JNCC will be hosting The BIG PICTURE II: Benthic Imagery Workshop 2021 on 2, 3 & 4 March 2021. The three-day workshop will bring together a wide group of stakeholders from across the marine monitoring community, and provides an opportunity to share progress; consider funding opportunities; and to discuss the challenges of innovation in benthic imagery, including the development of standards and collaborative working in the UK and beyond.
The BIG PICTURE II workshop is an online event which is being held via Microsoft Teams. Each day will run from 09:30 until 16:00 with plenty of breaks throughout. Two core sessions are being held each day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, which will include presentations delivered by key representatives from the cross-organisation collaborative working group – known as the 'Big Picture Group'.
The links for The BIG PICTURE II meeting are provided below with each day's agenda. These links will redirect you to the BIG PICTURE 'Teams' site, where members and registered participants will be able to join the meeting directly through the links. If you are not already a member of the Teams site, or have not already registered, please contact TheBigPicture@jncc.gov.uk for details.
| Tuesday 2 March 2021 | |
| 09:30–10:30 | Welcome, practicalities, working style and programme Reviewing the context and background, aims and objectives of the workshop |
| 10:30–11:00 | Tea and coffee break |
| 11:00–12:00 | Session 1: he journey from BIG PICTURE to BIAP to Big Picture Group to Project Working Groups (PWGs) |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00–15:00 | Session 2: Early successes of BIAP: Benthic imagery purposes, Quality Assurance Framework, Epifauna Identification Protocol |
| 15:00–15:30 | Tea and coffee break |
| 15:30–16:00 | Day one summaries and close |
| Wednesday 3 March 2021 | |
| 09:30–10:30 | Arrival and plan for the day |
| 10:00–12:00 | Session 3: BIAP progress in the digital realm: AI, Data flows and Catalogues |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00–15:00 | Session 4: Continual progress of BIAP in day-to-day analysis: Annotation, Identification and Enumeration |
| 15:00–15:30 | Tea and coffee break |
| 15:30–16:00 | Day two summaries and close |
| Thursday 4 March 2021 | |
| 09:30–10:30 | Arrival, recap, plan for the final day |
| 10:00–12:00 | Session 5: Training, standards and acquisition approaches for the future |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00–15:00 | Session 6: The future of The BIG PICTURE |
| 15:00–15:30 | Tea and coffee break |
| 15:30–16:00 | Workshop close |
The BIG PICTURE II is the second collaborative event to be held over the past two years. Building on the success of the first BIG PICTURE Workshop, held in March 2019, the workshop will be an opportunity to showcase some of the early achievements made in implementing the UK's Benthic Imagery Action Plan (BIAP). The Benthic Imagery Action Plan (BIAP) collates and focusses the recommendations from the first BIG PICTURE workshop into 87 work tasks, organised into seven coherent workflows. The Action Plan is endorsed by the UK's Healthy & Biologically Diverse Seas Evidence Group (HBDSEG), and progress towards it is reported to the North East Atlantic Marine Biological Analytical Quality Control Scheme (NMBAQCS).
Please contact the workshop registration team at TheBigPicture@jncc.gov.uk to register for the event. More information and joining instructions are provided in the Workshop Programme.
