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New data product: Extended Continental Shelves

MarineRegions.org is proud to launch the first version of the Extended Continental Shelves dataset

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How do you use marine data hosted in Flanders?

Flanders manages a large amount of marine data. To get an idea of the use and social value of this data, EWI (Science, Technology and Innovation in Flanders) launches a survey in cooperation with OECD.

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The LifeWatch Data Cloud is launched!

This summer the LifeWatch Data Cloud was launched as a user-friendly platform for researchers who are looking for data to perform biodiversity and ecosystem research. In the background, the LifeWatch Data Cloud is using the Flemish Supercomputer Center (VSC) resources to provide the users with a performant infrastructure. Let’s try it out immediately at https://datacloudmi.lifewatch.be!

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Decapoda editors participated in the very first LifeWatch-WoRMS Decapoda Workshop

In the week of 10-13 May 2022, ten Decapoda experts met in Ostend with the WoRMS Data Management team (DMT), to work towards establishing a Global Species List of Decapoda.

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Searching synergies between IMEV and LifeWatch VLIZ

Plankton imagery experts from l’Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV) visited over 3 days the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) to discuss the way forward in plankton imagery. It turned out as an inspiring cross-fertilisation!

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WoRMS starring in season 3 of the LifeWatch ERIC podcast

The first of a new LifeWatch ERIC podcast series launched today, 20 July 2022, focuses on the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) and the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) database.

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Taxonomy and beyond: ecological trait information in Aphia and WoRMS

In recent years, the WoRMS editors and Data Management Team have made collective efforts towards documenting the following species traits information in Aphia and WoRMS: environment (99,5% complete), functional group (76% complete), qualitative (45% complete) and quantitative body size (9% complete) (percentages are for accepted species in Aphia). The availability of these traits greatly enhances the usability and utility of WoRMS towards ecologists and the public at large.

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Artificial reefs in the spotlight in the podcast series “A Window on Science”

LifeWatch ERIC developed the podcast series 'A Window on Science'. In this series, scientists are given extensive time to explain what their research entails in an understandable way. In season 2, they clarify how they use artificial reefs to study hidden species on hard-bottom communities.

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Official launch of the World List of Actiniaria

Actiniaria – or sea anemones – are now accessible through their very own portal, linked to the World Register of Marine Species and containing a treasure of information rescued from the Hexacorallians of the World Database of the late Daphne Fautin.

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ENVRI Community International Summer School is back in person!

LifeWatch ERIC is delighted to announce the 2022 edition of the ENVRI Community International Summer School. And this summer, they are back in person!