First LW ERIC Scientific Community Meeting

The Scientific Community Meeting held in Rome from 27 to 29 May 2019 was designed to bring together the wider LifeWatch ERIC scientific communities of researchers and developers to generate and advance the discussion of the most promising lines of scientific development.

WoRMS species counts revised!

Due to incomplete environment information, the counts of marine species in WoRMS were biased by entries lacking a “non-marine” flag. This has now been corrected.

Integration of new GEBCO, ACUF and New Zealand features

Marine Regions has completed its yearly integration of new features from the GEBCO, ACUF and New Zealand gazetteers.

Awardees for the 2019 WoRMS Achievement & Early Career Researchers Award known

This year’s winners of the WoRMS Achievement Award and the WoRMS Early Career Researchers Award are Rob van Soest and Barna Páll-Gergely respectively.

LifeWatch ecotopes in the spotlight at LPS2019

The LifeWatch ecotopes were highlighted as a great practical application of EAGLE like concepts in the "next gen" session of ESA's Living Planet Symposium 2019.

"Leading. Pioneering. Inspiring."

Christos Arvanitidis, our new CEO, describes in his inaugural address his vision for LifeWatch ERIC.

Problem: the UN Global Assessment Study predicts biodiversity loss & extinction crisis

Solution: LifeWatch ERIC: the web based hub for biodiversity and ecosystem research connecting science across Europe

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for WoRMS sub-registers

Following the example of WoRMS, a number of its Global, Regional and Thematic Species Databases now also have a DOI assigned to them!

EMODnet Biology General meeting

Next EMODnet Biology general meeting to take place in Lisbon, 16th and 17th May 2019

WoRMS and the Australian Faunal Directory sign a Memorandum of Understanding

This Memorandum of Understanding provides the basis for a collaboration and data exchange between AFD and WoRMS.