OPEN CALL: Nominations for 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award

OPEN CALL: Nominations for 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award

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...
Dr Lita Pauw: A drive to do everything perfectly and on time

Dr Lita Pauw: A drive to do everything perfectly and on time

At the end of November 2021, the FBIP said farewell to its programme coordinator, Dr Lita Pauw. Lita served the FBIP for seven years from 2015 and said she is currently enjoying a self-declared ‘sabbatical’. Former FBIP programme manager, Prof Michelle Hamer, who...
SANBI-GBIF Workshop: Data Management & Cleaning

SANBI-GBIF Workshop: Data Management & Cleaning

Supporting Science, Policy, and Sustainable Development DATE: 22nd – 24th February 2022Venue: Colophon Room, CBC Building, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town Deadline for submissions: 10th December 2021 Background SANBI is the home of the South African Node of the Global...