Zondag 16 juni bruist het Marien Station Oostende van wetenschap, kunst & creativiteit 🫧. Van virtual reality en theater 🎭 tot proeven van zeevoedsel 🍲en een live dissectie van een zeevogel.🦤 En vooral veel doe-dingen voor jong & oud. Daags voordien (15/06), serveren we

VLIZ was honoured to host the FRDN Knowledge Hub Vlaanderen community event. Participants received a crash course in Linked Open Data (LOD). Aim of the day was to motivate researchers & data managers to use LOD to boost integrated and FAIR research (meta)data. Overall contributing

Last month, #AUV Barabas conducted a successful campaign onboard RV Sarmiento Gamboa (Unidad de Tecnología Marina (UTM-CSIC)) for #Sanimed Cruise (@CanalUGR). During 6 dives of 8h each, the VLIZ AUV-team mapped a.o. a submarine canyon axis and pointed to interesting new features for #ROV LUSO of EMEPC

Sampling macro & mesolitter @ Temse - Scheldt! VITO Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ & rivercleanup joining forces on plastic litter observations: gathering information to monitor changes when promoting citizen engagement & innovation for remediation. INSPIRE Mission Ocean Waters

If you are a researcher working at blue data infrastructures, ocean observation, or data and modelling institutions, this webinar might of interest for you. VLIZ will present how to make EurOBIS Biology metadata interoperable with Blue-Cloud VRE.

Yesterday professor Martine Leermakers, Delphine Vandeputte, Guanlei Li and our masterstudents environmental chemistry were welcomed on board of Simon Stevin 🚢⚓️ to sample seawater and sediment cores in the Belgian Coastal Zone 🌊☀️
Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ Research VUB

Today, the 2024 Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona kicks off, and #VLIZ is represented 🌊🙌 We are One Ocean #OceanDecade24 #ecop UN Ocean Decade Mission Ocean Waters

Presenting 8⃣ INSPIRE demo sites!
1/8 🌊Scheldt River🌊
Known for its important economic role, but having several plastic litter hotspots🆘❗️

🎯Intensive monitoring & collection (river water & -banks)
📍 Antwerp & Temse

➡️ Visit inspire-europe.org/locations for an in-depth look! 👀

Join us on April 25th for the conference 'Ocean Decade Meets Mission Ocean: Blue skills for a sustainable economy'. The conference brings together experts from academia, policy, industry & midfield to exchange knowledge and collaborate on the theme of 'Blue Skills'. More info

🌊Our Open Call winners are pare mapping ocean life, from the icy waters of the Arctic to the sun-kissed Mediterranean. 🌍✨

🌐Using AI imaging and citizen science, projects are uncovering the secrets of cetaceans, plankton, and benthic organisms. 🐳🔍
🙌tinyurl.com/ryrbkw4s

This past Saturday, over 2000 passionate citizens united on the Belgian 🇧🇪, French 🇫🇷 and Dutch Coast 🇱🇺 for the seventh edition of the Big Seashell survey. Together 110.000 shells of 77 species have been counted on 400 km of coast. The most counted species were the cut through

📣 Exciting news: the BERNARDO Project has officially launched! Working on #marinecarbon observations, marine #carbonaccounting and impact of the #blueeconomy on it all.
VLIZ is proud to be partner, together with #MantisConsulting , @UGent, ORG Permanent Modernity and Econopolis. Supported

🐟 Be enchanted by 'Ten Remarkable New Marine Species'! 🌟 These special animals are just a small selection of the 2000 newly described species in 2023!

1. 🦑 Meet Hannan's Pygmy Squid, the tiny superstar of the ocean. Active at night, less than a centimeter in length, but full

#VLIZrecruits : Survey Engineer Marine Autonomous Systems. Collaborate in #MarineResearch through innovative ocean observation practices using Marine Autonomous Systems! Join our international, interdisciplinary #MarineRobotics team on cutting-edge projects in research and