News and events
Mosquito Alert shares open data from citizen scientists through GBIF
Mosquito Alert, a pioneering citizen science project coordinated by three Barcelona-based research centres, has published a dataset containing more than 4,000 photo-based observations of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) gathered by citizen scientists through the Mosquito Alert app. Mosquito Alert aims to monitor the spread of both the Asian tiger mosquito and a closely related species, the yellow-fever […]
Students from Madrid and Barcelona will determine the air quality through the study of lichens
Today, GBIF Spain, the Royal Botanical Garden (RJB-CSIC) of Madrid, CREAF and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) of Barcelona have launched the LiquenCity project. The scientific team associated to this project will use the slogan “look for urban lichens and know your city quality air” to make known these organisms to roughly a thousand […]
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 […]