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We are currently conducting a survey aiming to identify key challenges scientists encounter when working on scientific workflows. As part of this research project we are developing a framework designed to streamline and facilitate the execution of these workflows. Consequently, your feedback will help us quantify the key issues this framework must address to provide maximum benefit to its future users.

As part of the reintroduction program for the northern bald ibis, Helena accompanied the birds to their winter quarters as their foster mother. Over many weeks, she got the animals used to her, and they then followed her ultralight aircraft south. She knows each bird by name, and when they were released into the wild, she was both happy and sad.

Through this survey we gained insight into the use of different earth observation exploitation platforms that are used for EO data downloading, processing and analyses. Additionally, we retrieved information about the use of different types of EO data, EO sensors used, specific satellites used and auxiliary data, e.g. weather and animal movement data.

Prof. Samuel Kounev delivered a Keynote on “Serverless Scientific Workflow Engineering for Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Observation and Computational Ecology” at the 21st IEEE International Conference on eScience. Chicago, September 15-18, 2025. The slides are available online (Password: eScience25).

The extreme conditions of polar and mountain regions foster uniquely adapted wildlife. We reviewed 145 SCI-journal publications between 2000 and 2024 and examine how Earth observation is used in wildlife ecology research in these regions.