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Marineregions.org - the standard for marine areas, boundaries and place names
Added on: 2012-11-30 12:55:52 | | From now on it is a piece of cake to locate Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) and marine geographic names worldwide by means of the website Marineregions.org. ... [Read more] |
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New data manager for WoRMS: Leen Vandepitte
Added on: 2012-06-15 13:51:31 | The Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) has appointed Leen Vandepitte as the new data manager for WoRMS.
Leen is a biologist with a lot of experience in biological data management. In the VLIZ data centre, she is also responsable for the management of EurOBIS. Wim Decock (biologist) and Bart Vanhoorne (IT specialist) will of course continue to serve in the data management team for WoRMS. [Read more] |
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PRESS RELEASE: Flanders invests in European research infrastructures
Added on: 2012-05-18 16:52:40 | | On Tuesday 8 May 2012, the Flemish Minister of Innovation Ingrid Lieten launched four Flemish projects of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure (ESFRI). As such the Flemish government engaged to contribute to these European initiatives to set up joint research infrastructures. The Minister reserved, in the framework of the Flemish innovation policy, for this purpose 3.5 million EUR. VLIZ will actively participate in two of these ESFRI projects, namely ICOS and LifeWatch. [Read more] |
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LifeWatch a high technological view on European and Flemish biodiversity
Added on: 2012-05-18 16:44:06 | | Alike to the importance of the breakthrough of meteorology for the accuracy of the daily weather forecast, LifeWatch will allow a precise follow-up of life on earth and in the oceans. With revolutionary techniques and computational systems Flanders will contribute to Europe’s high technological future of continuous monitoring of the status and the evolution of biodiversity and the ecosystem services that are of major importance for the European society. ... [Read more] |
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World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida launched ('Mysidacea')
Added on: 2012-04-12 10:27:01 | The peracarid crustacean orders Mysida, Lophogastrida and Stygiomysida were formerly grouped under the name "Mysidacea". Although the treatment in three separate orders is now accepted, we have chosen to present mysids, lophogastrids and stygiomysids in the same web interface. The higher classification (orders, families, subfamilies) follows Meland & Willassen (2007), and the fossil order of Pygocephalomorpha is also included in the database.
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