Past events

Expected audience: Node Managers and Node staff
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Join us for an update on the Global Registry of Scientific Collections .
In this community call we will discuss the progress of the GRSciColl roadmap implementation .
Agenda
* Review of the data schema: output of the survey, changes being implemented and mapping to Latimer Core * Support [...]

Symposium organized jointly by Biodiversa+ and GBIF, to discuss the requirements for national biodiversity monitoring hubs in the context of proposals for a European Biodiversity Observation Coordination Centre.
The symposium, which follows a similar event in Brussels in October 2022 alongside the 29th GBIF Governing Board, will explore how [...]

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 topic for the next Technical Support Hour for nodes is A general introduction to GBIFs technical documentation. Last year the GBIF Secretariat released the first version of the technical documentation and work is ongoing to improve and enrich the documentation. We will give you an introduction to what information [...]

Be part of one of the leading citizen science events in Europe, to discuss and network with citizen science practitioners, researchers, activists, scientists, policymakers, artists, and more.
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B-Cubed’s hackathon is planned as a 4-day event, bringing together biodiversity informaticians, researchers, and practitioners who are passionate about leveraging biodiversity data for impactful solutions.
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The ARISE project is building an infrastructure that will identify and monitor all multicellular species in the Netherlands.
On March 27 the ARISE day will provide updates on ARISE, keynote speeches, workshops, entertainment, meet old friends, make new ones. All lectures and activities will be in English.
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This conference will focus on utilizing biodiversity data to bridge the gap with Policy.
Meet GBIF Secretariat deputy director Tim Hirsch at the following session during the EBR III conference
Monday, 25 March 2024: 10:40-11:10 GBIF’s role in empowering biodiversity research and policy Session 1
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MarineBon meeting to strengthen links between national MBON teams and partners and identify or develop common activities and outputs. Followed by a species distribution modelling workshop to trace a roadmap to move from research to operations in the ability to map distributions of species and habitats using ‘Species Distribution Models’ [...]

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is seeking to improve its biodiversity data disclosure practices by sharing biodiversity data generated through EBRD-financed projects with GBIF, the world’s largest open source repository of biodiversity data. Data sharing with GBIF has potential to make a substantial contribution to [...]

The theme for the March 2024 session of the Technical Support Hour for Node is GBIF’s data quality workflow. We will go through how published data is processed regarding quality checks, show how you can get an overview of the flags and issues of datasets, how users provide publicly accessible [...]

Desde el 2013, cada 3 de marzo, se celebra el Día Mundial de la Vida Silvestre con el objetivo de crear conciencia sobre el incalculable valor de la fauna y flora silvestres para la naturaleza y el bienestar humano, la urgente necesidad de combatir los delitos contra el medioambiente [...]

During the next Data Use Club <> webinar, three speakers from the Science and Decision Support Team at theAtlas of Living Australia (ALA) will share their insights on how early surveillance and incursion detection of invasive species is a crucial component of an effective biosecurity system. Australia is a [...]

Join the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) for the first webinar of 2024 showcasing a selection of amazing projects from the Australian Biodiversity Data Mobilisation Program. This important initiative supports the mobilisation of Australia’s biodiversity data which may not yet be digital, making it available through the ALA, and [...]

This workshop, organized in Croatia as part of the CESP project “CroMent” (CESP2023-006) , is a full week of GBIF immersion. Next to a GBIF community workshop, where it will be taught on how GBIF works, there will also be two full days on data cleaning and publication. These two [...]

The two organisations will come to together to develop a joint GBIF-OBIS action plan to further support collaboration between the two infrastructures.
Participation by invitation only.
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The theme for February session of the Technical Support Hour for Node, is DNA data publishing. For this session, we welcome Tobias Guldberg Frøslev from the Participation and Engagment team. Tobias will present the resource currently available for sharing DNA-derived data - with a focus on a new [...]

As the BID programme concludes, the GBIF Secretariat is dedicated to facilitating opportunities to share best practices identified by BID project teams and partner.
The knowledge exchange webinar will:
* Provide a platform for BID project teams to showcase key achievements and impacts of their BID-funded projects. * [...]

SBDI Days: Towards data-driven ecology is hosted by the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure and will take place on January 24th-25th 2024 at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.
The event will offer keynotes and presentations, posters, demonstrations, and time to mingle and exchange ideas about data driven [...]

A transformative three-day hackathon titled Harnessing Digital Twinning for Sustainable Agriculture: Predictive Characterisation and Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives, takes place from January 23rd to 25th, 2024 in Oslo, Norway.
The event, promises to unravel the immense potential of digital twinning in revolutionizing global agricultural practices.
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This January, we celebrate one year of Technical Support Hour for Nodes !
In the first session of 2024, Paloma Shimabukuro will give you an overview of what is currently available for publishing health data on GBIF. Paloma is the GBIF contractor behind theGBIF health Helpdesk <> and is [...]

