LifeWatch INBO publishes 440.000+ fish occurrences as open data

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

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

Call for applications - LifeWatch grants to fill taxonomic gaps in WoRMS

Through LifeWatch, The Flanders Marine Institute – host of the WoRMS database – has a budget available to financially support editors to address gaps within their group. In 2014, WoRMS has access to a LifeWatch budget of 25.000€ which will be made available to the WoRMS editors through small grants.

National Geographic November issue using EEZ from Marineregions

The latest National Geographic Magazine issue is using the EEZ boundaries from Marineregions in the article on Mapping a New America from Robert Ballard.

The LifeWatch Wallonia-Brussels team launches new webGIS to help biodiversity research

On this new webGIS, thematic information derived from remote sensing data can be viewed: pan-European data on the vegetation cycle, snow probability, solar energy and fire frequency.

The LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone supports the WoRMS Amphipoda editors

The taxonomic data management task force at VLIZ will process 250 publications to help complete the Amphipoda information in WoRMS