Water Wheel March/April 2024: Freshwater Fish

Abstract

When the recipients of the annual ‘Science Oscars’ were announced in July last year, it probably came as no surprise to anyone in the freshwater research and management field that the Cape Town-based Freshwater Research Centre (FRC), together with technical partner Kartoza, won the Data for Research Award for their groundbreaking Freshwater Biodiversity Information System, better known as FBIS. This open-access, online platform for hosting, visualising and sharing freshwater biodiversity data was developed in consultation with a wide range of end users, who have seen how FBIS facilitates their own work. Executive Director of the FRC, Dr Helen Dallas, already had a good idea of what was required at the project’s inception in mid-2016 because of her experience in developing the BioBase during the 1990s and the Rivers Database in the 2000s.

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