can be maintained most effectively. • Geographic information needed for good governance at all levels should be readily and transparently available. • Hydrography data specification adopted; draft available for Environmental monitoring Facilities (water quality, flow) • WISE is the official gateway for water information to support the WFD National and local authorities data policies are still restrictive New ongoing projects Let’s not stop here ?
Call: ENV-2013-6.5-2: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy and Call: ENV.2013.6.5-2 Mobilising society (c) Empowering international environmental knowledge for policy economic development through the use of and society environmental Earth Observations New H2020 calls ? Let’s try to continue… WATER-4a-2014: (failed in September 2014) Harnessing EU water research and SC5-16-2014: (result in innovation results for industry, November) agriculture, policy makers and citizens Making Earth Observation and • Disseminate and exploit the results of Monitoring Data usable for previous or ongoing relevant projects ecosystem modelling and • Project the Black Sea catchment into the services… future • Case study in the Black • Extend the ICPDR know-how Eastward Sea and Danube • Evaluate water-related ecosystem services catchment • Build up a regional network to collaborate on science-based water policy development • … Selected References
Beniston, M. et al., 2012. Obstacles to data access for research related to climate and water: Implications for science and EU policy-making. Environ Sci Policy, 17: 41-48. Giuliani, G., Gorgan, D., 2013a. Editorial: EnviroGRIDS Special Issue on Building a Regional Observation System in the Black Sea catchment. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications. (accepted) Giuliani, G., Nativi, S., Lehmann, A., Ray, N., 2012. WPS mediation: an approach to process geospatial data on different computing backends. Computers and Geosciences 47:20-33 Giuliani, G., Ray, N., Lehmann, A., 2013b. Building Regional Capacities for GEOSS and INSPIRE: a journey in the Black Sea Catchment. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (accepted). Giuliani, G., Ray, N., Lehmann, A., 2011. Grid-enabled Spatial Data Infrastructure for environmental sciences: Challenges and opportunities. Future Generation Computer Systems, 27: 292-303. Lehmann, A., Giuliani, G. et al. (in prep). Filling science-policy gaps in hydrology through innovative Earth Observation solutions. Journal of Hydrology Rahman, K., Ray, N., Giuliani, G., Schwank, J., Giron, G., Escobar, R., George, C., Lehmann, A., Submitted. Breaking Walls Towards Fully Open Source Hydrological Modeling. Journal of Environmental Informatics. Ray, N., Giuliani, G., Gorgan, D., Lehmann, A., 2012. Distributed Geocomputation for Modeling the Hydrology of the Black Sea Watershed. In: Lagutov, V. (Ed.), Environmental Security in Watersheds: The Sea of Azov. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, pp. 141-157. Rouholahnejad, E, Abbaspour, KC, Vejdani, M, Srinivasan, R, Schulin, R, Lehmann, A., 2012. A parallelization framework for calibration of hydrological models. Environmental Modelling & Software, 31: 28-36.
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BSC meeting, Istanbul, 2014