Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean published!

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) has recently published the comprehensive “Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean”, as a legacy of the International Polar Year (2007-2009).

MolluscaBase officially launched!

After more than a year of planning and preparations, the MolluscaBase portal is ready to be launched!

New Steering Committee in place

The WoRMS Steering Committee welcomes Nicolas Bailly and Nicole Boury-Esnault as new SC members.

Call for applications - LifeWatch money available to support data grants and to organize editor workshops

Through LifeWatch, The Flanders Marine Institute – host of the WoRMS database – has a budget available to financially support editors to address a number of priority gaps within WoRMS. This can be done either through (1) data grants or (2) the organization of an editor-workshop.

LifeWatch support in 2014 made it possible to make WoRMS more complete

In 2014, LifeWatch funded several activities directly leading to the improvement and further completion of the World Register of Marine Species. LifeWatch has invested in data grants, meetings and workshops, leading to the addition of more than 7.600 new names to WoRMS, a revision of almost 19.000 names and the development of new portals and tools, helping the user and editor community in accessing and utilizing WoRMS.

BLOGPOST: Bird tracking explorer released

LifeWatch INBO has developed an open source tool to let you explore the bird tracking data.

Did lack of food contribute to the death of 120 000 saiga antelopes?

See how unusual snow and vegetation greenness at the end of the migration period could have been critical to the survival of this endangered species.

LifeWatch INBO is looking for an Open Data Publisher

Vacancy for open data publisher at the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)

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.

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!