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Three PhD scholarships available within LifeWatch

The research topics of the three PhD projects focus on (1) eDNA, (2) the microbial food web and (3) zooplankton research in the Belgian part of the North Sea.

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LifeWatch marine technical meeting at HCMR

As an outcome of the 2nd LifeWatch e-Infrastructure Construction Operational Meeting in Granada earlier this year, a LifeWatch - marine meeting was organized from 3rd-5th of June at the Hellenic Centre of Marine Research in Crete.

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WoRMS goes fossil

The LifeWatch taxonomic backbone invests in capturing information on fossil ranges in the World Register of Marine Species

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All GPS data of the LifeWatch sensor network for large birds becomes available

The GPS data of the tagged birds, generated since June 2013, reveals interesting migration patterns and bird behavior

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LifeWatch INBO publishes 440.000+ fish occurrences as open data

Making the INBO fish occurrence data available to everyone using GBIF tools and CC0.

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The LifeWatch taxonomic backbone is expanding

The Interim Register for Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) will move from CSIRO to VLIZ and will become a new contributor to the LifeWatch taxonomic backbone.

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Bulletin of the LifeWatch Wallonia-Brussels project available online

This first issue of the bulletin summarizes three land surface dynamics during the year 2013 in Europe: the snow, the vegetation phenology and the fires extent.

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Presentation of the LifeWatch Zooplankton Sample Library and demo at YSD 2014

The LifeWatch Zooplankton Sample Library and its use case were demonstrated at the VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day 2014 (March 7th, Bruges, Belgium).

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Demo LifeWatch data services and use cases at YSD 2014

The LifeWatch data services and use cases were demonstrated at the VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day 2014 (March 7th, Bruges, Belgium).

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A "big bang" towards MolluscaBase

On February 6-7, Mollusca experts gathered at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), host institute of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), to discuss a strategy to expand the molluscan component of WoRMS to MolluscaBase. MolluscaBase will be a Global Species Database covering all marine, freshwater and terrestrial molluscs, recent and fossil.