International symposium searches solutions for migrating bats

On November 8 and 9, 2019, the international bat research community will meet in Ostend and Bruges.

European Ocean Biogeographic Information System (EurOBIS) celebrates its 15th anniversary

Established in 2004, EurOBIS aims at centralising and making available the largely scattered marine species biogeographic data in Europe. Today – 15 years later – it hosts no less than 24 million distribution records of 62.299 species. Thanks to EurOBIS and the effort of many scientists working on a voluntary basis, these valuable data have a second life.

REGISTRATION OPEN: LifeWatch.be Users & Stakeholders Meeting - 19-20 November 2019

The next edition of the LifeWatch.be Users & Stakeholders Meeting will be organized on 19 and 20 November 2019 at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels. Registration is now open!

SAVE THE DATE: LifeWatch.be Users & Stakeholders Meeting - 19-20 November 2019

The next edition of the LifeWatch.be Users & Stakeholders Meeting will be organized on 19 and 20 November 2019 at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels. Stay tuned!!

LifeWatch web-services allow fuzzy matching on the Catalogue of Life

Catalogue of Life (CoL) was already available through the LifeWatch taxon match services, but the service has now been upgraded, allowing a fuzzy match similar to WoRMS!

The LifeWatch eel research is winning prizes!

Pieterjan Verhelst is one of the nominees for the Flemish PhD Cup 2019, an initiative from Scriptie vzw, in collaboration with media partners De Morgen, Radio 1 and EOS.

Spanish taxonomy and WoRMS

The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) was adopted as a standard for the Spanish master list of marine invertebrates.

New data publication: orthophotos and DSMs derived from UAS flights

UAS (unmanned aerial system) images have been processed and published as open data.

LifeWatch ERIC touching base with Belgian LifeWatch Distributed Center

Newly appointed CEO and interim CTO of the LifeWatch ERIC visit LifeWatch Belgium.

NEW DATA PAPER: Biodiversity data rescue in the framework of a long-term Kenya-Belgium cooperation in marine sciences.

The Kenya-Belgium data collection includes about 111.800 biotic observations on benthos, algae, fish, zooplankton, phytoplankton, birds and mangroves which cover more than 400 unique locations that were sampled between 1873 and 1999.