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OPEN CALL: Nominations for 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award

Feb 28, 2023 | News

The call is now open for the GBIF 2023 Graduate Researchers Award (previously the Young Researchers Award). The award fosters innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students in masters and doctorate programmes at universities, whose...

FBIP data mobilization: How a 100yr old baboon spider specimen got better with age…

Feb 23, 2022 | News

Somewhere in the deep recesses of the Iziko Museum in Cape Town, there is a small glass jar containing a dark, lifeless, spherical creature with eight protruding legs. The jar is two-thirds filled with the preserving chemical – ethanol – and is plugged with a wad of...

GBIF announces call for sub-Saharan Africa projects

Jun 3, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized

Cape Town – The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has announced a call for projects from sub-Saharan Africa. The funding covers the cost of collecting existing data and capturing this in a suitable database and submitting to GBIF. GBIF has...

FBIP-SAEON 2020 workshop gives students crucial data skills

Feb 24, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized

Cape Town – The South African Earth Observation Network (SAEON) in partnership with the FBIP last week successfully hosted a two-day workshop with a focus on “Data Manipulation and Visualisation in R for Ecologists” at St. Ives Lodge and Venue in Lion Rivers in...

Soil microbiome to be explored in FBIP ‘frontier’ study

Jan 19, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized

Cape Town – A team of researchers are set to explore the uncharted territories of life in the agricultural soil microbiome. The team received funding from the Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) to conduct the Large Scale Project. In an...

OPEN CALL: Nominations for 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award

FBIP data mobilization: How a 100yr old baboon spider specimen got better with age…

GBIF announces call for sub-Saharan Africa projects

FBIP-SAEON 2020 workshop gives students crucial data skills

Soil microbiome to be explored in FBIP ‘frontier’ study

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