Demo LifeWatch Flanders portal at YSD 2013

NELOS divers use WoRMS in digital dive log: a step toward citizen science

The Flemish diving federation NELOS vzw (Dutch-speaking League for Underwater Research and Sports) has recently integrated the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) into its internal platform DIVES — a Digital Verification System used to log tens of thousands of dives each year.

Sevenfold increase in stinging weever fish observed by SeaWatch-B

Between April and late June this year, weever fish counts were seven times higher than during the same period in 2024, according to SeaWatch-B, the citizen science project of the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) under the LifeWatch Belgium Programme.

Awardees for the 2025 WoRMS Achievement & Early Career Researcher Award known

This year, Sammy De Grave has been honored with the WoRMS Achievement Award, and the WoRMS Early Career Researcher Award goes to Sávio Gabriel Gomes Pereira.