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A "big bang" towards MolluscaBase

On February 6-7, Mollusca experts gathered at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), host institute of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), to discuss a strategy to expand the molluscan component of WoRMS to MolluscaBase. MolluscaBase will be a Global Species Database covering all marine, freshwater and terrestrial molluscs, recent and fossil.

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Call for applications - LifeWatch grants to fill taxonomic gaps in WoRMS

Through LifeWatch, The Flanders Marine Institute – host of the WoRMS database – has a budget available to financially support editors to address gaps within their group. In 2014, WoRMS has access to a LifeWatch budget of 25.000€ which will be made available to the WoRMS editors through small grants.

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National Geographic November issue using EEZ from Marineregions

The latest National Geographic Magazine issue is using the EEZ boundaries from Marineregions in the article on Mapping a New America from Robert Ballard.

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The LifeWatch Wallonia-Brussels team launches new webGIS to help biodiversity research

On this new webGIS, thematic information derived from remote sensing data can be viewed: pan-European data on the vegetation cycle, snow probability, solar energy and fire frequency.

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The LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone supports the WoRMS Amphipoda editors

The taxonomic data management task force at VLIZ will process 250 publications to help complete the Amphipoda information in WoRMS

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The World Register of Marine Species and the Catalogue of Life intensify their collaboration

The Global Team and Editorial Board of the Catalogue of Life recently welcomed two new members of the WoRMS data management team.

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What is Eric up to?

The INBO started visualizing data from a GPS tagged Lesser Black-backed Gull, named Eric.

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A new look for EurOBIS

To give EurOBIS more visibility and to promote its own identity, a new EurOBIS website was developed and launched.

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Marsh harriers in Flanders, what are they doing?

Follow GPS tagged marsh harriers in Flanders through the LifeWatch bird tracking network.

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New professional book scanner at VLIZ Library

The VLIZ Library purchased a new professional book scanner, which will greatly benefit the data archaeology activities within the Flemish LifeWatch project.