NeMys editors got off to a flying start!
On February 24-26, experts on free-living marine nematodes have gathered at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), host institute of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), to give the re-newed NeMys a kick-start and to discuss future plans.
Conference “Empowering Biodiversity Research”, May 21th 2015, Brussels
There is a world of tools, standards and data out there, ready for you to use !
The Marine LifeWatch Virtual Research Environment website is launched!
Check out which marine resources, data systems, web services, online tools, etc. are highly relevant for LifeWatch and are brought together into one environment.
Bird migration visualization challenge & hackathon
A hackathon for visualizing bird migration as detected by weather radars
Alien Eel ‘19437’ detected by Belgian LifeWatch acoustic receiver network
A silver eel from the dutch project ‘Ruim baan voor vissen’ was detected by the Belgian LifeWatch acoustic receiver network, approximately six weeks after being tagged at Delfzijl, northern Holland.
23 winters of waterbird counts published as open data
LifeWatch INBO just published another core data system of the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) as open data: Watervogels - Wintering waterbirds in Flanders, Belgium.
FreshGEN: the Freshwater Gastropods of the European Neogene – a new thematic database
The FreshGEN database contains species information on Neogene freshwater Gastropoda and has kindly offered to share its information with both MolluscaBase and WoRMS. Through this, MolluscaBase is taking an excellent start regarding the fossil component of the database, as no less than 4.360 new taxa were added.
Dag van de Wetenschap - Open house at VLIZ/LifeWatch laboratories
VLIZ opens, for the first time, the doors of its Marine Station Ostend for the public at large.