News and events
The Iberoamerican Network of Participatory Science (RICAP) begins its consolidation process in the Conference of the Citizen Science Association
On March 13-17th 2019, the Conference of the Citizen Science Association (CSA) has been hosted in the Raleigh Convention Center (NC, USA). More than 300 people from all around the world have participated in this event which has been also supported by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. GBIF.ES was part of the organizers of […]
Irene Rubio has finished her vocational training in GBIF Spain
In March, Irene Rubio, a student from the Master on Biodiversity of Tropical Areas and its Conservation, hosted by the Menendez Pelayo International University (UIMP) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has finished her vocational training at the Coordination Unit of GBIF Spain, with a total duration of 40 hours. She has developed a […]
Natusfera was presented as a useful tool for Ecology in the I Conference of SIBECOL
A workshop and two projects based in data from Natusfera have highlighted the relevance of this application for knowing how species behave to the challenges of the 21st century. Results were presented during the I Conference of the Iberian Society of Ecology (SIBECOL). The 1st Iberian Ecological Society Meeting & XIV AEET Meeting was hosted in Barcelona […]
GBIF.ES supports GBIF Ecuador by training on how to organize the 2019 City Nature Challenge
On February 11-15th 2019, Felipe Castilla (GBIF.ES) and Jaume Piera (ICM-CSIC) have participated as trainers in several meeting, which have taken place in Ecuador, for the preparation of Quito in the 2019 City Nature Challenge (CNC 2019). GBIF Spain has also strengthened some services of GBIF Ecuador, taking advantage of the 16-years experience of this […]
Join the second bioblitz of the LiquenCity project
The citizen science project LiquenCity aims to know the lichen diversity living in the trees of Madrid and Barcelona and relate this information with air quality. In order to achieve this goal, it needs the participation of citizens from both cities to record lichens specimens assisted by experts in this taxonomic group. For this reason, […]
Fotografía y Biodiversidad, new biodiversity data provider of GBIF Spain
Fotografía y Biodiversidad association shares more than 100,000 occurrences of invertebrates through GBIF The non-for profit organization Fotografía y Biodiversidad, which was created in 2010 to consolidate and manage the Biodiversidad Virtual platform, has just made accessible more than 100,000 occurrence records of invertebrates in the GBIF data portals. These data can be now visualized […]