News and events
Diputació de Barcelona, the latest GBIF.ES provider
You can already access the biodiversity data from Natural Parks of Diputació de Barcelona (DIBA), available in the National and International Data Portals. The Diputació de Barcelona manages a number of protected areas with an extension of 102,587 hectares and including around a hundred towns where the 70 % of Catalonia population lives. This institution […]
GBIF.ES in the 2018 Meeting of the Association of Ibero-Macaronesian Herbaria
The 2018 Meeting of the Asociation of Ibero-Macaronesian Herbaria took place in the Royal Botanical Garden on November 23rd, 2018 (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 […]
GBIF.ES joining the XVI Meeting on Citizen Science hosted by CREAF, SCB and ICHN in Barcelona
Felipe Castilla (GBIF Spain) presented the Data traking in GBIF. The Natusfera use case during the XVI Meeting CREAF SCB ICHN which take place on November 21st, 2018. This meeting was hosted by CREAF (Center for Ecological Research and Forest Applications), SCB (Catalan Society of Biology) and ICHN (Catalan Institute of Natural History) in the historical building of […]
Join the first 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 assited by experts in this taxonomic group. For this reason, […]
Technicians from the Government of Catalonia trained in using GBIF data portals
Two sessions of the workshop Use and management of GBIF international and national data portals taught by Katia Cezón and Miguel Vega (GBIF Spain) took place on 21-22 November, in the headquarters of the Territory and Sustainability Department of Barcelona, and gathered 31 environmental technicians from the Government of Catalonia. This workshop was mainly focused on […]
2018 Meeting on Biodiversity Information and Environmental Administrations in Andorra La Vella
The 10th Meeting on Biodiversity Information and Environmental Administrations took place on 24-25 October 2018 in Andorra La Vella. The event was organized by the Centre d’Estudis de la Neu i de la Muntanya d’Andorra de l’Institut d’Estudis Andorrans (CENMA-IEA), GBIF Andorra and GBIF Spain and its main goal was to create a meeting point for public officers related […]