News and events
2019 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
From January 23rd, the 2019 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge call is opened to encourage innovative uses of and applications for the open biodiversity research infrastructure supported by GBIF. This year, the Challenge will award €34,000 for entries which develop new applications, visualizations, methods, workflows or analyses, often (but not always) making use of the GBIF API to access data. […]
Open call for II GBIF.ES online Workshop on Biodiversity Data Quality
The subscription period is now open for the II GBIF.ES online Workshop on Biodiversity Data Quality that will take place on March 12-27, 2019 in the GBIF.ES e-learning platform, Chamilo. This workshop is aimed to provide the theoretical base and introduce different tools useful for controlling data quality, from the data collection to the publication process, through their systematization, […]
2019 GBIF.ES Annual Training Plan
The Coordination Unit of GBIF Spain launches its ANNUAL TRAINING PLAN for 2019, where you will find 9 workshops on diverse topics. Some of these workshops are: XV GBIF.ES Ecological Niche Modelling Workshop II GBIF.ES Online Workshop on the Management, Visualization, and Analysis of Ecological Data by using R software (beginner level) II GBIF.ES Online Workshop […]
Call for nominations opens for 2019 GBIF Young Researchers Award
We are welcome to receive nominations for the GBIF Young Researchers Award 2019. 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 […]
Presentation of GBIF and Natusfera in the Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
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GBIF Spain joined the XII Scientific Marathon in the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid by presenting the results from the Spanish participation in the 2018 City Nature Challenge
The XII Scientific Marathon hosted by the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid took place on December 10th, 2018. This event gathered the presentation of 33 studies and works from different fields like ecosystems, evolution, flora, mycology, biogeography, conservation, citizen science, scientific communication, etc. GBIF Spain joined this marathon through the participation of Felipe Castilla, who […]