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all in a day’s work for Benjamin Pfeil and his data group at the University of Bergen. </p> <div class="field field-name-field-uib-main-media field-type-file field-label-hidden field-wrapper description"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><div id="file-153235" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg"> <div class="content"> <picture >  <source srcset="https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main_wide_1x/public/media/goal_of_month_unai_june_2020_article_1_photo.jpg?itok=YQk20zbR&timestamp=1591594946 1x" media="(min-width:1152px)" /> <source srcset="https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main_mobile_1x/public/media/goal_of_month_unai_june_2020_article_1_photo.jpg?itok=sUDUclh6&timestamp=1591594946 1.5x, https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/styles/content_main_mobile_1x/public/media/goal_of_month_unai_june_2020_article_1_photo.jpg?itok=sUDUclh6&timestamp=1591594946 1x, 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class="field-name-field-uib-description field"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">OCEAN CLIMATE NEXUS: Reporting on data to indicate changes in ocean acidification is a central part of Benjamin Pfeil’s work.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-uib-owner field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix field-wrapper"> <div class="field-label">Photo: </div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even">Jens Helleland Ådnanes. UiB</div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="content-main-wrapper"> <h2 class="element-invisible">Main content</h2> <div class="region region-content"> <div id="block-system-main" class="block block-system"> <div class="content"> <div id="node-136393" class="node node-uib-article clearfix"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-uib-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden field-wrapper"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><div class="article-info"><span class="uib-news-byline">By <span class="uib-author"><a href="/en/persons/Sverre.Ole.Dr%C3%B8nen">Sverre Ole Drønen</a></span></span><span class="uib-date-info">Updated: 08.07.2020 (First published: 29.06.2020)</span></div><ul><li><em>In a series of articles, United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) presents ocean science from the University of Bergen, its Hub institution for SDG 14: Life below water </em>in the <em>Sustainable Ocean Series. This is the fourth and final article in the series.</em></li></ul><p>In 2005, <a href="https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Gerrit.Benjamin.Pfeil">Benjamin Pfeil</a> started to specialise in data management for marine biogeochemistry data in the field of climate research at the <a href="https://www.bjerknes.uib.no/en" target="_blank">Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research</a> at the University of Bergen.</p><h3>Data to support science</h3><p>His group reports specifically on ocean acidification and this directly supports science on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target 14.3: minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels.</p><p>“Target 14.3 of SDG14 has its main focus on ocean acidification where access to high quality marine carbon data is key,” explains Pfeil, “our community works and collaborates on a global basis and I got involved in global data synthesis especially for high quality marine carbon dioxide data. Over the years we established the Bjerknes Climate Data Centre.”</p><h3>Part of global network</h3><p>The centre has a close connection to the global scientific and data management community.</p><p>“I was invited by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) to join the group to define the methodology for the SDG target since most data centres do not focus on data related to this target.”</p><p>Pfeil’s group and other select institutions are responsible for marine carbon data management for the European Research Infrastructure Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) and responsible for marine carbon data within Copernicus Marine Environmental Monitoring Services.</p><p>In 2012, Pfeil became a member of the committee for the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project and soon after for the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network – both of which are organised directly under IOC-UNESCO.</p><h3>Developing quality software</h3><p>“Many assume that for the SDG targets access to publications is enough, but you have to follow the methodology and direct data access is key to understanding complex relations, patterns and principles. Our job is to make data easily accessible and usable without losing any information,” says Pfeil.</p><p>His team and other laboratories have collected global carbon data, which is then reported to the programme International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE), which was established by IOC-UNESCO in 1961. This is an elaborate system with data flow systems based on globally set guidelines, including being able to compare ocean development in different parts of the world, which is then coordinated in the Global Ocean Observing Systems (GOOS), a collaboration for ocean observations.</p><p>“One of our tasks is to develop quality software to improve automatization of the flow of data. We work with partners globally,” says Pfeil, “observational climate data is moving towards <em>Big Data</em> and one advantage of our work is to structure heterogenous data and make it machine readable. Machine readability is the basis for machine learning, or artificial intelligence (AI), which is essential to handle growing data inventories.”</p><h3>A showcase of what can be done</h3><p>The data handled by Pfeil’s group and the global data network provides both scientists and policymakers with essential information for a sustainable ocean, and IOC-UNESCO is publishing a report based on the data in June 2020.</p><p>As the world approaches the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, which kicks off in 2021, the need for this data is stronger than ever. Pfeil works with the University of Bergen’s <a href="https://www.uib.no/en/sdgbergen/117161/research-and-science-diplomacy-sdg-bergen-science-advice">SDG Bergen Science Advice</a> and <a href="https://www.uib.no/en/ocean">Ocean Sustainability Bergen</a> to provide data and research-based knowledge for the decade, including a contribution to the SDG Bergen Policy Briefs with recommendations for target 14.3.</p><p>“Our data management work already covers more than just one SDG target, but is a good showcase of what can be done. Not the least it shows possibilities for other marine communities at the University of Bergen and in the overall Bergen science community on what they can contribute with,” says Benjamin Pfeil.</p></div></div></div><div class=" group-article-sidebar field-group-div"><div class="group-event-info"></div><div class="field field-name-field-uib-fact-box field-type-text-long field-label-hidden field-wrapper"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><h3><strong>FACTS</strong></h3><h4><strong>Benjamin Pfeil</strong></h4><ul><li>Data manager at the University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research</li><li>Background in geography, geology and biology</li><li>Has a major focus on the combination of geographical information systems and scientific databases</li><li>Between 2001-2005 he was a scientific data manager at the data publisher PANGAEA in Bremen, Germany</li><li>Has worked on ocean climate science in Bergen since 2005.</li><li>The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research is a joint venture between the University of Bergen, NORCE Research Institute, the Institute of Marine Research and the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre.</li></ul><h4><strong>Global data partners</strong></h4><ul><li>The Bjerknes Climate Data Centre has Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in the US and PANGAEA in Germany. 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