Developments

Sep 14, 20221 min read

Save the Date! March 29/30

Arise Day 2023 is gonna be great - and even better with you there The first Arise Day, earlier this year, was a huge success - read all...

Jul 8, 20221 min read

Sneak peek: what will Arise look like?

Biodiversity data, connected Currently the biologists and the programmers are working fairly tirelessly on gathering samples, developing...

Jun 17, 20222 min read

Digital species identification

Our development team is making great progress, says Patrick Vine You take a picture of a mushroom, or an animal track in the dunes. You...

Jun 3, 20221 min read

Job opening!

As the lead programmer in our BioCloud team, you'll have the chance to help build a unique scientific infrastructure. Here at Arise, we...

May 16, 20221 min read

Help us build the Species Database

What should it look like? And why? Tell us what you think. ARISE is busy developing a national Species Reference Database with aggregated...

Mar 31, 20221 min read

It was great having you here!

We had a full house in Naturalis and at the livestream, interaction with museum visitors, we got to see old friends again and made new...

Jan 31, 20221 min read

March 30 is ARISE Day

And registration is open as of right now In short: March 30, 2022, from 9:00-18:00, Both online and at Naturalis in Leiden, Free of...

Dec 20, 20211 min read

Save the date: March 30, ARISE Day

2021 has been a good year for ARISE, with the first data coming in, our teams beefing up, pilot projects starting off and the building of...

Nov 1, 20212 min read

Snails, knives and vices - Tough work at Team Sampling

ARISE's Team Sampling has its ambitious goal of building a reference database of multicellular organisms in the Netherlands. Every week...

Aug 5, 20212 min read

The hidden world of insects at the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen

Arise will use autonomous cameras to map insect diversity. We installed the first ones near Amsterdam this month. This pilot experiment...

Jul 29, 20212 min read

Arise goes Agile

ARISE is all about facilitating and innovating services that aid species recognition and biodiversity monitoring. In that sense it aims...

Jul 19, 20211 min read

Pilot 2: getting the soil samples right

On an early Monday morning a team of biodiversity experts gather in the fields of Wassenaar. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the...

Jun 28, 20212 min read

Passionate about fungi

Fungi biologists described eight new species that will be added to the ARISE reference database. They had some special help: from...

May 28, 20212 min read

Arise Newsletter #1: first steps

Arise is becoming a reality! The first sampling projects are taking off, we've produced the first blueprints for the infrastructure. And...

May 25, 20211 min read

Arise architecture: ready for an agile start

Yes, they look complicated. We know. It won't look like this for the end user! Arise is a unique and very ambitious vision: we're going...

Apr 20, 20212 min read

A day out taking samples

The sun carefully tries to shine through the clouds, but nevertheless it remains cold on the beach in Katwijk. The students carefully go...

Mar 19, 20213 min read

ARISE Animal Tracking Radar in ARTIS offers new perspectives

In ARTIS Royal Zoo in Amsterdam, a new radar has been installed to track aerial movement of animals. This information can be used to gain...

Jan 11, 20213 min read

Over 18 million euros to identify the full breadth of biodiversity in the Netherlands

With a groundbreaking scientific infrastructure An organized overview of all multicellular flora and fauna in the Netherlands and the...