News 2022

On December 7-19, 2022, COP-15, the UN Conference on Biological Diversity, takes place in Montreal, Canada. So far only tentative negotiations to halt the loss of biodiversity.At the meeting, the parties must agree on a new global framework and new international goals for biological diversity. The ambition is to stop...

Vikten av biologisk mångfald för alla levande varelser på jorden, inklusive mänskligheten, kan inte överskattas. Utan rik biologisk mångfald och robusta ekosystem hotas vår vatten- och livsmedelsförsörjning, och vår förmåga att bekämpa framtidens sjukdomar och epidemier försvagas. Dessutom är klimatets och biologiska mångfaldens välmående starkt förbundna, eftersom välfungerande ekosystem reglerar...

We are happy to welcome Margret Steinthorsdottir as the new Director of SBDI.Margret is originally from Iceland and moved to Denmark as a teenager. She holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Geology/Palaeontology from the University of Copenhagen. After a few years in Chicago, USA, where she worked as a...

We have become accustomed to systems like cap and trade being used to reduce the climate impact of businesses. Now there is a growing interest in using environmental DNA and open biodiversity data for corporate biodiversity impact reporting. Some experts even think it might be possible to create biodiversity impact...

TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases hosted at the World Health Organization, GigaScience Press and GBIF have announced a second call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal.This call builds...

Two international teams led from Brazil and the United States earn selection for reusable software packages addressing data fitness-for-use; second-prize winner deploys machine learning to extract species interactions data from GBIF-enabled research papers.bdc, which integrates available data-cleaning tools into a single toolkit, and GridDER, which identifies potential sources of inaccuracy arising...

To assist efforts to fill gaps in primary biodiversity data on freshwater species, GBIF will sponsor the article processing charges—normally €624—for the first sixteen (16) manuscripts accepted by the Journal of Limnology to describe datasets:with clear research relevance for species inhabiting or dependent on freshwater habitatswith more than 5,000 presence records new...

Interested to work with marine invasions?LifeWatch ERIC currently offer a scholarship to develop anlaytical methods for early detection and monitoring of marine alien species with genetic methods. Deadline 31. august 2022. Read more and apply at the site of the LifeWatch ERIC Internal Joint Initiative (IJI).

Upgrades to improve computing performance during the summer and early fall.The SBDI team is now upgrading and moving the SBDI platform to a new OpenStack provider to make the system more robust and capable. After the move is completed, SBDI tools and services will be backed by the resources of...

Following a successful recruitment process Margret Steinthorsdottir will be appointed as director of SBDI.The position covers 50% Managing Director of SBDI and 50% working on objectives in regard to related topics benefitting SBDI and the museum. Margret holds a PhD in Biology and Environmental Science from the University College Dublin...

Do you have already collected soil biodiversity data? Then you can seek grant mobilization of your data. The call solicits applications by researchers/research groups from the group of SoilBON collaborators, for projects and processes related to digital data mobilization of already collected soil biodiversity data. Soil biodiversity data holders not...

The BiCIKL project invites submissions of Expression of Interest (EoI) to the First BiCIKL Open Call for projects. The purpose of the call is to solicit, select and implement four to six biodiversity data-related scientific projects that will make use of the added value services developed by the leading Research...

SBDI will contribute in a DDLS Research area conference september 8-9. This mini-symposium covers, among other topics: new technologies, Al, the use of DNA, Infrastructure support and collaboration opportunities. There will be several inspiring keynote talks.The practice of life science is continuously becoming more data-dependent. The amount and complexity of...

SLU Artdatabanken has published a new WFS (Web Feature Service) service that allows you to retrieve species observations directly to your own GIS application. You can also use the services to make direct calls in your web browser without going through a GIS application.WFS is an international standard for accessing...

PLAN-SUBSIM delivers first object detection models for benthic fauna and habitat builders.PLatform for ANalysis of SUBSea IMage aims at leverage existing methods, knowledge, and infrastructure in the field of subsea image analysis and implement these for applications in marine resource management. The initial use cases of PLAN-SUBSIM focus on images of...

 The GBIF Secretariat invites nominations for the 2022 Young Researchers Award.This annual programme aims to foster and recognize innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose master’s and doctoral studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. The 2022 programme will provide a pair of €5,000 prizes recognizing the work of...

The Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI) consortium is looking for a Director. The application deadline is April 25.The successful candidate will be offered a full-time position at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, combining duties as SBDI Director with related infrastructure work at the museum.– I think this is one...

Learn more about plans to highlight research, tools and techniques for using open data on biodiversity from the GBIF network.See recording of online GBIF community webinar. Andrew Rodrigues from the GBIF Secretariat presents the GBIF Data Use Club and presents a Live demo of the DataCamp platform.

One aim of SBDI is to make systematically collected biodiversity data available for researchers. A new long-term dataset on birds wintering in Sweden has now been published, adding to previous datasets of Swedish breeding birds. All data originate from systematic environmental monitoring schemes.Systematic counts of birds in Sweden have been...

Before human activities, each region had its own unique plants. Increasingly we are erasing that uniqueness.A paper in Nature Communications quantify and map this problem on a global scale. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27186-8)

Grants from the Swedish Research Council will enable SweDigArch to construct and run the Swedish National Infrastructure for Digital Archaeology, catalysing a new generation of data driven research on human-environment interactions. This will facilitate the production of aggregated and harmonised datasets previously unmatched in scope, fulfilling demands for cutting-edge integrative, interdisciplinary...

GBIF invites current GBIF participants (both voting and associate) to submit concept notes for project funding through the Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP), which enables collaboration between GBIF participants to address identified needs at regional and global levels.Concept notes for this cofunding opportunity for collaborative projects that target capacity enhancement...