2025-11-11_ecology.md

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layout: event

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# Description of your event
title: Galaxy Ecology training and collabroation fest
description: |
  As colleagues from CCAMLR / Antarctica conservation from Belgium are coming to Concarneau marine station to work on Galaxy Ecology use in their projects, we propose to create an open event, where colleagues from CCAMLR / Antarctica conservation from UK, New Zealand and others are interested to participate remotely, so people wanted to learn how to use and contribute to Galaxy Ecology European Platform during these 3 days.
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# Tags to help users find your event. Tag with a topic id to have it show op on the topic community page
tags:
- ecology

# Practical Information
date_start: 2025-11-25
date_end: 2025-11-27 #

cost: free #
audience: This event is intended for any scientist interesting in ecology data analysis and notably biodiversity indicator production. Regarding remote participation can be complicated, maybe only some part of the event will be open to remote participation (as a minimum the tuesday morning and beginning of afternoon).
contact_email: [e-mail]
async: false
mode: hybrid

registration:
  link: "mailto:[email protected]"
  deadline: 2025-11-20
  open: yes

# Location of the event
# For online events, just the 'name' is enough
location:
  name: Concarneau marine station and online   # can be e.g. "Online" for online
  address: quai de la croix
  city: Concarneau
  country: France
  #region: # optional
  postcode: 29900
  geo:
    lat: 47.86846
    lon: -3.91699


# People involved, organisers, speakers, funders, etc
# Must be defined in CONTRIBUTORS.yaml file
contributions:
  organisers:
  - yvanlebras
  instructors:
  - PaulineSGN
  funding:
  - pndb


# Galaxy and other infrastructure that will be used for your event.
# This will be used to create the setup instructions for participants
infrastructure:
  tiaas: true    # tiaas = Training Infrastructure as a Service, and can be requested (for free) from all major Galaxies

  servers:
    - server: https://usegalaxy.eu
      name: Galaxy EU
      tiaas_link: https://usegalaxy.eu/join-training/smorgasbord3

  custom:  # optional, any other setup instructions you want to add to the "Setup" tab
    description: |
      Before joining the course, please make sure to:
        - Do the [Intro to Galaxy](http://training.galaxyproject.org/topics/introduction/tutorials/galaxy-intro-short/tutorial.html) tutorial if you are not yet familiar with Galaxy

# Program of your course
# Add GTN tutorials by supplying the topic and tutorial name
# For non-GTN sessions, add a "type:custom" session and description
program:
  - section: "Tuesday: Introduction"  # section title is optional
    description: |
      Galaxy platform and Galaxy Ecology introduction
    tutorials:
      - type: custom
        name: Galaxy & Galaxy Ecology introduction
        time: "10:30 - 12:30"
      - type: custom
        name: Lunch
        time: "12:30 - 14h:00"
      - type: custom
        name: How we can contribute code to Galaxy
        time: "14:00 - 15:00"
        description: |
          the "classical" way" (Pauline) & the "Jupyter notebook way" (Arthur)
      - type: custom
        name: Coffee break
        time: "15:00 - 15h:30"
      - type: custom
        name: collaboration fest / hackathon
        time: "15:30 - 18:00"

  - section: "Wednesday: Hack!"
    description: |
      Galaxy platform and Galaxy Ecology hackathon/collaboration fest
    tutorials:
      - type: custom
        name: collaboration fest / hackathon
        time: "9:30 - 18:00"

  - section: "thursday: Hack again!"
    description: |
      Galaxy platform and Galaxy Ecology hackathon/collaboration fest
    tutorials:
      - type: custom
        name: collaboration fest / hackathon
        time: "9:30 - 12:30"

---

Since 2023, Galaxy Ecology initiative was joined by french Museum of Natural History (MNHN) and National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) colleagues working on Antarctica conservation notably through the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) organization. Thanks to 2 years developping tools, workflows and training tutorials as methodologies to facilitate scientific cooperation in such Antarctica context, we now can provides production services thanks to the European Galaxy instance and more than other, feedbacks on works done and benefits to go towards FAIRization of analytical processes to help conservtion of nature, in Antarctica but more broadly. This work is integrated as a pillar of the PNDB (Biodiversity data hub of Data Terra research infrastructure) EBV (Essential Biodiveristy Variables) operationalization pilot for GEO BON using the Galaxy platform to create EBV computational workflows (ie computational workflows allowing to create biodiversity metrics / indicators from raw datasets).