News and events
GBIF.org surpasses 1 billion species occurrence records
GBIF.org topped 1 billion species occurrence records on 4 July 2018, thanks to a surge of datasets from the French National Inventory of Natural Heritage (l’Inventaire National du Patrimoine Naturel), which included this observation of a frilled anemone (Metridium dianthus) off Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, a French archipelago in the northwestern Atlantic. The record for this marine invertebrate animal […]
Extranjeros
Vivir en el extranjero, un sueño de muchos, que si no se hace de la forma adecuada se puede transformar en una pesadilla. A medida que evolucionamos y tomamos más conciencia del abanico de opciones que nos presenta el mundo actual se nos despiertan anhelos de expandir nuestra visión impulsándonos a hacer uso de las […]
Natusfera and LiquenCity presented to the teaching community from Madrid
Felipe Castilla and Carmen Lujano (GBIF-Spain) presented the citizen science platform Natusfera and its associated project LiquenCity during the II Team Meeting of the Environmental Education Programme, from the Department of Education of the Madrid Community that took place in Villaviciosa de Odón in June 11th, 2018. Around 30 teachers and educators attended the event. The presentation delivered by […]
Open call for XIV GBIF.ES Workshop on Ecological Niche Modelling
Registration period for the XIV GBIF.ES Workshop on Ecological Niche Modelling is already opened. This workshop will take place in September 4-7, 2018 in the computer room at the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid (CSIC). This training event aims to teach participants on terms and techniques to be able to run species distribution models through the use of the R statistical application. This workshop will be conducted by Blas […]
Learning materials of the GBIF.ES Workshop on “Biodiversity Data Publication” available
The second edition of the GBIF.ES Workshop “Publication of biodiversity data in GBIF and scientific journals” was held in June 12-14, 2018 in the Royal Botanic Garden-CSIC. The workshop was focused on the following topics in order to make users familiar with the process of data publishing through GBIF: standardizing data using the Darwin Core standard, […]
Natusfera has been officially presented in the ECSA Conference 2018
From June 3-5, 2018, the Second International Conference of ECSA (European Citizen Science Association) has taken place in the Maison Communale de Plainplanais in Geneva (Switzerland), with more than 400 participants from all around the world. Felipe Castilla (GBIF.ES) presented the poster “Natusfera. A GBIF friendly citizen science platform“, in which the new developments of Natusfera were […]