Coming events

Utilizing cloud computing services can enable big data queries that are slow or impractical on a local machine. Public datasets containingsnapshots of all GBIF-mediated occurrence data are shared each month on the Microsoft Planetary Computer (Azure), as an Amazon AWS Open Dataset, and on a public Google GCS [...]

The 31st meeting of the GBIF Governing Board and associated events will take place in Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal, on 30 September - 4 October 2024.
30 September - GBIF committee meetings 01 October - Governing Board meeting Day 1 02 October - Symposium 03 October [...]

Join us for the next session of the technical support hour for GBIF nodes on October 2nd, 2024, at 4 pm CEST (UTC+2), where the topic is GBIF’s vocabulary server.
The GBIF Secretariat is transitioning its interpretation pipeline for controlled occurrence core fields fromJava enums to a more dynamicvocabulary [...]

The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
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Applications are now open to participate in the 2024 Nordic Symposium for Biodiversity Across the Natural and Social Sciences, to be held on 22-23 October 2024 in Trondheim, Norway.
Through two days of collaborative discussion, workshops, and writing, participants will together explore one big question: How can the revolution in [...]

Do you want to gain new skills in data management, making your data FAIR, and your workflows reproducible? Do you want training in open-source tools such as GitHub and R that can be used to achieve this?
This course is organised by Living Norway in collaboration with the University of [...]

This two-day symposium is jointly organized by GBIF and by theInstitute of Zoology of Republic of Kazakhstan with the support from the Scientific Society Tethys and Kazakhstan Programme Committee for the UNESCO Program "Man and the Biosphere " (MAB).
Meeting goals
* Raise awareness of [...]

The event is aimed at the current and aspiring coordinators of biodiversity data activities at the national and institutional levels, community managers in need of data and GBIF skills, and at the advanced students, researchers and practitioners whose studies and work involve generation and use of open biodiversity data.
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Meeting goals
The Africa nodes meeting aims to:
* Strengthen the GBIF Africa community * Provide a forum for GBIF nodes in Africa and the GBIF Secretariat to share latest updates and best practices * Showcase the relevance of GBIF data across a broad range of use cases * [...]

The International Conference on Research Infrastructures is the major professional forum for the global research infrastructure community. ICRI 2024 will bring together policymakers, research institution leaders, facility operators, users and researchers, to discuss pressing topics of interest, trends and challenges facing research infrastructures around the world.
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IPBES 11 will be preceded by regional consultations and a Stakeholder Day on 9 December 2024. Further information on these events will follow in due course.
At IPBES 11, the Plenary will consider, among other items, the thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (nexus assessment), [...]

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 [...]