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Call for nominations for the WoRMS Top-Ten Marine Species of 2023
Added on: 2023-11-29 15:49:46 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
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! ...
Ocean Census and WoRMS Announce Partnership to Enhance Rapid Discovery and Identification of Marine Life
Added on: 2023-10-09 14:57:09 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
Collaboration with network of volunteer taxonomic specialists key to mission to accelerate the discovery of ocean life. ...
Agouti has a new look! New website and functionalities for improved user experience.
Added on: 2023-09-22 16:20:51 by Schepers, Lennert
Recently, a new version of Agouti has been released. This time, major improvements have been made to the camera trap platform, based on feedback from the user community ...
Corallosphere integrated into the World List of Scleractinia
Added on: 2023-09-18 13:00:54 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
Back in 2019, the Data Management Team received the request to integrate the content of Corallosphere into WoRMS, and make sure it would also be part of the World List of Scleractinia, one of the WoRMS sub-registers. It took a while, but this integration is now completed! ...
Clarion-Clipperton Zone Species Checklist launched!
Added on: 2023-07-26 16:06:33 by Vandepitte, Leen
ISA and WoRMS release a species checklist for the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Sustainable Seabed Knowledge Initiative. ...
Official launch of DecaNet, a portal for decapod biodiversity informatics
Added on: 2023-06-26 15:50:43 by Vandepitte, Leen
From today onwards, you can find all Decapods on their own portal: welcome to DecaNet! ...
The LifeWatch ERIC BEeS: abstract book, video recordings and more!
Added on: 2023-06-01 10:01:58 by Tavernier, Annelies
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! ...
Calling in our Corals: citizens helping to recognise underwater sounds
Added on: 2023-04-19 16:48:41 by Tavernier, Annelies
Anyone with 3 minutes time and an internet connection can assist coral researchers, and help to restore coral reefs around the world. Google Arts & Culture is launching the unique experiment 'Calling in our Corals', and you all can contribute! ...
The LifeWatch Community Platform is here!
Added on: 2023-04-04 15:12:58 by Tavernier, Annelies
LifeWatch followers and collaborators are cordially invited to the grand unveiling of the LifeWatch Community platform, now openly available to everyone! Who should become a member? Well, if you’re interested in biodiversity and ecosystem research, then you should! ...Cut trough shell and Common cockle stand firm in the Big Annual Seashell Survey
Added on: 2023-03-29 15:32:32 by Tavernier, Annelies
Two thousand volunteers counted 82,444 shells, from a total of 66 species during the sixth edition of the Big Annual Seashell Survey last Saturday. Cut trough shell and Common cockle made it into the top five in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. But there were also interesting regional differences. Less than 1% of the checked shells had a 'drill hole' due to predation by snails. ...
WoRMS Philanthropy grants 2022
Added on: 2023-03-28 11:37:11 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
During 2022, the VLIZ Philanthropy program was able to issue three grants to support WoRMS editors in making WoRMS more complete. This resulted in about 18.000 edits and additions to WoRMS and its sub-registers. ...
WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2022
Added on: 2023-03-19 00:55:02 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
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
Added on: 2023-03-03 10:06:20 by Tavernier, Annelies
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. ...
3.5 million project aims to solve mysteries about fish migration through main European swimways
Added on: 2023-02-28 14:05:55 by Tavernier, Annelies
A new EU-funded project, STRAITS, will equip all four corners of Europe to track aquatic life in an effort to better understand their biology and ecology, and aid in conservation and management. ...
LifeWatch collaborates with all-women expedition studying orcas and whales above the Arctic circle
Added on: 2023-02-16 11:01:52 by Tavernier, Annelies
This winter, LifeWatch provided a key contribution to a citizen science initiative studying marine ecosystem change, orca and whale behaviour in northern Norway, 350 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, during the winter herring run. ...
Our bird tracking data are now archived on GBIF and OBIS!
Added on: 2023-02-07 15:06:17 by Tavernier, Annelies
New open source workflow enables the publication of tracking data from Movebank to GBIF and OBIS. ...
Explore the traits in WoRMS and Aphia with a brand-new R Shiny application
Added on: 2023-01-30 16:24:45 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
With this new R Shiny application, you can explore all trait information in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and its underlying Aphia database in a more advanced way, for instance by combining different traits and combining traits with standardized distributions. ...
LifeWatch citizen scientists got in-depth training on plastic
Added on: 2023-01-09 10:17:33 by Tavernier, Annelies
SeaWatchers closed the year-end of 2022 in an educational way. They took part in the 'plastic' training which zoomed in on the importance of collecting 'marine litter' data, the optimisation of the current protocol and through which methodology they can also provide data at European level. ...
Call for nominations for the WoRMS Top-Ten Marine Species of 2022
Added on: 2022-12-19 15:58:17 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
Once again taxonomists have continued to publish many wonderful new species throughout the last year. As we approach the end of 2022 it is time to think about nominations for The WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species of 2022! ...
Official launch of AlgaeTraits, a trait database for (European) seaweeds
Added on: 2022-12-14 15:14:15 by Vandepitte, Leen
AlgaeTraits provides standardised trait information for all European seaweeds, enabling the use of trait-based approaches over broad taxonomic, spatial and temporal scales. AlgaeTraits is a thematic subregister of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) which links to AlgaeBase, the most complete database on global algal taxonomic information. ...[Add]