LifeWatch Belgium, a very active research community!
On Monday May 23rd, the second LifeWatch.be Infrastructure User Meeting was organized at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in Ostend. During this full-day event, users of the LifeWatch.be infrastructure were given the chance to present their ongoing research and first results. This event was also the perfect networking opportunity for the Belgian LifeWatch partners, researchers, PhD students, LifeWatch Belgium supporters, etc.
During the morning session and the first part of the afternoon, several ongoing individual research projects within the Belgian LifeWatch infrastructure were presented. Since the previous edition (June 2014), many additional research projects started and a lot of progress has been made: while the previous meeting was limited to describing the infrastructure itself and laying out some future plans, during the meeting on Monday all presenters were able to show some (first) results and ongoing analyses of their research.
The last three presentations of the day were aimed at the more general use of the infrastructure: how the LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone can be of use to you, which workshops are being organized as a service to the users, and which are the most recent LifeWatch e-infrastructure developments.
Agenda:
10:00-10:15 Welcome and short introduction of the day (K. Deneudt/S. Dekeyzer)
10:15-10:35 LifeWatch gull tracking: an emerging network (L. Lens)
10:35-10:55 The importance of estuarine and coastal areas for the migration of fish and recovery of populations (P. Verhelst)
10:55-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-11:35 Unraveling the main drivers of zooplankton dynamics in a multistressor environment (Y. Deschutter)
11:35-11:55 Improved technology marks new scientific opportunities (R. de Blok)
11:55-12:15 Detection and degradation of environmental DNA (eDNA) in the marine environment: a lab and field approach with plaice
(T. Grosemans)
12:15-12:35 Modeling marine species distributions from public data (S. Bosch)
12:35-13:35 Lunch
13:35-13:55 Evaluation of PROBA-V satellite capabilities for the monitoring of snow cover extent at global scale and at high solar zenith angles
(F. Hawotte)
13:55-14:15 Biodiversity monitoring using RPAS in Flanders (J. Vanden Borre)
14:15-14:35 LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone: combining taxonomy, biogeography & traits (L. Vandepitte)
14:35-14:55 Coffee break
14:55-15:15 Overview of the recent and future LifeWatch Workshops (S. Dekeyzer)
15:15-15:35 LifeWatch e-infrastructure developments (K. Deneudt)
15:35 End of meeting
The report of the meeting is available here.
The last three presentations of the day were aimed at the more general use of the infrastructure: how the LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone can be of use to you, which workshops are being organized as a service to the users, and which are the most recent LifeWatch e-infrastructure developments.
Agenda:
10:00-10:15 Welcome and short introduction of the day (K. Deneudt/S. Dekeyzer)
10:15-10:35 LifeWatch gull tracking: an emerging network (L. Lens)
10:35-10:55 The importance of estuarine and coastal areas for the migration of fish and recovery of populations (P. Verhelst)
10:55-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-11:35 Unraveling the main drivers of zooplankton dynamics in a multistressor environment (Y. Deschutter)
11:35-11:55 Improved technology marks new scientific opportunities (R. de Blok)
11:55-12:15 Detection and degradation of environmental DNA (eDNA) in the marine environment: a lab and field approach with plaice
(T. Grosemans)
12:15-12:35 Modeling marine species distributions from public data (S. Bosch)
12:35-13:35 Lunch
13:35-13:55 Evaluation of PROBA-V satellite capabilities for the monitoring of snow cover extent at global scale and at high solar zenith angles
(F. Hawotte)
13:55-14:15 Biodiversity monitoring using RPAS in Flanders (J. Vanden Borre)
14:15-14:35 LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone: combining taxonomy, biogeography & traits (L. Vandepitte)
14:35-14:55 Coffee break
14:55-15:15 Overview of the recent and future LifeWatch Workshops (S. Dekeyzer)
15:15-15:35 LifeWatch e-infrastructure developments (K. Deneudt)
15:35 End of meeting
The report of the meeting is available here.
