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Successful WoRMS Steering Committee meeting on June 8th – highlights

The WoRMS Steering Committee held its meeting on June 8th – World Oceans Day! – at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) in Crete.

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BLOG POST: Using CartoDB to visualize how far birds migrate in a single night

Read about the nightlife of birds in this latest LifeWatch INBO blog post!

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Meet Joana, the 100th tagged bird!

The LifeWatch.be GPS tracking network for large birds now includes over 100 tagged birds

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WoRMS Steering Committee (SC) meeting 8 Jun 2015 in Crete, Greece

The next WoRMS SC meeting will be held on 2015-06-08, back to back with an EMODNet Marine Species Traits and EU-BON meeting.

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The Empowering Biodiversity Research Conference was a big success!

This enjoyable and very informative day in the Palace of the Academies definitely helped to empower biodiversity research in Belgium.

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BLOG POST: There and back again: gull migration data visualized

Read some interesting gull migrating stories in this latest LifeWatch INBO blog post!

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Renewed emodnet-biology.eu for an even better unlocking of European marine biodiversity data

By means of the grand data network project EMODnet (video), Europe aims in the forthcoming years to unlock all available marine observations and data in order to make them accessible to diverse users. Concerning the biological data, heaps of data and attractive data products are made freely available through the recently renewed website www.emodnet-biology.eu.

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BLOG POST: Breeding birds atlas 2000-2002 published as open data

LifeWatch INBO published the observation data used for the in 2004 published "Atlas van de Vlaamse broedvogels 2000-2002"

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The Freshwater Information Platform is launched

Four European research institutes have launched an online platform to make information from a large set of freshwater ecosystem research activities accessible to all. The Freshwater Information Platform offers a forum for information exchange and open-access publishing of maps and data, and aims to stimulate cutting-edge research and collaborations in the field. The Platform provides a unique and comprehensive knowledge base for sustainable and evidence-based management of our threatened freshwater ecosystems and the resources they provide.

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EMODNet Jamboree and Public Conference - 20-22 October 2015

The next general EMODnet Biology meeting will take place 21-22 October, 2015 in Oostende, Belgium. The meeting will be co-organised with the other EMODnet thematic project meetings, and will be preceded by a Public Conference with all EMODnet Partners and different external stakeholders (20 October 2015, De Grote Post, Oostende).