News and events
New edition of the International Living Atlases Workshop, in Paris
The International Living Atlases Workshop took place in April 1-5th 2019, in the National Museum of Natural History of Paris and was organised by GBIF France, VertNet, Atlas of Living Australia and GBIF Spain. This workshop was one of the main activities in the CESP project granted by GBIF in the 2018 call. In this edition, […]
Biodiversity data hosted on datos.gbif.es ready to work with R software
In order to support the scientific community, that needs powerful tools to manage, visualize and analyze ecology and biodiversity data, GBIF.ES has configured the ALA4R module on the Spanish Living Atlas. ALA4R is an R programming language package, originally developed by Ben Raymond (Australian Antarctic Division), which enables the R community to directly access data and resources hosted […]
Open call for II GBIF.ES Workshop on the use of Elysia, tool for managing natural history collections
Registration period for the II GBIF.ES Workshop on the use of Elysia, tool for managing natural history collection is already opened. This workshop will take place on June 10-12, 2019 in the computer room at the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid (CSIC). The three-day hands-on workshop is addressed to curators and technicians working with natural history collections (both zoological and botanical collections), […]
Natusfera, LiquenCity and GBIF.ES in the Education Week of IFEMA
On March 27th-31st, 2019, the Education Week has been hosted in IFEMA and GBIF.ES has participated in explaining Natusfera, LiquenCity and the services provided by the Spanish node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. More information may be found in the Spanish version of this news.
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 […]