The map below aims to provide a geographic overview of ongoing LifeWatch related activities. For now the map only displays the current position of the RV Simon Stevin in real-time (red arrow) on the Belgian part of the North Sea (red line). Below the map a real-time list of activities is provided. The list is continuously updated as new operations are registered. For now the list includes: research activities on board the RV Simon Stevin, new or updated taxa in the World Register of Marine Species, content added to the coastal wiki articles, etc.

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Presentation of the LifeWatch Zooplankton Sample Library and demo at YSD 2014
2014-03-10 09:28:02
The LifeWatch Zooplankton Sample Library and its use case were demonstrated at the VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day 2014 (March 7th, Bruges, Belgium).


Demo LifeWatch data services and use cases at YSD 2014
2014-03-10 09:25:53
The LifeWatch data services and use cases were demonstrated at the VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day 2014 (March 7th, Bruges, Belgium).


A "big bang" towards MolluscaBase
2014-02-11 14:56:53
On February 6-7, Mollusca experts gathered at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), host institute of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), to discuss a strategy to expand the molluscan component of WoRMS to MolluscaBase. MolluscaBase will be a Global Species Database covering all marine, freshwater and terrestrial molluscs, recent and fossil.


Call for applications - LifeWatch grants to fill taxonomic gaps in WoRMS
2014-01-15 14:23:30
Through LifeWatch, The Flanders Marine Institute – host of the WoRMS database – has a budget available to financially support editors to address gaps within their group. In 2014, WoRMS has access to a LifeWatch budget of 25.000€ which will be made available to the WoRMS editors through small grants.


National Geographic November issue using EEZ from Marineregions
2013-12-03 10:28:15
The latest National Geographic Magazine issue is using the EEZ boundaries from Marineregions in the article on Mapping a New America from Robert Ballard.


The LifeWatch Wallonia-Brussels team launches new webGIS to help biodiversity research
2013-11-22 10:31:40
On this new webGIS, thematic information derived from remote sensing data can be viewed: pan-European data on the vegetation cycle, snow probability, solar energy and fire frequency.


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