WoRMS goes fossil
The LifeWatch taxonomic backbone invests in capturing information on fossil ranges in the World Register of Marine Species
All GPS data of the LifeWatch sensor network for large birds becomes available
The GPS data of the tagged birds, generated since June 2013, reveals interesting migration patterns and bird behavior
LifeWatch INBO publishes 440.000+ fish occurrences as open data
Making the INBO fish occurrence data available to everyone using GBIF tools and CC0.
The LifeWatch taxonomic backbone is expanding
The Interim Register for Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) will move from CSIRO to VLIZ and will become a new contributor to the LifeWatch taxonomic backbone.
Bulletin of the LifeWatch Wallonia-Brussels project available online
This first issue of the bulletin summarizes three land surface dynamics during the year 2013 in Europe: the snow, the vegetation phenology and the fires extent.
Presentation of the LifeWatch Zooplankton Sample Library and demo at YSD 2014
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
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
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.