Come on Saturday 25 March 2023 to one of the 10 coastal municipalities along the Belgian coast for the sixth Belgian Big Seashell Survey. On that day, hundreds of amateur scientists and citizens will determine which shells have washed up on the beaches. This can give us a better picture of the changes in marine life in the Belgian part of the North Sea.

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Representation of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) at the Catalogue of Life Global Team Meeting.

The programme will include an introduction to and discussions about Camtrap DP, a new community-developed exchange format, and a preview of a publishing guide for camera-trap data now in preparation. The session will conclude with an update on the status and next steps of the broader effort to diversify the data model.

Peter Desmet of the LifeWatch INBO team will give an introduction to Camtrp DP: A frictionless data exchange format for camera trapping data

The Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) is involved in Taks 7.2 - Data management of this project.

The EurOBIS team of the LifeWatch Species Information Backbone attended this kick-off meeting.

Documents: 

MARBEFES KickOff agenda final20220915.docx

Researchers from 11 European countries meet in Heidelberg (11-13 January) to kickstart a the BIOcean5D, a major interdisciplinary project designed to better understand marine biodiversity and its fate in the Anthropocene.

EMBL is coordinating the BIOcean5D project that brings together 30 research partners to holistically explore marine biodiversity at molecular and organismal levels – from viruses to mammals, across space, time, and human scales (5D). 

Dr. Jan Reubens talks about the European aquatic animal tracking Network (ETN). ETN has mission is to track aquatic animals across Europe to better understand, protect and manage them using telemetry technologies. In this talk an overview is given of the different tracking technologies, what are the main objectives for ETN and how these are reached.

Voor de LifeWatch Seawatchers en hun buddies wordt een opleiding “plastic” georganiseerd op dinsdag 20 december 2022.

Seawatch-B is een observatienetwerk dat met behulp van burgerwetenschappers de toestand van de Belgische Noordzee meet. Een initatief dat kadert binnen het LifeWatch project en in de 'goede-zeedoelen' werking van het VLIZ.

Meeting of the editors of the World Porifera Database during the 11th International Sponge Symposium in Leiden.

The WoRMS Data Management Team was requested to be present during the discussions.

Documents: 

WPD editor meeting oct2022(1).docx

6-monthly meeting of the WoRMS Steering Committee

https://marinespecies.org/about.php#governance

Agenda: https://marinespecies.org/documents/Steering%20Committee%20reports/20221219_WoRMS_SC_meeting_virtual_agenda.pdf