Descriptions of the events
Below are short summaries of what will take place during 14th Governing Board of GBIF.
14-15 October - NODES Committee meeting
Time: 09:00-17:30
Venue: Hotel Moevenpick Amsterdam
The NODES Committee is a forum where Node Managers share their visions, expectations, experience and best practices.
It also serves as an advisory committee to the Governing Board, the Executive Committee, the Science Committee and the
Secretariat on issues relevant for the nodes.
This year the Nodes Committee meeting has been expanded to two days, offering a unique opportunity for Node managers to
discuss and plan on topics such as the use of the new GBIF data portal, the relationship between national and regional
networks and how to deal with sensitive data, among others.
15 October - NODES Training session
Time: 09:00-17:30
Venue: Hotel Moevenpick Amsterdam
A training session will also run in parallel during the second day of the meeting; this session will be
targeted at additional delegates to the Nodes Committee that are interested in the technical aspects of the new
data portal (e.g., using the GBIF web services), as well as in recent developments such as TAPIR.
15 October - Science, Budget, Rules and Executive Committee meetings
Time: 09:00-19:00
Venue: Hotel Moevenpick Amsterdam
Meeting of the GBIF Science (09:00-12:30), Budget (13:30-16:00), Rules (16:00-17:30) and Executive (17:30-19:00) Committees.
15 October - Reception
Time: 18:30-20:30
Venue: Muziekgebouw aan 'T IJ
Delegates attending the Science, Budget, Rules and Executive Committee meetings on 15 October and
delegates attending the Governing Board meeting the following day are invited to a reception hosted by the Netherlands Ministry
of Education, Culture and Science and the City Council of Amsterdam. The reception will take place at the Muziekgebouw
aan 't IJ, which is located next to the Hotel Moevenpick Amsterdam.
16-17 October - Governing Board meeting
Time: 09:00-17:00
Venue: Hotel Moevenpick Amsterdam
A two-day meeting of the GBIF Governing Board. Registration starts at 08:00.
16 October - Official hosted dinner
Time: 18:00-21:30
Venue: Restaurant Het Gemaal
Delegates of the Governing Board are kindly invited to dinner. The dinner is hosted by the Netherlands Ministry of Education,
Culture and Science and the University of Amsterdam. Participants will be picked up by boat from the Moevenpick at 18:00 and taken to
the Restaurant Het Gemaal, where dinner will start at 19:00.
17 October - Ebbe Nielsen Prize ceremony and reception
Time: 17:00-20:00
Venue: Hotel Moevenpick Amsterdam
The Ebbe Nielsen prize award ceremony, presentation, and the reception honouring this year’s recipient of the award.
The Prize honours the memory of Ebbe Nielsen and is awarded annually to a promising researcher who is combining
biosystematics and biological diversity informatics research that supports the objectives of GBIF in an exciting and
novel way.
18 October - Science Symposium
Time: 09:00-16:00
Venue: Hotel Moevenpick Amsterdam
The fifth annual GBIF Science Symposium. See http://www.gbif.org/Stories/STORY1189523927.
18 October - Reception for Jim Edwards
Time: 16:00-18:00
Venue: Hotel Moevenpick Amsterdam
Reception for Jim Edwards, former GBIF Executive Secretary.
19 October - Meeting of the Science Committee
Time: 08:00-11:00
Venue: Hotel Moevenpick Amsterdam
Meeting of the newly formed Science Committee.
19 October - Meeting of the Executive Committee
Time: 11:00-15:00
Venue: Hotel Moevenpick Amsterdam
Meeting of the Executive Committee
19 October - Excursions
Excursions for Governing Board meeting participants:
Naturalis (Natural History Museum of Leiden) ( http://www.naturalis.nl)
A guided tour in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Leiden plus time to see some of Leiden
Oostvaardersplassen (national park in Flevoland) (
http://www.staatsbosbeheer.nl/ontdek/bijzonderenatuurgebieden/details.asp?GEB_ID=51)
Oostvaardersplassen is a nature reserve with wet and dry areas (former sea, land since 1965, park since 1985). There will be a slide show
and a guided tour.
Both tours will depart from the Hotel Moevenpick Amsterdam at 9:30 and return around 15:30. Each group has a maximum of
30 people.
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Click here to get a list of other biodiversity events taking place in the Netherlands during the two
weeks surrounding GB14.
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