When Armi Torres joined FishBase at age 25, she couldn’t have predicted the turns her career as a marine biologist would take. For years, the ocean had been the compass that guided her professional path so little did she know that she would end up diving into the depths of…
Emily Capuli says that when she started working for FishBase three decades ago, her hair was darker and longer. She may look different now but her interest in documenting the fishes found globally has not changed a bit. She continues to do this by ‘fishing’ for new species and documenting taxonomic…
The year 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of FishBase and 15th anniversary of SeaLifeBase, two online global biodiversity information systems that, together, provide biological and ecological information for more than 110,000 aquatic species of the world. As part of a year-long digital campaign aimed at celebrating the anniversaries of FishBase and SeaLifeBase in times of…
To cap the year 2020, we would like to acknowledge and send our heartfelt appreciation to all the sponsors and of FishBase, SeaLifeBase and AquaMaps. It has been an extraordinary and extremely challenging year for everyone all over the world, but because of your unwavering support, our work continues and…
Who supports FishBase and SeaLifeBase? Maintaining big data projects takes a lot of people to conduct research, populate databases, verify information, and make the data accessible. It also requires a lot of material and financial resources. Creating and keeping FishBase and SeaLifeBase accurate and updated is in part possible thanks…
On the fifth episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Dr Nicolas Bailly tells the story of how he took part in the creation of SeaLifeBase by taking an empty shell of the FishBase database structure and populating it with information from the Catalogue of Life (CoL). He also explains how SeaLifeBase has evolved…
FishBase was born and SeaLifeBase . The processes and efforts behind the creation of these two databases have been complex and enormous, involving dozens of staff members and thousands of collaborators. But how much information have these global biodiversity information systems gathered in the past few decades, really? This video,…
The year 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of FishBase and 15th anniversary of SeaLifeBase, two online global biodiversity information systems that, together, provide biological and ecological information on more than 110,000 marine species. To celebrate these milestones in the times of physical distancing, we have launched a year-long digital campaign that…
ANNOUNCEMENT: Given our current circumstances during this quarantine period brought about by COVID-19, the data cut-off for mirror updates of FishBase and SeaLifeBase scheduled on 30 March 2020 (Monday) is postponed until further notice. Thus, our April 2020 mirror update for FishBase and SeaLifeBase will be delayed as well. …