
Once a year, GBIF sponsors a Science Symposium in association with its Governing Board meeting and science planning meetings. The GBIF Secretariat also organises symposia on biodiversity informatics at other meetings. Here, you can access abstracts, PowerPoint presentations and other materials related to these events.
GBIF at the 11th Conference of Parties to Convention on Biological Diversity
Hyderabad, India, 8-19 October 2012
GBIF-related side events at the 11th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP11) outline data mobilization projects, better information on invasive species, and a shared vision for biodiversity intelligence.
Side event: Engaging new communities in data publishing
Launch: Global Invasive Alien Species Information Partnership
Presentation at side event World Flora Online by 2020: Mobilisation of botanical data and information to help build the WFO (.pdf - 480 KB)
Side event: Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook
GBIF Annual Science Symposium
2012: GBIF at work - biodiversity data at the service of science and society
2011: GBIF at 10: Reaping benefits for science and society
2010: Trans-boundary Conservation Areas, Biodiversity Conservation and Peace Parks
2009: Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change
2008: Biodiversity, humans and global change in Africa
2007: Biodiversity on the Web: Information and Informatics
2006: The role of GBIF and other new technologies in conservation and monitoring biodiversity change
2005: Tropical Biodiversity: Science, Data, Conservation
2004: Biodiversity Data Users Serving Science and Society
2003: On the Rock of Real Data or the Sands of Speculation?
DIVERSITAS International Conference Integrating Biodiversity Science for Human Well-being 2005: Biodiversity informatics: Acquisition, analysis, archiving and applications
Abstracts and PowerPoint presentations from a symposium organised by GBIF.
- Canhos: The speciesLink Network
- Lane: Global Information Systems for Biodiversity
- Soberon: Completeness of Databases at Different Spatial Scales
- Thiele: Electronic Dissemination of Biodiversity Data
- Peterson: Ecological Niche Modeling based on Primary Species Occurrence Data
- Costello: Role of biodiversity informatics in data publication
Natural Science Collections Alliance 2005: Bioinformatics to Ecoinformatics: Digital Interconnectivity
PowerPoint presentations from a symposium organised by GBIF.
- Schildhauer: Biodiversity Assessments from Field Observations and Specimen Collections: How the Twain Shall Meet
- TDWG: Developing Interoperability within and among Communities of Biologists
- Beach: Engaging Collections Data in Environmental Computing Networks
- Lane: Update on GBIF and Introduction to the Session
IUBS 2004: The Role of Biodiversity Informatics in Science and Society
Symposium Presentations
- Edwards: The Role of Biodiversity Informatics in Science and Society: Introduction
- Lane: What Is Biodiversity Informatics?
- OBIS: The Ocean Biogeographic Information System: Mapping Marine Life Over the Internet
- Soberon: The National Biodiversity Information System of Mexico
- West and Whitbread: Australian Botanical Informatics Serving Science and Society
- Wake: Biodiversity Informatics Approaches to Taxon-Based Studies: The Amphibia as an Exemplar
- ETI: Biodiversity Informatics Approaches to Taxon-Based Studies: The Amphibia as an Exemplar


