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Common pincushion (Dicranoweisia cirrata) by John D Reynolds via iNaturalist. Photo licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Occurrence records

Datasets

Publishing institutions

Peer-reviewed papers using data

Dr Joe Miller named new GBIF Executive Secretary

4 February 2019

CoordinateCleaner: fast and standardized cleaning of species occurrence data

19 February 2019

2019 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme call opens for proposals

Deadline: 24 Feb 2019

Call for nominations to the 2019 GBIF Young Researchers Award

GBIF Secretariat deadline: 15 May 2019

2019 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks open-data innovations for biodiversity

Deadline: 1 August 2019

Expanding local engagement and biodiversity data use through localized content

Japanese node on challenges and solutions to dealing with language barriers

Mobilization of biodiversity data from the private sector

A Norwegian data flow established to ensure mobilization of biodiversity data to GBIF from the private sector

Biodiversity infrastructures to crosslink metagenomics and species occurrence data

18 December 2018