News and events
“The Global Biodiversity Information Facility after 20 years”, first GBIF Director’s Seminar in Madrid
On February 19 Joe Miller – GBIF Executive Secretary – will conduct the seminar “The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) after 20 years”. This event will take place at 12 pm at the Royal Botanic Garden (RJB-CSIC) in Madrid. During the lecture, Mr Miller will talk about GBIF as a reference infrastructure providing anyone, anywhere, […]
GBIF.ES in the 2019 Meeting of the Association of Ibero-Macaronesian Herbaria
The 2019 Meeting of the Asociation of Ibero-Macaronesian Herbaria took place in the Royal Botanical Garden on January 31st, 2020 (AHIM). Cristina Villaverde, Technical Coordinator of the Spanish Node of GBIF, presented the last news of GBIF with relevance to the AHIM partners. She made a summary of the activities carried out by the GBIF.ES in […]
Workshop on Data Mobilisation for biodiversity data-holding institutions from Zimbabwe
On January 30-31, 2020, GBIF Zimbabwe (GBIF.ZW) organized a training workshop on Data Mobilisation addressed to experts from biodiversity data-holding institutions from Zimbabwe. This workshop was held at the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) and it has been possible thanks to the previous knowledge acquired for some GBIF.ZW staff during a previous meeting with staff […]
Call for nominations opens for 2020 GBIF Young Researchers Award
We are welcome to receive nominations for the GBIF Young Researchers Award 2020. This call is addressed to Master and Ph.D. students working with GBIF data in their studies. The main objective of the award is to foster innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students who are deploying GBIF-enabled data in master’s […]
GBIF.ES teaches staff from the Diputación de Barcelona (DIBA) about biodiversity data portals and explore ways to collaborate with GBIF Andorra
On January 21, Katia Cezón and Miguel Vega (GBIF.ES) capacitated 27 environmental technicians from the Diputación de Barcelona (DIBA) to use the GBIF global and national data portals. During the workshop, students learnt how to explore data, refine the search, analzye and download data from the GBIF.ES Data Portal. There was also time to present […]
2020 GBIF.ES Annual Training Plan
Based on the results from the survey carried out during the last year to know what are the training needs of the Spanish-speakers GBIF community, the Coordination Unit of GBIF Spain launches its ANNUAL TRAINING PLAN for 2020, where you will find 10 workshops focused on different topics. These workshops are: GBIF.ES workshop: Use of […]