Waves of Resonance: An artistic journey with LifeWatch Belgium’s ocean data
Acoustic equipment being retrieved with VLIZ acoustic team, North Sea, 2024 © John Janssens & Elise Guillaume

Waves of Resonance: An artistic journey with LifeWatch Belgium’s ocean data

Waves of Resonance is a sound project by artist Elise Guillaume, initiated during the European Marine Board’s EMBracing the Ocean artist-in-residence programme under the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. She collaborated with Clea Parcerisas (LifeWatch Belgium) and Marine Severin (VLIZ) to explore the psychological impact of marine sounds. LifeWatch Belgium played a key role by providing unique underwater sound data from its observatory in the Belgian part of the North Sea.
WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2023
WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2023

WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2023

As for previous years, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has again released its annual list of the top-ten marine species described by researchers during the past year to coincide with World Taxonomist Appreciation Day on March 19th!
New release of the Bio-Oracle dataset v3
New release of the Bio-Oracle dataset v3

New release of the Bio-Oracle dataset v3

Bio-Oracle provides environmental data of the world ocean for present and future climate change scenarios. These data are mainly used by Lifewatch users to link biodiversity occurrence data to environmental conditions and predict the future distribution of marine species. The new version offers increased spatial and temporal resolution.
Call for nominations for the WoRMS Top-Ten Marine Species of 2023
Call for nominations for the WoRMS Top-Ten Marine Species of 2023

Call for nominations for the WoRMS Top-Ten Marine Species of 2023

Once again taxonomists have continued to publish many wonderful new species throughout the last year. As we approach the end of 2023 it is time to think about nominations for The WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species of 2023!
Promoting microbial culture collections with mars.biodiversity.a
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Promoting microbial culture collections with mars.biodiversity.a

Microbial cultures are crucial in expanding our understanding of the ecology, biochemical functioning and the evolutionary relations among Bacteria, Archaea and unicellular Eukaryota. This user story describes how we used the microbial Antarctic Resource System (mARS), hosted at biodiversity.aq, to...

The LifeWatch ERIC BEeS: abstract book, video recordings and more!
The LifeWatch ERIC BEeS: abstract book, video recordings and more!

The LifeWatch ERIC BEeS: abstract book, video recordings and more!

The LifeWatch ERIC family met again, for the first time in four years, at the "BEeS" Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference. It took place in Seville from 22 - 24 May, on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity. Explore the abstract book, watch the video of the live-streamed round table, and download the presentations!
WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2022
WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2022

WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2022

As for previous years, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has again released its annual list of the top-ten marine species described by researchers during the past year to coincide with World Taxonomist Appreciation Day on March 19th!
Call for Abstracts: The LifeWatch ERIC BEeS Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference
Call for Abstracts: The LifeWatch ERIC BEeS Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference

Call for Abstracts: The LifeWatch ERIC BEeS Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference

Roll up, roll up! Abstracts are now open for the LifeWatch ERIC "BEeS” Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference “Threats and challenges to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation from an eScience perspective”, which is scheduled to coincide with Biodiversity Day 2023.