A year since Dr. Daniel Pauly received a copy of the book “Eponym Dictionary of Fishes,” this resource has been instrumental in supplying the fundamental information on the origins of all eponyms in FishBase –a task that’s now nearing its completion. Recently, the publishers reached out to Dr. Pauly to…
The 22nd FishBase and SeaLifeBase Symposium, themed “Fishes in Changing Ecosystems,” will be hosted in Thessaloniki, Greece on 2-3 September 2024, at the KEDEA Building of the Aristotle University Campus. Day 1️⃣: Advances in the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT)Contributions test the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory’s applicability to new topics or taxa,…
On the 22nd of February 2023, a delightful presence graced the halls of the Q-quatics office in the Philippines as Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, Director General of WorldFish and Senior Director of Aquatic Food Systems at CGIAR, visited the office of the Q-quatics Executive Director. WorldFish is one of the…
Earlier this year, we announced an exciting development on AquaMaps, unveiling the groundbreaking workflow named AquaX. AquaX stands as a cutting-edge ensemble modeling framework that encompasses the next-generation AquaMaps, along with several other species distribution models and a brand-new website. Presenting the official AquaX logo. The representation of ‘Aqua’ in…
In the context of corporate branding and marketing, ‘logo’ pertains to the visual symbol or emblem that represents a company or organization, serving as a unique and easily recognizable embodiment of the brand. They are typically designed to convey the company’s identity, values, and undertakings. For Q-quatics databases FishBase, SeaLifeBase,…
By Daniel Pauly At the last annual meeting of the FishBase Consortium, held 5-7 September 2023 in Tervuren, Belgium, it was decided that the next FishBase/SeaLifeBase Symposium, traditionally held before the FishBase Consortium meeting, to be held in early September 2024 in Thessaloniki, Greece, would last two days, with the…
Position ID Research Assistant Hours Full-time Project-based Location Los Baños, Laguna Salary Commensurate with required qualifications Roles and Responsibilities Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. seeks a Research Assistant with the following responsibilities: Search and compile references relevant to the project; Extract and encode marine and freshwater species data primarily on taxonomy, distribution,…
Position ID: Software Engineer 1 Hours: Full-time Location: Los Baños, Laguna, Phils. Salary: Commensurate with required qualifications Key Roles and Responsibilities Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. seeks a Software Engineer from a pool of local professionals with the following responsibilities: program dynamic webpages for information systems maintained by Q-quatics (e.g. FishBase, SeaLifeBase),…
FishBase (www.fishbase.org) is the largest global information system on fishes. It provides encyclopedic information on all described fishes and includes many tools for scientists in a large array of ichthyological disciplines. With about 700,000 visits per month, it is the most successful database on any group of living organisms. SeaLifeBase…
In over 30 years of continuous operation and development, FishBase is now the largest, most extensively accessed and one of the most highly cited public resources in the history of scientific research, a new study reveals. In a paper published in the special edition of Cybium exclusive for FishBase, a…
