News and events
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 […]
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, […]