mARS.biodiversity.aq
SCAR OSC session: AntECO Microbes, Diversity and Ecological Roles
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abstract
submission deadline:14 February 2014
http://www.scar2014.com/call-for-abstracts/
Convenors:
Prof. Alison
Murray, DRI, USA
Prof. Nils
Chr. Stenseth, University of Oslo, Norway
Dr. Ian
Hawes, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
The mARS (Microbial Antarctic Resource System) workshop was organised in Brussels, BELGIUM, and was hosted by the Marine Biology lab at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
You can download the report here.
mARS organized an information workshop in the framework of the SCAR
Open Science Conference, to inform the microbiologists community
about the concept underlaying the initiative. Alison Murray and
Bruno Danis gave presentations to inform the audience about the
scope and potential of the project. These presentations are
available on
Slideshare.
A good consensus was reached during the meeting about the approach
and the shaping of the mARS system.
Another mARS meeting took place in Brussels, to wrapup the White
Paper on mARS and start collecting feedback from the community
before the project is validated and starts building the initial
content.
We would like the process to be transparent and participative, so
we are now welcoming comments on the White Paper, through
a dedicated blog.
The first MARS workshop was organized in Brussels, BELGIUM, and was
hosted by the Belgian Science Policy Office (
BELSPO). The main objective of
the meeting was to develop the initial design of MARS as an
information system dedicated to facilitate the discovery, access
and analysis of molecular microbial diversity (meta)data generated
by Antarctic researchers.
The MARS workshop gathered 18 participants from different
backgrounds (Microbiologists, Programme Managers, IT specialists,
Biodiversity Informatics specialists,...). A full list of MARS
participants can be found
here.
Get the report
here.