Laboratoire International Associé (2014 - 2018)

Une plateforme collaborative de recherche et d’observation de la zone critique en

Méditerranée

Mutualiser  les  moyens  &  les  compétences  pour  développer    une  réponse  transdisciplinaire  aux  ques7ons  environnementales    

Mener  simultanément:  Observa2on,  Recherche,  Forma2on  et  Valorisa2on  en  Environnement,    sensibilisa2on  au  développement  durable  

Accompagner  des  équipes  de  recherches  dans  l’observa2on  du  milieu  et  notamment  de  la  zone  cri2que  ,  partager  et  pérenniser  les  données    

 Coordonner  des  ins2tu2ons  privées  et  publiques  et  cons2tuer  un  groupe  d'exper2se  partagée  et  de  lobbying:  construire  une  communauté  

 

Conduire  des  services  d’observa2on  :  instrumenter,  équiper,  contribuer  au  fonc2onnement  et  au  suivi  des  sites  Construire  des  bases  de  données  environnementales    Faciliter  l’échange  physique  et  scien2fique    notamment  à  travers  des  services  web  innovants  Valoriser  les  données  et  la  recherche  environnementale  auprès  des  scien2fiques,  des  poli2ques  publiques  et  du  grand  public,  pour  favoriser  une  démarche  concertée  vers  le  développement  durable  Assurer  la  veille,  la  prospec2on  et  le  proposi2on  pour  des  appels  à  projets    

Ac#on  1.  Mutualisa2on  des  moyens  techniques  et  scien2fiques  pour  les  observa2ons  en  environnement  Ac#on  2.  Bancarisa2on  des  données  et  de  leur  valorisa2on  

Bancarisa2on  des  données  de  la  recherche  et  partage  de  l’informa2on  vers  les  porteurs  d’ejeux  

 Ac#on  3.  Sou2en  à  la  forma2on  pour  et  par  la  recherche  Ac#on  4.  Ac2ons  de  réseautage:  ou2ls  et  webservices  partagés  Ac#on  5.  Mutualisa2on  de  l'ac2on  de  veille  scien2fique  Ac#on  6.  Sou2en  aux  missions    

Ges2on  anima2on  de  l'observatoire  O-­‐LiFE  

Observation

Recherche et

dissémination

Networking

O-LiFE is providing means of mobility and shared services by : •  constructing and

feeding environmental databases

•  creating collaborative software tools

•  providing the scientific and technical support to facilitate responses from researchers to international calls for tenders

A critical zone observatory shared by Lebanon and France

Information system database Woskshops zone

Equipement Thematic sharing

tools

Water resources Potable water

Snow observatory

Natural Risks Air Quality Obs

Fishing Obs Urban Waste

Biodiversity resources

Flore Liban Observatory

Protected areas Genetic Resources

(fruit trees) Algeae

O-LiFE consortium

Founders

Partners

O-LiFE- timeline

 IRD/CNRS-L/CNRS-F dedicated financial support for structuring the O-LiFE platform Signature of letter of intent. Launching of the LIA with CNRS- IRD- UM- CNRS-L as founding members. Start of collaborative work on a selection of projets Confirmation of adhesion by all french and lebanese insitutions and official signature of the LIA  

September/October 2011

2012

2014

29 October 2015

O-LiFE financial basement: 70K€/y

•  2013- 2015 - Yearly contribution ▫  from IRD, CNRS-F and CNRS-L ▫  15 000 euros each

•  2016 - Expecting a 3000 euros contribution from universities to be directly dedicated to

support O-LIFE research teams within each insitution

O-LiFE’s achievements

•  Website and facebook page

•  Calendar (booking common tools, events, opportunities…)

•  CV bank

Networking tools

Scientific Outputs

Research Tools

•  Simple and standardized field data collection

•  Online/offline field data collection tools

•  Online Library •  Compiling and

restructuring all existing references on O-LiFE thematics (building on INCAM output)

•  Publishing through a single accessible library (O-LiFE website)

•  Research equipment •  Supporting drafting for

answers to international calls •  Structuring mixed research

teams

SHARED SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

•  Towards a yearly Environmental bulletin

•  Defining common environnmental variables (notably EBV)

