Developments of data infrastructures and services for understanding the ocean ecosystem and for supporting marine stakeholders in Spain

Ocean observations are acquired from a great variety of platforms at different spatial and temporal scales. Additionally, a great number of physical, chemical, geological and biological variables need to be measured to characterise and understand ocean dynamics and the ocean ecosystem. Developing robust infrastructures that facilitate the search and access to diverse oceanographic data becomes essential to be able to use ocean observations for increasing our knowledge of ocean dynamics and of the ocean ecosystem and for producing information, services and products to support the great diversity of marine stakeholders.

In this communication, we will present recent developments of data infrastructures and data services at the the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC) in the framework of different national and international funded projects (DEMON, Oceans+, iFADO, DATAMARE...). IEO was founded in 1914 and focuses its activity on oceanography and marine research for different marine stakeholders and to provide scientific advice to the government to support the implementation of marine related policies. IEO is part of the National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODC) network, which adhere to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) to ensure standardized data management and global exchange of ocean data. In this contribution we will focus on our recent developments of standard catalogues using open-source tools like GeoNetwork and we will show how this approach has enabled IEO to organise and present a vast catalogue of oceanographic data and of data services that disseminate marine data sets following FAIR principles. Proper hierarchization ensure that users (individuals or data hubs) can navigate the IEO catalogue effectively, taking advantage of the search capabilities to access data for research and applications. Different examples of access to multidisciplinary data sets obtained with different ocean observing platforms will be provided. In addition, we will show how the ocean data stored at IEO can be catalogued to support the implementation of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).

Finally, we will present the integrated marine data platform being developed by the EU funded Galician Marine Sciences Program by different academic and research actors in Galicia (CESGA, CSIC, MeteoGalicia, INTECMAR, CETMAR and universities of Santiago and Coruña) with the objective of demonstrating the improvement in the management of marine data using supercomputing technologies (High Performance Computing, HPC). We will show practical examples of how access and processing of multidisciplinary marine data sets can be performed in the infrastructure in a powerful, standardized, fast and simple way.