TUTORIAL 7 INTRO: The Climarest Marine Restoration Digital Toolbox: An Online Decision-Support Platform
The tutorial will introduce the Marine Restoration Toolbox and provide a hands-on session on how to use its resources and tools.
Participants will first be guided through the resources available on the Marine Restoration Toolbox website, which will be hosted on Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)’s Restoration Resource Center (RRC) starting in October 2025. This will be followed by demonstrations of selected tools from the Marine Restoration Virtual Lab, which will be openly accessible via the European Open Science Cloud and Blue-Cloud 2026.
The hands-on session will show participants how to:
Substitute their own (or openly available) data into the demonstrators Run code and perform analyses using virtual machines Apply tools in alignment with best practices in marine restoration The goal of the session is to raise awareness of the Marine Restoration Toolbox and equip potential users with practical skills and resources to support informed, science-based restoration efforts.