•  Collecting data to define environmental benchmarks in Lebanon

•  Fundamental information technology research on environmental databases

•  PhD thesis •  Tailoring an IDS adapted to

multithematic and multistakeholder data

•  Partnership re-enforcement • Fostering common publication

TOOLS FOR A

BETTER SHARING

54 contributions

Collaborative research activities

16 scientific articles

10 Posters

20 oral communications

4 Séminars 4 international

calls

OC- -2015 THIS IS AN O-LiFE CONTRIBUTION NUMBER SA- -2015 P- - 2015

Observation

Defining common Key Environmental variables •  2 global workshops •  A common methodology

A KEV Table with 4 dimensions: •  Thematic: ▫  Biodiversity ▫  Water ▫  Soil/sediments ▫  Environemental risk ▫  Uses and practices

•  Media ▫  Continental

�  fresh water �  terrestrial

▫  Marine �  coastal �  Offshore

•  Specific media variables : ▫  Protected areas ▫  Urban systems ▫  Agrosystèmes

•  Structure et functionning variable ▫  State variables ▫  Functionning variables

Co-observing : Defining common Key Environmental variables

    Fresh  water   Terrestrial   Coastal   Offshore  Biodiversity     Assessment  of  species  

Biodiversity  index  (Alpha/beta/gamma  diversity),  ,  

distribution,  endemism  Conservation  status  IUCN  redlist,  protected  species,  patrimonial  species,  umbrella  

species    

Ecosystem  functioning  functional  diversity,  keystone  

species  

Assessment  of  species  Biodiversity  index  

(Alpha/beta/gamma  diversity),  ,  distribution,  endemism  

Conservation  status  IUCN  redlist,  protected  species,  patrimonial  species,  umbrella  

species    

Ecosystem  functioning  functional  diversity,  keystone  

species  

Assessment  of  species  Biodiversity  index  

(Alpha/beta/gamma  diversity),  ,  distribution,  endemism  

Conservation  status  IUCN  redlist,  protected  species,  patrimonial  species,  umbrella  

species    

Ecosystem  functioning  functional  diversity,  keystone  

species  

Assessment  of  species  Biodiversity  index  

(Alpha/beta/gamma  diversity),  ,  distribution,  

endemism  Conservation  status  

IUCN  redlist,  protected  species,  patrimonial  

species,  umbrella  species    

Ecosystem  functioning  functional  diversity,  

keystone  species  Water   Surface  water,  

subsurface,  ground  water    Precipitations  (dry  and  wet  deposition)    

Composition  Physical    Chemical  Biological  

Quantity  Input  

Output  (e.g.  Evaporation/evapotranspiration)  

Discharge  Storage  

Quality  for  potable  water  

  Composition  Physical    Chemical  Biological  

Water  masses  and  circulation    Undersea  springs:  Quantity  

Input  Output  

Discharge  

 

Soil/sediments       Composition  Physical:  texture  (inc.  

granulometry  stoniness),  agregation,  horizons  (horiz/vert),  

mineralogy,  conductivity,    humidity,  age  

Chemical  pH,  mineralogy,  key  elements  (Fe,  

N,  Na,  C,  P,  Ca,  Mg,  K,  Si…),  organic  content,  elements  

mobility,  see  FAO  standards  Biological  

Macro/Microbiological  diversity  (species,  DNA)  

 

Composition  Physical:  texture  (inc.  

granulometry  stoniness),  agregation,  horizons  (horiz/vert),  

mineralogy,  conductivity,    humidity,  age  

Chemical  pH,  mineralogy,  key  elements  (Fe,  

N,  Na,  C,  P,  Ca,  Mg,  K,  Si…),  elements  mobility,  organic  

content  Biological  

Macro/Microbiological  diversity  (species,  DNA)  

 

 

Sharing and easying data collection: carnet de terrain en ligne:

Determine important plant areas

Online notebook

•  Online Observations and images •  GIS attribute tables made available for species recognition

Sharing and easying data collection: Online applications

“Nature I-Spot” Fauna android application : a new phone application for nature fans to post and share their field experience Science at Hand Reach for free Objectives

•  bring science to people in an easy, friendly and interactive way •  valorize the urging use of internet and phone applications to allow

people experiencing and sharing real life nature experiences •  create a collaborative science platform in an easy effortless way •  promote nature and wildlife conservation through social media tools •  create an enriched database on biodiversity (fauna and flora) in Lebanon

•  act as pertinent tool for surveying and monitoring key indicator species of environmental changes.

