Coming events

A community call with network members who are currently running GBIF's hosted portal service <>.
The meeting provides updates on progress aligning GBIF.org and Hosted Portals, as well as addressing community feedback.
Anyone not currently involved in a hosted portal who wants to learn more can emailhostedportals@gbif.org to request [...]

An international conference for advancing our understanding of ecosystems within a pan-European network of sites, platforms, researchers, and stakeholders to facilitate collaborative, inter- and transdisciplinary science including biogeoscience, biodiversity research, and social ecology (Conference programme under development).
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This workshop is a side-event of the 5th Annual WAASuN Meeting
This two-day workshop, jointly organized by the GBIF <> and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) , introduces early-career vector disease researchers to the practicalities of publishing disease vector data through global open-access [...]

The conference will be preceded by workshops on the 23rd of June and followed by a post-conference excursion on 26th June.
This conference features a pre-conference workshop by Neotoma Paleoecology Database for launching a aeDNA database. There will also be opportunities to learn more about the history and current directions [...]

A community call with network members who are currently running GBIF's hosted portal service <>.
The meeting provides updates on progress aligning GBIF.org and Hosted Portals, as well as addressing community feedback.
Anyone not currently involved in a hosted portal who wants to learn more can emailhostedportals@gbif.org to request [...]

The hands-on course is designed to teach users how to publish biodiversity data through GBIF. This edition of the course includes presentations on how to publish occurrence data derived from DNA (including environmental DNA), and ecological data through the Humboldt extension. The course is aimed at researchers or teachers, curators [...]

Join us on 9 July 2025 for a 90-minute session exploring leveraging remote sensing data alongside GBIF’s biodiversity datasets. This session will explore how to access airborne, spaceborne, and in situ remote sensing datasets including LiDAR, imaging spectroscopy and thermal sensor datasets.
Using Python and various APIs, this session will [...]

The Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural History Museum (PSUNHM), in collaboration with the Bee Research Unit of the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, will be holding the “Workshop on Biology and Taxonomy of Thai Wild Bees” from July 16–19, 2025, at the Halabala Wildlife Research Station, Narathiwat [...]

This hands-on course will explain the principles of data quality and seek their application through data detection and cleaning practices, with practical examples. Data quality is one of the most important aspects that determines the potential use of a dataset. This quality is determined by multiple factors that integrate the [...]

The Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting is being held Aug 10-15, 2025 in Baltimore, MD. This year's meeting theme isEcology is Everywhere.
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The School in 2025 is dedicated to modelling of soil invertebrate habitats and biodiversity. The program includes lectures and practical sessions by leading scientists in the area. The practical sessions will be divided into two levels: for beginners and those already experienced in species distribution modelling. The working languages are [...]

The conference will showcase advances within public and federal collections, emphasizing opportunities for intra- and international collaboration and data integration across all domains of biodiversity and related sciences, including human health and food security as well as the environmental, ecological, and climate sciences.
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This joint conference in Bogotá brings together members of our biodiversity networks, alongside hundreds of scientists, researchers, practitioners and other experts from around the world.
Come share your knowledge and experience, help us transform our understanding of the state and trends of biodiversity, and learn how together our work contributes [...]

Expanding on the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative 's previous events (GSBI), the 4th Global Soil Biodiversity Conference in Victoria, Canada will convene the world’s leading experts in this interdisciplinary field of soil biodiversity science to present and discuss recent advances addressing the urgency of meeting global challenges which link to [...]