Nora Escribano becomes first Spaniard to win GBIF Young Researchers Award

Nora Escribano becomes first Spaniard to win GBIF Young Researchers Award

Nora Escribano, a Ph.D candidate at the University of Navarra (UNAV), has been named as one of two recipients of the 2017 GBIF Young Researchers Award. Escribano and her co-recipient, Brazilian graduate student Itanna Oliveira, will each receive a €5,000 prize and recognition at GBIF’s 24th governing board in Helsinki on 26 Sept 2017. This year’s award specifically called for the mobilization and publication of exemplary sampling-event datasets from ecological research. Escribano’s submission comprises a portion of the dataset flowing from the Hydrographical Confederation of the Ebro, a network originally established to fulfill the requirements of the European Water Framework Directive. In GBIF Spain are very proud of Nora and feel very attached to her work. Her research represents the next in a long series of collaborations between the University of Navarra Museum of Zoology and GBIF Spain, as MZNA representatives have actively supported the activities of GBIF Spain and shared data through GBIF for many years.