New professional book scanner at VLIZ Library

The VLIZ Library purchased a new professional book scanner, which will greatly benefit the data archaeology activities within the Flemish LifeWatch project.

3rd FADA workshop, SMEBD Annual Council Meeting and SMEBD Annual General Meeting at VLIZ.

From 17-21 June 2013, the 3rd FADA workshop, the SMEBD Annual Council Meeting and the SMEBD Annual General Meeting were held at VLIZ.

Installation of a GPS tracking network for large birds

On the 18th of June 2013, a press conference was held at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) about the installation of a GPS tracking network for large birds in Flanders.

Flanders gets first 'drone'

UFO observers are warned: from next year onwards at least one unmanned aircraft will fly over Flanders. "The device will be used to determine the ecological value of each piece of land in Flanders," said Jurgen Tack of The Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO).

First meeting expert group on the LifeWatch marine observatory and data archaeology

On Friday the 1st of March, the expert group for the LifeWatch marine observatory and data archaeology met for the first time at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in Ostend, Belgium.

Demo LifeWatch Flanders portal at YSD 2013

The LifeWatch Flanders data portal is demoed at the VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day 2013 (Bruges, Belgium)

Taxon match being presented at the 4th iMarine Technical Committee Meeting

in Ostend, Belgium (23 - 25 January 2013)

Launch of the regional LifeWatch.be prototype portal

The new website of the Flemish LifeWatch project went live on 12 November, 2012.

Flemish contribution to LifeWatch launched

On Tuesday 8 May 2012 the Flemish Minister of Innovation Ingrid Lieten launched the Flemish contribution to Life Watch, which will be coordinated by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) and the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO).

Bird tracking system: prototype of a LifeWatch virtual laboratory

Tracking bird movement and behaviour at multiple scales in space and time is no easy task. A team at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) developed a flexible, state of the art, Bird Tracking System, the UvA-BiTS (http://www.uva-bits.nl/). It is a prototype of a LifeWatch virtual lab.