Coming events

In the October issue of the support hour, the Data Products team will explain what the current routine is to improve the stability of occurrence urls (IDs).See this news item for some background. We will go over what our system checks and what can be done when changes are [...]

The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) annual conference in 2023 will be a hybrid meeting, hosted in Hobart, Tasmania by theAtlas of Living Australia, ALA and the National Research Collections Australia, NRCA .
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The Global Conference on Biodiversity and Monitoring is organized by GEO BON and its partners between 10-13 October 2023 in Montreal, Canada.
One year after COP15 of the UN CBD and the landmark agreement of a Global Biodiversity Framework, the GEO BON global conference will focus on the grand challenge [...]

The 30th meeting of the GBIF Governing Board and associated events will take place in Canberra, Australia, on 15-20 October 2023.
15 October - Nodes Training - Day 1 16 October - Nodes Training - Day 2 + NSG meeting 17 October - GBIF committee meetings 18 [...]

Organized by the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA), International Data Week brings together a global community of data scientists and data stewards; researchers from all domains; data, interoperability and informatics experts from all fields; industry leaders, entrepreneurs [...]

Why is data citation crucial for biodiversity data?
Data citation is a fundamental step in promoting transparency, credibility, and collaboration in the field of biodiversity research. It ensures that the hard work of data collectors and curators is recognized and facilitates the sharing and integration of valuable biodiversity datasets.
This [...]

In collaboration with Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), Thailand and the Thailand Pest Management Association (TPMA) as co-organizations, Prof. Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap from Kasetsart University (KU), is planning to host the Asia Pacific Conference on Mosquito and Vector Control (AMV) held in Chiang Mai between 27 and [...]

Join ecologists from around the world in December 2023 for Europe’s largest and most welcoming conference dedicated to ecology.
Each year our Annual Meeting attracts over 1200 delegates and provides opportunities to meet new colleagues, develop your career, learn new skills, and share your science with the global ecological community.

The conference will be a key moment for governments, leaders, maritime sectors, philanthropy, universities, private sector, NGOs and more, to take stock of the achievements of the first three years of the Ocean Decade and define a collective vision for the coming years. Participants will benefit from concrete examples and [...]

The IBC 2024 XX International Botanical Congress in Madrid will address the following main topics:
* Systematics, phylogenetics, biogeography and evolution * Ecology, environment and global change, including invasive species and plant-animal interactions * Biodiversity and conservation * Structure, physiology and development, including Evo-Devo * Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics [...]

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The main aims of the International Mycological Congress are to:
* Engage the youth
* Facilitate face-to-face meetings
* Organize hands-on workshops in mycology
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Organized every two years, the ISME symposia are the largest not-for-profit international meetings addressing the wide range of topics in Microbial Ecology. With an average delegate number of 2200 people representing over 50 countries worldwide we are truly international.
The next meeting, ISME19, will be held in Cape Town, South [...]

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