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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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World data center in Ostend.
Added on: 2011-11-15 13:31:10 | | PRESS ALERT: It doesn’t happen every day that a Flemish institution is globally recognized for its sustained efforts. The Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) was awarded this honour and saw its efforts in managing marine data since 2000 rewarded with an international certification within the World Data System of the International Council for Science (ICSU). VLIZ is now an official member of a global network of 28 world data centres. ... [Read more] |
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Call for abstracts for VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day on 24 February 2012!
Added on: 2011-10-25 15:09:43 | | The 'VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day' 2012 invites all marine scientists in Flanders and around. On Friday 24 February you can discover the quality, diversity and relevance of the multidsiciplinaire marine research in Bruges (KHBO). Submit your abstract by 9 December 2011 and present your research in a clear, concise and attractive way. ... [Read more] |
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WoRMS frequently mentioned at the World Conference of Marine Biodiversity 2011
Added on: 2011-10-11 09:56:28 | | WoRMS was quoted as a source of information many times during the World Conference of Marine Biodiversity (25-30 September 2011, Aberdeen, UK), the largest ever conference of marine biologists with almost 1000 present. ... [Read more] |
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The World Polychaeta Database launched
Added on: 2011-09-19 13:21:24 | | The new Global Species Database (GSD) contains over 11,000 accepted species and is a merge of the World Register of Polychaeta by Kristian Fauchald (2007) and numerous additions/edits from Geoff Read (>2009), and several other editors. ... [Read more] |
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World Modern Foraminifera Database launched
Added on: 2011-08-12 10:20:55 | The World Modern Foraminifera Database currently contains roughly 10,000 names, including 6,700 accepted species. It also contains 1,100 references and around 2,700 images of species.
The (3) editors are: Bruce W. Hayward; Tomas Cedhagen; Mike Kaminski. ... [Read more] |
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The European Species Portal (PESI) has been launched!
Added on: 2011-05-10 09:36:27 | | The portal of PESI (Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) has been launched: www.eu-nomen.eu/portal and is available in 21 European languages. With time, it will be possible to find and search through the information of all species appearing in Europe. Not only the species living in seas and oceans, but also of all terrestrial and aquatic species. Currently, there are already nearly half a million scientific and non-scientific names in 88 languages for over 210 000 species and over 6 million distribution records. ... [Read more] |
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An ABC tool for Natural Sciences
Added on: 2011-05-02 12:50:45 | | The correct spelling of a species name is not always trivial and it is even more difficult for non-taxonomists to keep up with the valid status of species names. VLIZ now provides the 'Taxon Match Tool': a powerful semi-automated name validation tool to cross-check the spelling and taxonomic status of species. ... [Read more] |
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World EEZ version 6 now available
Added on: 2011-04-06 11:39:25 | | Version 6.0 of this global database covering the maritime boundaries of all coastal states worldwide is now available at www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbound. |
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Follow the Japanese tsunami in the Pacific via the Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility
Added on: 2011-03-14 12:55:08 | | On Friday 11 March Japan was hit by a massive earthquake, with the epicentre lying approximately 130km offshore the northeast coast. Promptly a tsunami ánd tsunami alert followed. The progress of the wave could be followed via the Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility - a website developed by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in Ostend/Belgium for the Project Office for IODE (IOC/UNESCO) and several IOC programmes. ... [Read more] |
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Request for feedback on marine biological data portal of EMODnet
Added on: 2011-03-04 12:39:10 | | To improve access to high quality marine data, the European Commission sets up the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) and different thematic data portals are under development. Currently the prototype of the marine biological data portal of EMODnet is launched. This open-access portal provides data on the distribution of marine species (including environmental data layers). We welcome you to visit the data portal and are looking forward to receiving your personal feedback to help shape the final European marine biological data portal. ... [Read more] |
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Showing readers what species look like
Added on: 2010-12-10 10:30:00 | | The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and associated databases are an index to the book of life, but our further goal is for every species to have its face on the web. ... [Read more] |
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The Canadian Register of Marine Species is now available online
Added on: 2010-11-23 17:24:15 | | CaRMS is one of the regional species registers in WoRMS, containing authoritative species distribution records for marine areas of interest to Canadian researchers and includes taxa found in three oceans: the Atlantic, the Arctic and the Pacific. ... [Read more] |
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Urge to speed up installation of system to monitor global ocean
Added on: 2010-10-29 14:35:50 | | Oceanographers worldwide, united in the Partnership for the Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) - where VLIZ represents the Belgian marine scientists - and the organisation ‘Oceans United’ will plead on the GEO Plenary and Ministerial Summit for a more systematic monitoring of the state of our global oceans. By means of recent and innovative digital developments, an implementation of such a surveillance system is feasible. Now more than ever. ... [Read more] |
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New online Belgian Register of Marine species is counting 2187 species
Added on: 2010-10-01 13:02:00 | | Together with a wide range of field experts from Belgium and taxonomic experts worldwide, the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) started to compile an inventory of all species living in the Belgian part of North Sea. At the moment, the Belgian Register of Marine Species (BeRMS) comprises 2187 species. An updated version of this list is consultable at all times via the new website of the Belgian register of Marine Species (BeRMS). ... [Read more] |
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'Marine Knowledge 2020': EU invests in knowledge on the sea
Added on: 2010-09-24 08:59:58 | | To underpin and implement the integrated European Maritime Policy, including the Framework Marine Strategy, all available knowledge have to be combined and mobilized. Europe's fragmented activities for observing the sea should be integrated into an coherent package. With its new campaign 'Marine Knowledge 2020' the EU want to draw the attention to the further extension of a 'European Observation and Data Netwerk (EMODnet)'. Presently VLIZ coordinates the biological pilot project of EMODnet (2009-2012). The European Commission assembled a promotional video for the campaign with a.o. images of VLIZ and Flemish marine scientist at work. ... [Read more] |
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