The 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners will present their work to theGBIF Data Use Club <> community.
Dorothy Akoth , master's student atMakarere University in Uganda, will present her research in improving the knowledge of the distribution and imperilment status of 110 native fish species outside the iconic [...]

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.

Join GBIF Secretariat communications manager Kyle Copas at the following sessions during the AGU Fall Meeting 2023 —or seek him out elsewhere during the meeting.
Monday, 12 December 2023: 17:05-17:15 How Biodiversity Data Supports Research on Climate-driven Changes in Patterns of Human Diseases Session: GH14A: Advances in [...]

In the December session, we will explain the new features of Integrated Publishing Toolkit Version 3.0 (IPT3).
For some background information, you can read our release information here .
Mikhail Podolskiy from the Informatics team will join the session. We will be happy to answer any question relating or [...]

Join us for an update on the Global Registry of Scientific Collections. In this community call we will focus on the first item of the GRSciColl road map: the review of the data schema.
Agenda:
* Welcome and introduction * Data Schema and Road Map Update * Q&A and [...]

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 GBIF Secretariat communications manager Kyle Copas at the following meeting “Transmitting the value of GBIF at national scale” at the NBN Conference at the National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh.
The theme of the conference will follow the NBN Trust Strategy 2022-2027 “Making data work for nature” with each [...]

This event focuses on: Reviewing the latest advances in EO and Earth System Science across domains and specially to showcase the latest ESA and EC funded results, projects (e.g., ESA Science Clusters), and initiatives as a basis for networking and interdisciplinary science.
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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.
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In this November session, we will explain how we identify related occurrence records on GBIF (which is sometimes referred to as the GBIF "data clustering" feature). For some background information, you can read our blogposthere . Tim Robertson from the Informatics team will join the session. We will be [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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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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 [...]

Enhancing capacity to mobilize and use biodiversity data effectively to support the Global Biodiversity Framework
This GBIF- and EU-hosted symposium brings together key stakeholders, including representatives from funded projects, funders, aligned initiatives, and policymakers to reflect on the progress to date of theBiodiversity Information for Development <> (BID) programme. The [...]

Our next community webinar will explore another example of how the new data model <> expands the possibilities for evolving and enriching the Darwin Core standard, this time taken from theWorldFAIR project led byCODATA and the Research Data Alliance .
GBIF and Embrapa are leading adjacent work [...]

During this Zoom event, you will have an opportunity to preview the agendas for the Global Nodes Training and Global Nodes Meeting to be held inCanberra Australia 15-17 October .
Even if you are unable to attend the events in Canberra, we encourage you to attend thisvirtual event to [...]

The GBIF technical support hour for Nodes is back!
For this session, we have a guest, Daniel Noesgaard from the Communication team, who will explain how GBIF tracks literature citations of GBIF data. How the citations are found, labelled, and integrated in the GBIF index. The Data Product team [...]

El objetivo de este evento es dar a conocer el estado del arte de la gestión y uso de las colecciones biológicas y la implementación de sistemas de datos abiertos de biodiversidad en Latinoamérica mediante el intercambio de experiencias internacionales (Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, México y Chile).
El simposio se [...]

In a world where biodiversity and ecosystem services are at high risk, business as usual is no longer possible. Transformation of how societies deal with natural resources is much needed, but requires a better understanding of how ecological and social-ecological systems respond to change and human intervention. Ecological Modelling thus [...]

IPBES 10 will be preceded by regional consultations and a Stakeholder Day on 27 August 2023. Further information on these events will follow in due course.
At IPBES 10, the Plenary will consider, among other items, the thematic assessment of invasive alien species, as well as requests, inputs and suggestions [...]

A community call with network members who are running GBIF's hosted portal service <> will provide an opportunity for introducing some new teams, sharing updates on progress, and discussing potential new features.
Agenda
| Time | Topic | Speaker | | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------| | 14:00–14:05 |Welcome and [...]

One of the challenges to open access biodiversity data in Asia is the lack of technical skills among data holders to mobilize it and make it available. The GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization workshop trains data holders in project management, data capture, data management and data publication, with a focus on [...]

The Ecological Society of America advances the science and practice of ecology and supports ecologists throughout their careers. The field of ecology has much to offer in addressing pressing ecological problems at all scales. Ecologists working in the private sector (e.g., as consultants, for industry, or in NGOs) and public [...]

ICCB is the premier global meeting for conservation scientists and professionals, including researchers, students, agency personnel, environmental educators, practitioners, and other conservation stakeholders. Attendees gather for lively discussions and scientific presentations on the nexus between biodiversity conservation and genetics, ecology, biogeography, anthropology, history, psychology, economics, conservation marketing, religion, and more.

Call for Symposia Proposals - Deadline 31, October, 2022

The Freshwater Biological Association FBA will be hosting SEFS13 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England.