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WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2023

Added on: 2024-03-19 01:26:25 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
As for previous years, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has again released its annual list of the top-ten marine species described by researchers during the past year to coincide with World Taxonomist Appreciation Day on March 19th! ...

What's that sound?

Added on: 2024-01-09 12:22:56 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
A Global Inventory of Sound Production Brings Us One Step Closer to Understanding Aquatic Ecosystems. ...

Five Decades in Carcinology - Tribute to Jim Lowry

Added on: 2023-12-08 12:49:58 by Vandepitte, Leen
On 6th December 2023 a Festschrift in honour of the late Dr James K. (Jim) Lowry (1942–2021), renowned Amphipod taxonomist and WoRMS editor, was published by the Records of Australian Museum. ...

Awardees for the 2023 WoRMS Achievement & Early Career Researcher Award known

Added on: 2023-12-06 13:41:50 by Vandepitte, Leen
This year, Peter Schuchert has been honored with the WoRMS Achievement Award, and the WoRMS Early Career Researcher Award goes to Tristan Verhoeff. ...

Call for nominations for the WoRMS Top-Ten Marine Species of 2023

Added on: 2023-11-29 15:49:46 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
Once again taxonomists have continued to publish many wonderful new species throughout the last year. As we approach the end of 2023 it is time to think about nominations for The WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species of 2023! ...

In memoriam: Crinoidea editor Charles Messing

Added on: 2023-11-13 17:02:53 by Vandepitte, Leen
Over the weekend, the WoRMS Data Management Team received the sad news that Charles – Chuck - Messing has passed away. ...

Ocean Census and WoRMS Announce Partnership to Enhance Rapid Discovery and Identification of Marine Life

Added on: 2023-10-09 14:57:09 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
Collaboration with network of volunteer taxonomic specialists key to mission to accelerate the discovery of ocean life. ...

Corallosphere integrated into the World List of Scleractinia

Added on: 2023-09-18 13:00:54 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
Back in 2019, the Data Management Team received the request to integrate the content of Corallosphere into WoRMS, and make sure it would also be part of the World List of Scleractinia, one of the WoRMS sub-registers. It took a while, but this integration is now completed! ...

Clarion-Clipperton Zone Species Checklist launched!

Added on: 2023-07-26 16:06:33 by Vandepitte, Leen
ISA and WoRMS release a species checklist for the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Sustainable Seabed Knowledge Initiative. ...

What can we learn from WoRMS? A remarkable insight into 600 marine species described between 2017-2021.

Added on: 2023-07-25 10:49:34 by Vandepitte, Leen
Roughly four weeks ago, a paper was published where one of our WoRMS editors dives into the metrics of new marine species discovery. The onset for this work was given five years ago, when Prof. Philippe Bouchet approached the WoRMS and MarineRegions Data Management Team with a not so everyday request for a scientific collaboration, involving WoRMS, and a deep dive into species descriptions. ...

Official launch of DecaNet, a portal for decapod biodiversity informatics

Added on: 2023-06-26 15:50:43 by Vandepitte, Leen
From today onwards, you can find all Decapods on their own portal: welcome to DecaNet! ...

WoRMS Philanthropy grants 2022

Added on: 2023-03-28 11:37:11 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
During 2022, the VLIZ Philanthropy program was able to issue three grants to support WoRMS editors in making WoRMS more complete. This resulted in about 18.000 edits and additions to WoRMS and its sub-registers. ...

WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2022

Added on: 2023-03-19 00:55:02 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
As for previous years, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has again released its annual list of the top-ten marine species described by researchers during the past year to coincide with World Taxonomist Appreciation Day on March 19th! ...

Explore the traits in WoRMS and Aphia with a brand-new R Shiny application

Added on: 2023-01-30 16:24:45 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
With this new R Shiny application, you can explore all trait information in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and its underlying Aphia database in a more advanced way, for instance by combining different traits and combining traits with standardized distributions. ...

Call for nominations for the WoRMS Top-Ten Marine Species of 2022

Added on: 2022-12-19 15:58:17 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
Once again taxonomists have continued to publish many wonderful new species throughout the last year. As we approach the end of 2022 it is time to think about nominations for The WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species of 2022! ...

Official launch of AlgaeTraits, a trait database for (European) seaweeds

Added on: 2022-12-14 15:14:15 by Vandepitte, Leen
AlgaeTraits provides standardised trait information for all European seaweeds, enabling the use of trait-based approaches over broad taxonomic, spatial and temporal scales. AlgaeTraits is a thematic subregister of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) which links to AlgaeBase, the most complete database on global algal taxonomic information. ...

Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the World Register of Marine Species

Added on: 2022-11-17 09:33:07 by Vandepitte, Leen
You might have already heard… The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year! And we do not want to let this birthday pass unnoticed… ...

Awardees for the 2022 WoRMS Achievement & Early Career Researchers Award known

Added on: 2022-11-10 13:33:03 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
This year, the WoRMS Achievement Award goes to Nicole Boury-Esnault, and the WoRMS Early Career Researchers Award was granted to Virág Venekey. Exceptionally, the WoRMS Award Committee has decided to also grant an Achievement Award posthumously to Jim Lowry. ...

WoRMS 15 years: pre-order your WoRMS t-shirt now!

Added on: 2022-11-04 08:48:32 by Vandepitte, Leen
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is releasing a one-of-a-kind t-shirt. ...

How do you use marine data hosted in Flanders?

Added on: 2022-09-24 07:24:03 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Flanders manages a large amount of marine data. To get an idea of the use and social value of this data, EWI (Science, Technology and Innovation in Flanders) launches a survey in cooperation with OECD. ...

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