GBIF Newsroom

It is with great sadness that the GBIF community has learned of the death of Dr Leonard Hirsch, one of its founders and most influential supporters.

Held in New Delhi in September, the GBIF Public Symposium featured speakers outlining recent developments in biodiversity informatics and highlighting innovative research uses of GBIF-mediated data. Watch on-demand videos of the live-stream coverage.

GBIF has welcomed two new organizations as Associate Participants: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, based in Leiden, The Netherlands, and Canadensys, based at the University of Montreal, Canada.

Miguel Bastos Aráujo, Portuguese winner of the prestigious GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Prize for 2013, plans to build an 'Ecotron' experimental facility to test model predictions of the impacts of climate change on species distributions.

The BISON system from USGS serves more than 100 million records, mostly from institutions publishing datasets through GBIF.

Availability of large volumes of data through GBIF helps refine predictions of climate impact, says Ebbe Nielsen Prize winner