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.
NeMys – the World Database of Free-Living Marine Nematodes – has joined forces with WoRMS
NeMys has recently been integrated into the World Register of Marine Species. In addition to all the WoRMS-functionalities, it also holds a number of online identification keys.
Belgian Biodiversity Platform Newsflash n°58
The Biodiversity Newsflash n°58 has just been published
WoRMS goes viral!
The goal of WoRMS is to deal with all marine organisms and – up till now – viruses have been completely overlooked. In collaboration with members of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), WoRMS has leaped into the world of these fascinating tiny creatures and has made available the names of 129 marine virus species, including the link with their host organisms.
LifeWatch @ Taverna workshop
VLIZ is hosting a technical developers workshop in the framework of BioVel.
LifeWatch at the EMBS49
Different aspects of the Belgian LifeWatch infrastructure were presented at the 49th European Marine Biology Symposium at St. Petersburg, Russia.
Major update of the Ostracoda in WoRMS
Recently, over 38.000 new Ostracoda species names have been added to WoRMS, and more than 7.000 existing species names have been updated and verified.
LifeWatch INBO publishes the gull tracking data from the 2013 breeding season as open data
Making the gull tracking data available to everyone using GBIF tools and CC0.