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Second IPBES Pan-European stakeholder meeting (PESC-2)
September 22, 2014- September 23, 2014The second Pan-European Stakeholder Consultation Meeting (PESC-2) for IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) is organised by the Swiss Biodiversity Forum with the support of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN),...
21st GBIF Governing Board (GB21) Meeting
September 16, 2014- September 19, 2014GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility The Governing Board meeting, including the Science Symposium, will take place at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on 16-19 September 2014. The official Governing Board meeting is only...
DEST-Taxonomy Training on Geometric Morphometrics and Phylogeny
September 8, 2014- September 12, 2014This course provides an overview of the interface between geometric morphometrics and phylogenetics. It aims to give an overview of the different approaches and methods that link the two fields and to enable participants to...
DEST – Taxonomy Training on Philosophy of Biological Systematics
September 8, 2014- September 12, 2014Approaching the subject from the perspective of the philosophical foundations of scientific inquiry, this course offers critical examinations of the principles required to judge the scientific merits of systematic/taxonomic procedures by way of the following...
Taxonomy of Beetles
September 8, 2014- September 12, 2014This Course is organized by Dr. Luca Bartolozzi, Head of Zoology Department “La Specola” of the Natural History Museum University of Florence, in the framework of the project COLLMAP. The ANMS – National Association of...
RSA Early Career Grant Available
September 8, 2014RSA Early Career Grant Scheme Submission deadline: 8th September 2014, 10am GMT The RSA Early Career Grant Scheme is open to single applicants in their early career (those within five years after finishing their PhD)....
Building up Open Access, Open Education and Open Data for Open Science
September 2, 2014- September 3, 2014This one day workshop “Building up Open Access, Open Education and Open Data for Open Science” is aimed to bring together participants from various disciplines to enable an in-depth dialogue focused on Open Access ,...
DEST – Taxonomy Training on Introduction to R
September 1, 2014- September 5, 2014R is an open-source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is widely used by statisticians all over the world, and researchers from many different fields use R for data analysis....
DataCite 5th Annual Conference
August 25, 2014- August 26, 2014DataCite organizes its 5th Annual Conference & Special Anniversary Celebration. This year’s theme, Giving Value to Data: Advocacy, Guidance, Services will highlight recent developments in the discovery, access and reuse of research data. The conference...
Special Exhibition “Flies” at Berlin Natural History Museum
August 16, 2014FLIES 16 August 2014 – 15 January 2015, Berlin Natural History Museum You think you know these little beasts that intrude so impertinently everywhere. How could anyone be interested in these hateful creatures unless it...
International Marine Conservation Congress
August 14, 2014- August 18, 2014To conserve the world’s oceans we must go beyond science, and use it to inform policy and management, and ultimately to catalyze change. The Society for Conservation Biology’s International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC) brings together...
DEST – Taxonomy Training on Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics
August 4, 2014- August 8, 2014This course is entitled to teach the main concepts of shape analysis based on landmark coordinates and its multivariate procedures, and how they can be put into practice across any biological discipline in which the...