Species360 Member News
01Dec 21
January 26 Webinar and Panel: “Future of Aquariums / Europe” unveils visitor research and hosts aquarium leaders
Mark your calendar for January 26, 2022, to attend our next webinar on Aquarium Trends, presented by Impacts Experience. The Impacts team presented all-new post-pandemic research in 2021, and will shift its focus to European audiences for this special webinar. Impacts helps aquariums, museums, and zoos to develop business and audience engagement strategies based on actionable data.
30Nov 21
Supporting Animal Welfare: 7 New features make it easier for institutions to record and share data
In case you missed it! Here are recent enhancements to ZIMS for Care and Welfare. Using feedback from our members, we implemented improvements that make it easier and faster to track animal welfare, model processes for peer teams, and more quickly rollout templates designed for each species.
01Feb 21
What’s New in ZIMS – sorted by husbandry, care and welfare, medical, studbooks, and more
Catching up? Here is a look at recent news and updates, including new features and what other zoo and aquatics teams are using them. Choose by category: ZIMS for MedicalZIMS…
01Dec 20
Community: Learn about Species360 members
Follow news about the Species360 member community here, including new members, members leading conservation programs, and how scientists and care teams use ZIMS in their daily work. For updates on…
24Jan 22
Conservation: Beginning with ZIMS, researchers then use DNA to analyze corals in aquariums
This paper represents a breakthrough in better identifying corals for study. The traditional approach of identifying corals by morphological features – or identifying corals by their structure -- can be challenging even in optimal conditions. By delivering a standardized and easily repeatable methodology to increase the capacity of aquaria and other facilities to assess species, scientists may use what they learn in more ideal aquaria conditions when they go to identify corals in the wild.
21Jan 22
Cancer Research: Data curated by zoos helps researchers unravel questions regarding cancer across mammals
"...Our study highlights the value of the incredible work of the zoo and aquariums that integrate and standardize their records in ZIMS."
06Jan 22
Vancouver Aquarium and Marine Rescue: ZIMS puts information “at our fingertips”
In the past, staff spent time digging for information that’s now “at our fingertips and searchable” in ZIMS, says Mackenzie Neale, Director of Animal Care at Vancouver Aquarium. Sea otter…
05Jan 22
Research Partner Program: Harvard University researchers look to ZIMS for essential data on species
Researchers at the Human Evolutionary Biology Department, Harvard University, have joined the Species360 Research Partner Program. As part of the program, the department’s Capellini Lab plans to use data from Species360's Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS) to study connections between genotype (genetic makeup) and phenotype (observable characteristics) in mammals, including nonhuman primates and humans.
01Dec 21
Photo Ark: Joel Sartore images featured in ZIMS
There is a new look on the ZIMS login and desktop screens, featuring images by famed wildlife photographer Joel Sartore. As founder of the Photo Ark, a 25-year effort by National Geographic to photograph every species in human care around the globe, Joel is an increasingly more familiar face among conservationists and educators. He often visits zoos and aquariums as he photographs individual animals representing their species.