News and events
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 […]
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 […]