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IMAR published more than 300 thousand species occurrences leading the GBIF Portuguese data portal to exceed 6 million records

Published on February 12, 2019
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The IMAR Institute, from the University of Coimbra, is specialized in Marine and Environmental Sciences, focused on coastal zones and hydrographic basins. They have been registered as publishers since 2017 and are endorsed by OBIS, a global, open access information center on marine biodiversity for science, conservation and sustainable development.

MOBILISE: Candidaturas abertas para curso de formação: Desafios de Digitalização e Gestão de Dados em Pequenas Coleções

Published on January 25, 2019

Está aberta para candidaturas o primeiro curso de formação do Cost action MOBILIZE, organizada sob o WG6 “EDUCAÇÃO E TREINAMENTO, DISSEMINAÇÃO E DIVULGAÇÃO”. O curso de formação será focado na digitalização e na gestão de coleções biológicas e geológicas e no desenvolvimento de estratégias e planos de digitalização. Os tópicos específicos que serão abordados durante a formação através de exercícios práticos são, entre outros, a qualidade dos dados, a limpeza dos dados e a origem dos dados.

Report publication: Questionnaire on the Needs in the Use of Agrobiodiversity Information

Published on January 24, 2019

The Portuguese Node of GBIF, together with the Spanish Node and the Food, Farming and Forestry (F3) College of the University of Lisbon, launched in April 2017 the questionnaire on the use of information on agrobiodiversity, within the framework of the Agrotraining project. The aim was to identify the needs on the use of biodiversity  information in the field of Agrobiodiversity, by different actors.

Chamada para candidaturas a bolsas para Missões Científicas de Curta Duração (STSM – Short Term Scientific Missions)

Published on November 21, 2018

A ação COST MOBILISE:  Mobilising Data, Policies and Experts in Scientific Collections tem como objetivo a constituição de uma rede cooperativa e inclusiva, com o envolvimento ativo dos vários stakeholders europeus, para apoiar a investigação em informática da geo e biodiversidade. A ação MOBILISE visa facilitar a transferência de conhecimento e tecnologia entre stakeholders, fazendo a ponte entre a investigação em biodiversidade e geociências e as melhores práticas da tecnologia de informação.

Registration for the GBIF.ES training workshop: Georeferencing of natural history collections, is now open

Published on September 26, 2018

Registration for the GBIF.ES training workshop: "Georeferencing of natural history collections", is now open. The workshop will be held from the 13th to 15th of November (2018), at the Royal Botanic Garden in Madrid. The course will cover the use of Geographic Information Systems - GIS and other useful tools, such as Geolocate.

Winner of the GBIF Young Researchers Award of 2018 is Portuguese and investigates climate change impacts on macroalgae distribution, along the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula

Published on September 24, 2018
Raquel Gaião Silva, 2018 GBIF Young Researchers Award

Raquel Gaião Silva is a graduate student in Biodiversity and Marine Conservation at the University of Algarve, and one of the two winners of the GBIF Young Investigators Award (2018). She is the first Portuguese to win this prize. The student has just completed her thesis for EMBC+ and her research uses species records from the GBIF.org network and other sources, to examine issues related to rising ocean temperatures and the distribution of macroalgae along the Atlantic Ocean coast,  in Spain and Portugal.