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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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Mangrove database in Plant Ecology and Evolution
Added on: 2010-09-14 10:34:26 | | The journal Plant Ecology and Evolution has recently published a paper on the ‘Mangrove Reference Database and Herbarium’, which is an integral part of the World Register of Marine Species, hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute. ... [Read more] |
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Now also measurement data available on the Flemish-Dutch knowledge platform ScheldeMonitor
Added on: 2010-09-06 13:31:33 | | Until recently, the ScheldeMonitor was mainly known as an information system containing all publications, projects and data sets with regard to research and monitoring in the Scheldt estuary. Now major steps were made to develop ScheldeMonitor further into a data portal in which actual measurement data can be consulted. ... [Read more] |
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EMODnet pilot portal for Biology launched
Added on: 2010-07-06 10:05:28 | | Reliable measurement data are needed to put the new European integral marine strategy into practice. The accessibility of data and related information deserves attention as well. To achieve this, the European Commission will establish a European marine observation and data network (EMODnet). To determine how such a network will look like in the future, five pilot projects (for biological, chemical, hydrological and geological data and for mapping habitats) have been set up (2009-2011). VLIZ is responsible for the biological pilot and is involved in the chemical share. Within the biological lot the VLIZ data centre will not only offer biological marine data in a standard format and known quality, but also will identify the gaps in the geographical coverage and time. Now the pilot portal of the project is launched. ... [Read more] |
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Website to calculate the BEQI-index
Added on: 2010-03-31 11:16:48 | | The Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) collaborated in the development of a user-friendly web application for the calculation of the biologic BEQI-index (Benthic Ecosystem Quality Index), making the ecologic assessment of coastal and transitional waters based on bottom animals (macrobenthos) - according to the Water Framework Directive - more accessible: www.beqi.eu. ... [Read more] |
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Chilean tsunami crosses entire Pacific Ocean
Added on: 2010-03-01 12:29:23 | | The progress of the tsunami was followed closely via the sea level monitoringssystem, developed by IOC/UNESCO, IODE and VLIZ in Oostend, Belgium. ... [Read more] |
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