WoRMS and the Australian Faunal Directory sign a Memorandum of Understanding
This Memorandum of Understanding provides the basis for a collaboration and data exchange between AFD and WoRMS.
WoRMS: now truly marine and extant!
A new functionality on the World Register of Marine Species now easily allows the search and display options to be limited to only marine and extant species.
NEW DATA PAPER on LifeWatch Marine Observatory data
Nutrient, pigment, suspended matter and turbidity measurements in the Belgian part of the North Sea.
The Lifewatch Wallonia-Brussels portal has been updated !
In addition to the land surface dynamics (weekly unusual snow cover and vegetation greenness; annual summary of fire events) and the ecotope database (integrated quantitative database of the abiotic and environmental variables based on large scale polygons), new data and tools are now available for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2018
This year we have released our list of the top-ten marine species of 2018 to coincide with World Taxonomist Appreciation day - March 19th!
New Bulletin of Land Surface Dynamics out!
The second half of 2018 was mostly marked by severe droughts in Europe, lasting until October in some areas and having significant impacts on agriculture and biodiversity.
LifeWatch ERIC is hiring
LifeWatch ERIC has opened 4 vacancies for positions at its Service Centre, Lecce, Italy.
Downloading tidal data to understand the behaviour of a migrating eel
A research use case for the R package wateRinfo (published as rOpenSci blog post).