Yearly integration of new GEBCO, ACUF and New Zealand features completed

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

The pursuit of seabass and its conservation: electronic tagging

Little is known on the movements of European seabass in the (Belgian Part of the) North Sea. Yet, knowledge of these spatial dynamics are crucial for the management and conservation of the jeopardized stock.

LifeWatch thesis wins Best Thesis award

Clyde Blanco was awarded the Best Thesis (out of 98) of the 2018-2020 cohort in The International Master of Science in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea) program.

The High Seas. A new member of the Maritime Boundaries family.

MarineRegions.org releases the first version of the High Seas, the last addition to the Maritime Boundaries dataset.

WoRMS needs YOU!

WoRMS is a highly collaborative effort of over 500 involved experts, but we need all users – taxonomists, ecologists and non-scientists – to help us to keep WoRMS up-to-date and correct. If you find an error or an omission, please get in touch with us directly. Direct contact can fix errors a lot faster and more efficient than the WoRMS Team having to learn about these through peer-reviewed publications.

LifeWatch and Maritime Industry: take part in our questionnaire about data and sensors

LifeWatch moves forward towards the establishment of a Maritime Industry Advisory Board (MIAB) that can advise on optimal valorisation for the maritime industry. In the run-up to this MIAB, the LifeWatch Maritime Industry Workshop was organized in January 2020.

Finetuning MolluscaBase

In the week of 3-7 February 2020, the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) – host of Aphia, the online platform behind WoRMS and its many subregisters – welcomed 14 Mollusca experts for 5 days, to further expand the content of MolluscaBase.

Rare European pine marten captured by the camera trap network

The camera trap network CATREIN recently captured a European pine marten on image in Heverleebos, a forest south of the city of Leuven, Belgium.

Complete: EMODnet Biology workshop on data formatting, QC & publishing

Our (EMODnet Biology’s) first ever, completely online workshop has ended! During the past two weeks, around 50 people have dedicated their time to learning everything about formatting and quality controlling datasets for EMODnet Biology ingestion.

The tripod frame: mooring acoustic receivers on the seabed

A new design to overcome the challenges of installing acoustic receivers on the seabed.