LifeWatch supports the Catalogue of Life Global Team meeting @VLIZ

The Global Team and Board of Directors of the Catalogue of Life have met at the Flanders Marine Institute to discuss the strategic plan for the Catalogue and how these goals can be accomplished. Back-to-back with these meetings, a mini-symposium was organized, offering a discussion platform to users, providers and related networks and initiatives to the Catalogue of Life.

World Register of Marine Introduced Species (WRIMS) officially launched

WRIMS – a database of introduced and invasive alien marine species – has officially been released to the public. It includes more than 1,400 marine species worldwide, compiled through the collaboration with international initiatives and study of almost 2,500 publications.

PRESS RELEASE: Four newly discovered marine species added to world list WoRMS every day

The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) confirms that currently 228,450 marine animal and plant species are known. A critical analysis has identified almost half the names assigned over two and a half centuries to ocean dwelling creatures as redundant aliases; they turned out to be synonyms. But still every day new species are discovered and described. In 2014 alone, some 1,451 new-to-science marine creatures were added to WoRMS — an average of four per day.

The renewed Belgian LifeWatch website is launched!

The renewed LifeWatch.be website brings together all contributions of the Belgian LifeWatch partners.

LifeWatch INBO's visualization work is featured in Nature!

The visualizations made at LifeWatch INBO for the bird tracking network is featured in the current issue of Nature

Catalogue of Life mini-symposium

The mini-symposium will take place on Thursday April 2nd, 9h-12h45 at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Oostende.

NeMys editors got off to a flying start!

On February 24-26, experts on free-living marine nematodes have gathered at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), host institute of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), to give the re-newed NeMys a kick-start and to discuss future plans.

Conference “Empowering Biodiversity Research”, May 21th 2015, Brussels

There is a world of tools, standards and data out there, ready for you to use !

The Marine LifeWatch Virtual Research Environment website is launched!

Check out which marine resources, data systems, web services, online tools, etc. are highly relevant for LifeWatch and are brought together into one environment.

Bird migration visualization challenge & hackathon

A hackathon for visualizing bird migration as detected by weather radars