Challenges Linkage to existing fauna and flora databases in Lebanon that are actually not accessible by Android phone applications, in order to increase the accuracy of species identification and Further activate biodiversity research engines.

Data

Advantages of the Environmental Database

Approach 1.  Planned data redundancy 2.  Improved data consistency 3.  Improved data sharing 4.  Enforcement of standards 5.  Improved data quality 6.  Improved data accessibility 7.  Improved decision support

IDS multi agents multithematic Data Challenges

1.  Dispersed 2.  Not updated 3.  Not published 4.  Not accessible to public 5.  Non secured 6.  Non shared 7.  Lack of Storage 8.  Lack of computational

resources

Processus ETL

L’aide à la décision

Online applications MedProtect

A decision support tool to orient - Protected Areas designation- in Lebanon and the Mediterranean

Input o  It is based on a multiple choice questions to answer o  The more questions we answer the more

pertinent is the data analysis Output o  Different conservation options (protected areas types) o  Hierarchy of choices

Ø  Percentage of pertinence for each category Ø  Number of constraints per choice

Challenges Ø Data availability to answer the indicators Ø Application restricted to the Mediterranean continental ecosystems

Making links: Building a community

O-LiFE Website

www.olife.org Under construction

O-LiFE in social media

the O-LiFE Facebook page is: v  initiated early 2015

v daily updated with the latest lebanese, mediterranean and worldwide environmental news

v Dedicated mainly to increase the plateform’s outputs visibility

https://www.facebook.com/pages/O-Life/1560794134208217?fref=ts 331 likers

O-LiFE online library

•  It aims at developing a tool revolving around biodiversity, water and environmental management for the Lebanese territory.

•  The main objective of this initiative is to gather the environmental data in an

easy access free database regularly updated to meet the standards of the general public.

•  We hope that the amateur and scientists will find accurate and sufficient

information to fulfill their needs

IS CURRENTLY BEING DONE IN POSSIBLEPARTNERSHIP WITH MoE

O-LiFE online Library

Building networks:

PERSPECTIVES FOR 2016….. 2017

•  Definition of key variables: finalize KEV to be collected ▫  Organize two workshops

�  Beirut : Finalize and agree on shared Key Environmental variables between Lebanon/France �  Tunisia: Defining shared Key Environmental Variables shared between Lebanon/France/Tunisia

▫  Collect, gather and format Existing KEV from Lebanon ▫  Start populating the Environmental database for the selected KEV

•  Implementing common working sites ▫  Identify and start equipping a common pilot site for long term observatio

•  Achieve and develop the onfield and online tools ▫  I Spot Nature : fauna online application ▫  Med Protect : Protected Areas application ▫  Sustain the online Library : populate and update the database

•  Sustain the O-LiFE mission of networking ▫  website by developing its communication material

A primary goal: to go from theory to practice: settling of an operational observatory

And beyond… NEMO Network of Environmental Mediterranean Observatories

O-LiFE as a germ for the development of mediterranean observatories network for ▫  Sharing common variables with French observatories through the

LIA ▫  Extending collection and sharing of common variables around the

Mediterranean

Using O-LiFE as a tool of sharing, educating and co-constructing with/toward:

▫  civil society ▫  Urban communalities ▫  Socio economic actors ▫  Other observatories around the Mediterranean

Les  observatoires,  ou2ls  indispensables  de  la  compréhension  des  milieux  et  des  mécanismes  Objets  embléma2ques  à  co-­‐construire,  avec  tous  les  acteurs  impliqués:  scien2fiques,  société  civile,  décideurs…  Leur  cons2tu2on  étant  un  défi  en  soi,  une  démarche  commune  «  objet  d’étude  social  »  s’impose  Une  démarche  fondamentalement  •  partagée  •  pluridisciplinaire  •  embléma2que  du  développement  durable  

 Les  observatoires  sont  des  objets  fron2ères  à  l’interface  entre  les  sciences  de  la  société  et  la  science  de  l’environnement,  dédiés  a  comprendre  le  milieu  et  répondre  à  des  ques2ons  de  «  développement  durable  »  

O-­‐LiFE:  une  plateforme  de  recherche  collabora2ve,  premier  pas  vers  une  coopéra2on  renforcée  entre  l’entreprise  et  la  recherche  publique  en  environnement  

La  première  brique  d’un  réseau  euroméditerranéen  d’observatoires  de  la  «  zone  cri2que  à  la  vie  »  

 

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