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3.5 million project aims to solve mysteries about fish migration through main European swimways

A new EU-funded project, STRAITS, will equip all four corners of Europe to track aquatic life in an effort to better understand their biology and ecology, and aid in conservation and management.

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LifeWatch collaborates with all-women expedition studying orcas and whales above the Arctic circle

This winter, LifeWatch provided a key contribution to a citizen science initiative studying marine ecosystem change, orca and whale behaviour in northern Norway, 350 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, during the winter herring run.

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Our bird tracking data are now archived on GBIF and OBIS!

New open source workflow enables the publication of tracking data from Movebank to GBIF and OBIS.

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Explore the traits in WoRMS and Aphia with a brand-new R Shiny application

With this new R Shiny application, you can explore all trait information in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and its underlying Aphia database in a more advanced way, for instance by combining different traits and combining traits with standardized distributions.

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LifeWatch citizen scientists got in-depth training on plastic

SeaWatchers closed the year-end of 2022 in an educational way. They took part in the 'plastic' training which zoomed in on the importance of collecting 'marine litter' data, the optimisation of the current protocol and through which methodology they can also provide data at European level.

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Call for nominations for the WoRMS Top-Ten Marine Species of 2022

Once again taxonomists have continued to publish many wonderful new species throughout the last year. As we approach the end of 2022 it is time to think about nominations for The WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species of 2022!

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Official launch of AlgaeTraits, a trait database for (European) seaweeds

AlgaeTraits provides standardised trait information for all European seaweeds, enabling the use of trait-based approaches over broad taxonomic, spatial and temporal scales. AlgaeTraits is a thematic subregister of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) which links to AlgaeBase, the most complete database on global algal taxonomic information.

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Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the World Register of Marine Species

You might have already heard… The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year! And we do not want to let this birthday pass unnoticed…

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Awardees for the 2022 WoRMS Achievement & Early Career Researchers Award known

This year, the WoRMS Achievement Award goes to Nicole Boury-Esnault, and the WoRMS Early Career Researchers Award was granted to Virág Venekey. Exceptionally, the WoRMS Award Committee has decided to also grant an Achievement Award posthumously to Jim Lowry.

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WoRMS 15 years: pre-order your WoRMS t-shirt now!

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is releasing a one-of-a-kind t-shirt.