LifeWatch Data Analysis Workshop: Towards improved LifeWatch sampling campaigns

During a two-day LifeWatch Data Analysis Workshop in February 2018, 22 experts from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), the Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Ghent University, the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), the Operational Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature) and Onderzoeksprogramma Milieu-Effecten Sigmaplan (OMES) met in Ostend to compile an overview of the long-term monitoring approaches and strategies, to analyze the LifeWatch sampling campaign results, to evaluate the current sampling strategy and to discuss how to further optimize.