A South African artist has ‘caught’ all fish names from WoRMS in an impressive artwork, with an environmental message
In January 2015, the WoRMS data management received an unusual request from a South African artist, Craig McClenaghan, who was searching for a full list of the world’s marine fish species.
BLOGPOST: A tutorial on visualizing bird tracking data with CartoDB
An introduction to using CartoDB for tracking data, based on two workshops the INBO gave.
Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean published!
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) has recently published the comprehensive “Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean”, as a legacy of the International Polar Year (2007-2009).
MolluscaBase officially launched!
After more than a year of planning and preparations, the MolluscaBase portal is ready to be launched!
New Steering Committee in place
The WoRMS Steering Committee welcomes Nicolas Bailly and Nicole Boury-Esnault as new SC members.
Call for applications - LifeWatch money available to support data grants and to organize editor workshops
Through LifeWatch, The Flanders Marine Institute – host of the WoRMS database – has a budget available to financially support editors to address a number of priority gaps within WoRMS. This can be done either through (1) data grants or (2) the organization of an editor-workshop.
LifeWatch support in 2014 made it possible to make WoRMS more complete
In 2014, LifeWatch funded several activities directly leading to the improvement and further completion of the World Register of Marine Species. LifeWatch has invested in data grants, meetings and workshops, leading to the addition of more than 7.600 new names to WoRMS, a revision of almost 19.000 names and the development of new portals and tools, helping the user and editor community in accessing and utilizing WoRMS.
BLOGPOST: Bird tracking explorer released
LifeWatch INBO has developed an open source tool to let you explore the bird tracking data.