News URMO website, as a tribute to Jacob van der Land Added on: 2011-12-21 11:32:10 by Appeltans, Ward The UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) was the first attempt to compile an electronic list all marine species during the 1990’s. It was invented and developed by Jacob van der Land at the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden (and several colleagues). URMO and other databases (such as the European Register of Marine Species) were the starting points for the current World Register of Marine Species. The URMO list is no longer actively maintained and is completely adopted by the World Register of Marine Species. ... [Read more] The Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), host institute of the WoRMS database, is now officially a World Data Centre. Added on: 2011-11-25 10:26:18 by Appeltans, Ward 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, of which only 4 deal with marine data management. ... [Read more] In Memoriam Jacob van der Land (1935-2011) Added on: 2011-10-27 09:35:14 by Hoeksema, Bert W. Dr. Jacob van der Land passed away on Sunday 23 October 2011, 76 years old. He spent many of his productive years - before and after his retirement - on the Unesco Register of Marine Species, the European Register of Marine Species, and indirectly also on WoRMS. ... [Read more] WoRMS frequently mentioned at the World Conference of Marine Biodiversity 2011 Added on: 2011-10-11 09:56:28 by Appeltans, Ward 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] The World Polychaeta Database launched Added on: 2011-09-19 13:21:24 by Read, Geoff 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] [Add] [Older news... ]

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Appeltans W, Bouchet P, Boxshall GA, Fauchald K, Gordon DP, Hoeksema BW, Poore GCB, van Soest RWM, Stöhr S, Walter TC, Costello MJ. (eds) (2011). World Register of Marine Species. Accessed at http://www.marinespecies.org on 2012-02-04.

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