SAVE THE DATE: LifeWatch.be Users & Stakeholders Meeting - 19-20 November 2019
The next edition of the LifeWatch.be Users & Stakeholders Meeting will be organized on 19 and 20 November 2019 at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels. Stay tuned!!
LifeWatch web-services allow fuzzy matching on the Catalogue of Life
Catalogue of Life (CoL) was already available through the LifeWatch taxon match services, but the service has now been upgraded, allowing a fuzzy match similar to WoRMS!
The LifeWatch eel research is winning prizes!
Pieterjan Verhelst is one of the nominees for the Flemish PhD Cup 2019, an initiative from Scriptie vzw, in collaboration with media partners De Morgen, Radio 1 and EOS.
Spanish taxonomy and WoRMS
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) was adopted as a standard for the Spanish master list of marine invertebrates.
New data publication: orthophotos and DSMs derived from UAS flights
UAS (unmanned aerial system) images have been processed and published as open data.
LifeWatch ERIC touching base with Belgian LifeWatch Distributed Center
Newly appointed CEO and interim CTO of the LifeWatch ERIC visit LifeWatch Belgium.
NEW DATA PAPER: Biodiversity data rescue in the framework of a long-term Kenya-Belgium cooperation in marine sciences.
The Kenya-Belgium data collection includes about 111.800 biotic observations on benthos, algae, fish, zooplankton, phytoplankton, birds and mangroves which cover more than 400 unique locations that were sampled between 1873 and 1999.
First LW ERIC Scientific Community Meeting
The Scientific Community Meeting held in Rome from 27 to 29 May 2019 was designed to bring together the wider LifeWatch ERIC scientific communities of researchers and developers to generate and advance the discussion of the most promising lines of scientific development.