Nowadays, sensors, simulations and lab experiments are producing increasingly large quantities of data, many tools are available to elaborate and analyse them in often fragmented stand-alone systems that may hinder collaboration and comprehensive understanding.
e-Infrastructures and Virtual Research Environments (VREs) allow researchers located in different places world-wide to collaborate in national and international projects from their home institutions. They rely on digital services enabling collaborations among researchers providing shared access to unique or distributed scientific facilities, including data, instruments, computing and communications.
VREs are revolutionising the way research is conducted by providing a cohesive ecosystem where researchers, often from multiple disciplines, can manage the entire research lifecycle, from data collection and analysis to publication and sharing, in the spirit of Open Science principles.
This session aims to bring together case studies and innovative approaches from the different domains of the earth sciences, both from a technology point of view, and scientific applications based on workflows, virtual laboratories and even digital twins of (parts of) the environment. We seek contributions from all disciplines of the earth sciences that faced the different aspects related to e-infrastructures and VREs. These can range from the implementation of systems from an IT point of view to analysis tools, research software in applications, data being used and collected, modelling practices, but also policies and semantic approaches for VRE and digital infrastructure utilisation. Contributions can highlight scientific results, best practices and lessons learned.