PRESS RELEASE: Four newly discovered marine species added to world list WoRMS every day

The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) confirms that currently 228,450 marine animal and plant species are known. A critical analysis has identified almost half the names assigned over two and a half centuries to ocean dwelling creatures as redundant aliases; they turned out to be synonyms. But still every day new species are discovered and described. In 2014 alone, some 1,451 new-to-science marine creatures were added to WoRMS — an average of four per day.

The renewed Belgian LifeWatch website is launched!

The renewed LifeWatch.be website brings together all contributions of the Belgian LifeWatch partners.

LifeWatch INBO's visualization work is featured in Nature!

The visualizations made at LifeWatch INBO for the bird tracking network is featured in the current issue of Nature

Catalogue of Life mini-symposium

The mini-symposium will take place on Thursday April 2nd, 9h-12h45 at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Oostende.

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.