Workshop EBRII: Bringing together marine biodiversity, environmental and maritime boundaries data in R

In this LifeWatch VLIZ workshop we will learn different steps in a workflow to query and combine data from European marine databases, visualize and get them ready for further analysis. We will also apply the workflow to your own datasets or research questions. As an example, we will retrieve near real time biodiversity data from the Belgian part of the North Sea (plankton, cetaceans, fish or sea birds. The species names will match to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and the dataset will be complemented with additional data from the European Ocean Biodiversity Information System (EurOBIS) and environmental data from Bio-Oracle. We will demonstrate how to apply the same methodology to other species and other Marine Regions, to end up with an analysis-ready dataset that can be visualized and analyzed. Participants are very welcome to use this workshop to fit their own use case: we will take time to adapt the workflows to your needs, using your data. The workshop will be conducted in the R programming language. Register via this link. This LifeWatch VLIZ workshop will take place on the 30th of May (13:30-16:30) in Brussels as part of the VLIZ contribution to the Empowering Biodiversity Research conference (EBRII).