Date: Thursday, January 26th 2023
Venue: KVAB (Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts), Palace of the Academies, Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels
Theme: Habitat mapping
Use #LifeWatchBD22 on
RECORDINGS
Morning
Afternoon
Aftermovie
PROGRAMME
09:30 – 10:00 Registration & coffee
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome (Gert Verreet, EWI)
10:10 – 10:40 KEYNOTE: Area of Habitat models for the world’s terrestrial birds and mammals (Maria Lumbierres, University of Amsterdam) - more info
10:40 – 11:10 Environmental variables
10:40 – 10:55 Finding the right remote sensing data service for your needs (Julien Radoux, UC Louvain) - more info
10:55 – 11:10 Bio-Oracle v3.0: towards the next-gen data for marine ecological modelling (Salvador Fernández, VLIZ) - more info
11:10 – 11:40 Coffee break
11:40 – 12:25 Use cases
11:40 – 11:55 Linking ecotopes maps and camera traps to assess effectiveness of management actions against African swine fever (Martijn Bollen, UHasselt) - more info
11:55 – 12:10 Ecological network restoration in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion (Quentin Dubois, Biotope Environnement SA) - more info
12:10 – 12:25 The rise and fall of coniferous forest birds in Belgium (Jean-Yves Paquet, Natagora) - more info
12:25 – 13:45 Lunch break
13:45 – 14:45 Biological valuation and other maps
13:45 – 14:00 Ecotope map of Belgium (Mathilde De Vroey, UC Louvain) - more info
14:00 – 14:15 Biological Valuation Map of Flanders (Toon Spanhove, INBO) - more info
14:15 – 14:30 Biological data in Wallonia (Lionel Wibail, DEMNA) - more info
14:30 – 14:45 Nature analysis maps of Brussels (Fabien Genart, Brussels-environment) - more info
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 15:45 Use cases
15:15 – 15:30 Mapping of the functional ecological network of Wallonia (Thomas Pollet, ULiège) - more info
15:30 – 15:45 Marine habitat modelling: a state-of-the-art model to identify favorable growth sites for mariculture (VLIZ, Gert Everaert) - more info
15:45 – 16:00 Closing remarks
16:00 – 17:00 Reception