The next edition of the LifeWatch.be Users & Stakeholders Meeting will be organized on 15 and 16 October 2020. Due to the current Covid-19 situation, this year's edition of the LifeWatch Users & Stakeholders Meeting will be entirely online!
On day 1 (October 15th) the Belgian LifeWatch partners will bring a series of user stories, while on day 2 (October 16th), specific aspects of the Belgian LifeWatch infrastructure will be demonstrated.
Registration is mandatory. Please register here.
After registration you will receive a personal Zoom link that will be valid for both days.
Agenda:
Day 1 – Thursday October 15th 2020: User stories
10:00-10:20: General introduction LifeWatch Belgium
10:20-10:35: The World Ocean Assessment, a global exercise supported by the LifeWatch Species Information Backbone (Leen Vandepitte, VLIZ)
10:35-10:50: Downstream migration through a shipping canal: challenges on the road (Jenna Vergeynst, UGent)
10:50-11:00: Interactive questionnaire: which training is needed in the future?
11:00-11:15: Comparison of methods to model species habitat networks for decision-making in nature conservation: the case of the wildcat in southern Belgium (Axel Bourdouxhe, LifeWatch-WB)
11:15-11:30: mARS/POLA3R (Biodiversity.aq)
11:30-11:45: The need for accurate and comprehensive DNA sequence databases to reliably identify species of policy concern (Kenny Meganck and Sophie Gombeer, BopCo)
11:45-12:00: 15 minutes of questions
12:00-12:10: Closure of day 1 (outlook, prospects)
Day 2 – Friday October 16th 2020: Demonstrations
10:00-10:05: Short introduction
10:05-10:25: LifeWatch data R package (VLIZ)
10:25-10:45: Agouti: A platform for managing wildlife camera-trapping projects (INBO)
10:45-11:05: Exploring the landscape via the ecotopes with GIS software (LifeWatch-WB)
11:05-11:25: POLA3R (Biodiversity.aq)
11:25-11:45: The process of DNA-based species identification: bushmeat as a case story (BopCo)
Link to the agenda: https://www.lifewatch.be/en/events/users-stakeholders-meeting-2020
Link to the registration page: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldOmgqzIsHtXvmOaVKUELOG3P9BY8jI-B