This training course was aimed at researchers at the post-graduate level and provided a comprehensive introduction to a variety of marine datasets and formats and the use of software for synthesis and analysis of marine data. The importance of good research data management practices and the role of researchers was also highlighted. Personal projects were presented by the students at the end of the course.

Three training sessions were given by LifeWatch Belgium trainers:

On December 5th 2018, the fourth LifeWatch.be project meeting was organized at VLIZ in Ostend. During this meeting, all Belgian LifeWatch partners (VLIZ, INBO, UcL, ULg, RBINS, RMCA, BBPf) discussed the status and progress of the individual LifeWatch.be projects, and the planned future activities.

Documents: 

Agenda_LifeWatchBE_Meeting_20181205.pdf

The VLIZ Marine Science Day has become an established event for all marine and coastal scientists in Flanders/Belgium and its neighbouring regions.

Dating back to its predecessor the 'IZWO Contact Days', this event has evolved since 2000 into an annual interdisciplinary and informative forum.

More than 300 – mostly young – marine and coastal experts from all disciplines come to this event to share knowledge from lectures, posters, demonstrations and interactive sessions. Not to be missed!

Research Data Management (RDM) covers the planning, creating, storing, organizing, accessing, sharing, describing, publishing and curation of data. RDM is mandated by many funding agencies and increasingly by governments to provide access to funded research results. The management of data, particularly large-scale data, has many challenges, and the roles of researchers, facilities that manage marine data, repositories and libraries are coming together to provide access, preservation and archive of this data and the scholarly products associated with it.

Are you excited by the potential of open marine data? Are you aware of the vast resource of open European marine data made available by EMODnet and its potential? Join us at EMODnet's first ever hackathon, to explore EMODnet's open marine data! During a three day open data bootcamp hackathon from 15-17 November 2017 in the vibrant port city of Antwerp, Belgium, we will ideate and co-create innovative solutions to unique problems using EMODnet’s wealth of marine data and ocean observations.

AfReMaS & AfrOBIS: what can these systems do for scientists and how can scientists contribute?

The course provided an introduction to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) and was supported by a member of the EurOBIS data management team. The course included best practices in marine biogeographic data management, data publication, data access, data analysis and data visualisation.

TDWG 2017 Annual Conference: Data Integration in a Big Data Universe: Associating Occurrences with Genes, Phenotypes, and Environments

Participation by members of the LifeWatch INBO and LifeWatch VLIZ teams.

Oral presentations:

INBO Git workshop given in Brussels.

On 30 March 2017, a git/GitHub hands-on session was given at the INBO, by the LifeWatch INBO team.