The overall objective of LifeWatchGreece project is to develop the Greek LifeWatch Research Infrastructure and to establish it as the biodiversity Centre of Excellence for South-eastern Europe. LifeWatchGreece hosts a large and continuously updated database with biodiversity data collected from monitoring projects throughout the country and the Mediterranean (MedOBIS), which are published on its Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) and are harvested by central OBIS. The LifeWatchGreece project aims to: 1) ally all the Greek scientific human potential working on biodiversity data and data observatories, in the country and abroad; 2) pave the way for the development of complex virtual domains through a number of background e-Services which facilitate both the data contributors and users; 3) develop a number of virtual labs (vLabs) where large scale science can be carried out at all possible levels of the biological organization from molecules to ecosystems, which are available to scientists, environmental managers and policy makers; 4) build capacity at the national level through a network of activities, including human potential mobilization, supporting and promoting the use of the Infrastructure, and enhancing organizational development; and 5) disseminate information, scientific knowledge and experience gained to the public and to liaise the Network's ideas and practices to the activities of targeted groups and of the society at large.

• Ecosystems
• Mediterranean
• biodiversity
• GOOS Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs)
  • Fish abundance and distribution
  • Hard coral cover and composition
  • Invertebrate abundance and distribution
  • Macroalgal canopy cover and composition
  • Seagrass cover and composition
• GOOS Readiness - Data management and information products
  • Level 6 - Operational
• GOOS Readiness - Coordination of observations elements
  • Level 6 - Operational
• GOOS Readiness - Requirement processes
  • Level 6 - Operational
• Essential Ocean subvariables (EOV subvariables) & Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs)
  • Fish community composition - community abundance
  • Hard coral community composition - community abundance
  • Invertebrate abundance
  • Invertebrate community composition - community abundance
  • Invertebrate community composition - taxonomic/phylogenetic diversity
  • Macroalgae community composition - community abundance
• GOOS Physics, Biogeochemistry, and Cross-disciplinary EOVs
  • Dissolved organic carbon
  • Nutrients
  • Oxygen
  • Particulate matter
  • Sea surface temperature