WoRMS species counts revised!
Due to incomplete environment information, the counts of marine species in WoRMS were biased by entries lacking a “non-marine” flag. This has now been corrected.
Integration of new GEBCO, ACUF and New Zealand features
Marine Regions has completed its yearly integration of new features from the GEBCO, ACUF and New Zealand gazetteers.
Awardees for the 2019 WoRMS Achievement & Early Career Researchers Award known
This year’s winners of the WoRMS Achievement Award and the WoRMS Early Career Researchers Award are Rob van Soest and Barna Páll-Gergely respectively.
LifeWatch ecotopes in the spotlight at LPS2019
The LifeWatch ecotopes were highlighted as a great practical application of EAGLE like concepts in the "next gen" session of ESA's Living Planet Symposium 2019.
"Leading. Pioneering. Inspiring."
Christos Arvanitidis, our new CEO, describes in his inaugural address his vision for LifeWatch ERIC.
Problem: the UN Global Assessment Study predicts biodiversity loss & extinction crisis
Solution: LifeWatch ERIC: the web based hub for biodiversity and ecosystem research connecting science across Europe
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for WoRMS sub-registers
Following the example of WoRMS, a number of its Global, Regional and Thematic Species Databases now also have a DOI assigned to them!
EMODnet Biology General meeting
Next EMODnet Biology general meeting to take place in Lisbon, 16th and 17th May 2019