Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:05:39 +0000 en Wed, 08 May 2013 13:04:54 +0000 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:48:34 +0000 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. ]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:32:58 +0000 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:09:44 +0000 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:14:13 +0000 We are pleased to launch a new regional species database for the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS), that grew out of the World Register of Marine Species database. ]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:22:58 +0000 Dear Colleagues
It's with great sadness that I must announce you of the recent and very unexpected demise of our colleague and treasurer Frank Bisby. Undoubtedly, Frank was one of the most influential persons active in our field, and he will be sorely missed. ]]> Tue, 10 May 2011 07:36:27 +0000 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.... ]]> Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:56:10 +0000 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:12:50 +0000 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.... ]]> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:21:36 +0000 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.... ]]> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:44:48 +0000 The "World Ascidiacea Database" has just gone online as a part of the World Register of Marine Species initiative. ]]> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:20:18 +0000 We recently held our 1st meeting of the editorial board of the IOC taxonomic reference list of harmful micro algae (11-13 October 2010 in Hillerød, Denmark). The reference list is an integral part of the World Register of Marine Species database and is actively maintained by nine taxonomic experts. This taxonomic reference list is an initiative of the UNESCO IOC programme on harmful algal blooms.... ]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:00:39 +0000 WoRMS has now implemented persistent & resolvable LSIDs for taxa. For more information, click on 'webservices'. ]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:31:17 +0000 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.... ]]> Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:36:16 +0000 The World Echinoidea Database has just gone online. It contains all currently accepted scientific names for sea urchins and is progressively extended to include all published combinations of echinoid names, allowing both specialists and non-specialists to find the currently accepted name for extant sea urchins. ]]> Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:55:01 +0000 Centipedes and millipedes seem unlikely animals to find on seashores but in fact there are several species of millipede and more than forty centipedes (notably the geophilomorphs or “wire centipedes”) that are known from around high water or below on beaches around the world and there are certainly other species to be recorded from such sites.... ]]> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:35:30 +0000 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:01:48 +0000 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:55:11 +0000 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:00:00 +0000 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:37:37 +0000 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:39:59 +0000