Galaxy for Earth System Science: Integrating Data, Tools, and Training for Open Science

The Earth System is a complex and dynamic system that encompasses the interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, land, and biosphere. Galaxy is an open, comprehensive, and sustainable web platform for understanding and analyzing data from the Earth System sciences, which is essential, for example, to study the impacts of climate change.

Therefore, Galaxy can be used as an IT toolkit for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies with a set of tools for data visualization, analysis, and processing across various scientific fields such as oceanographic, atmospheric, land sciences, and more. By design, Galaxy manages data by sharing and publishing results, workflows, and visualizations, ensuring reproducibility by capturing the necessary information to repeat and understand data analyses. Thus, Galaxy for the Earth System sciences aim at directing users toward standardized tools that can be plugged into cross-domains workflows.

Fully integrated into the work area, the Galaxy Training network (available at training.galaxyproject.org) is an initiative that aims at making the Galaxy platform accessible to a wide audience by providing free and open educational resources. It offers an extensive collection of detailed and reviewed tutorials authored by administrators, developers, and scientists. These tutorials serve as valuable resources for individuals seeking to learn how to navigate Galaxy, employ specific functionalities like tools or execute workflows for specific analyses. By mixing trainings and tools in the same friendly user webapp, Galaxy is a tool perfectly suited for open science.

As part of the FAIR-EASE project, we have deployed a Galaxy adaptation for Earth System studies (earth-system.usegalaxy.eu) with dedicated models, data, tools and data visualisation.  We want to use this opportunity to present during your session a set of workflows and trainings mixing in-situ and biogeochemical ocean data, atmospheric volcanoes data, and marine biodiversity data. Our goal is to showcase the possibility to have multiple scientific domains studied and visualise several data types of the same geographical area in one virtual research environment.