Once a year, GBIF sponsors a Science Symposium in association with its Governing Board meeting and science planning meetings. The GBIF Secretariat also organises symposia on biodiversity informatics at other meetings. On this page, you can access abstracts, PowerPoint presentations and other materials related to these events.

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GBIF Science Symposium 2008:
Biodiversity, humans and global change in Africa

Programme (includes Abstracts and Speaker Biographies) (PDF 525 KB)

PowerPoint presentations:

• Martínez-Meyer: Keynote: Biodiversity informatics tools and predictive distribution modeling for research on climate change: Case studies in biodiversity-rich countries (PDF 4.40 MB)
• Barnard: Building an early warning system for biodiversity under climate change in southern Africa - modeling and policy translation lessons from plant and bird data
• Witt: A warmer planet - Implications for invasive species management
• Kerr: Predicting conservation needs and infectious disease distributions in an era of global change: Critical roles for GBIF and remote sensing (PDF 4.18 MB)
• Jarvis: Use of GBIF data for conserving and adapting agricultural biodiversity in the face of climate change (PDF 7,61 MB)
• Yanda: Potential use of GBIF-like data for assessing impact of climate on biodiversity in Africa: Need for capacity building

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GBIF Science Symposium 2007:
Biodiversity on the Web: Information and Informatics

Programme (includes Abstracts and Speaker Biographies) (PDF 810 KB)
PowerPoint presentations

• Hobern: GBIF Information Architecture (PDF 307 KB)
• Vincx, Merckx & Deprez: Role of GBIF Data in Biodiversity Studies (PDF 602 KB)
• Guralnick & Hill: GBIF's Role in Biodiversity Prediction (PDF 902 KB)
• Kerr & Kharouba: GBIF & GEOSS (PDF 295 KB)
• Schindel: Linking GBIF data to gene sequences (PDF 503 KB)
• Edwards: Future of biodiversity informatics (PDF 96 KB)

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GBIF Science Symposium 2006:
The role of GBIF and other new technologies in conservation and monitoring biodiversity change

Abstracts
Speaker biographies
PowerPoint presentations

• Mduma: Ecological baselines and monitoring ecological change
• Midgley: Projecting and monitoring climate change impacts on terrestrial biodiversity: Roles for GBIF
• Obura: Applying new technologies to the monitoring of coral reefs
• Archer: Biodiversity conservation and sustainable rural livelihoods in a marginal environment: A case study
• Simiyu: Implementing the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation in Africa: The role of GBIF
• Sharman: Biodiversity data acquisition and assessment after the MEA: How GBIF and GEOSS will benefit Africa
• Maneveldt and Knight: Biodiversity conservation: Its current status in South Africa
• February: The role of GBIF in developing management policies in African National Parks

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DIVERSITAS International Conference Integrating Biodiversity Science for Human Well-being 2005:

Biodiversity informatics: Acquisition, analysis, archiving and applications

Abstracts and PowerPoint presentations from a symposium organised by GBIF.

• Canhos: The speciesLink Network
• Lane: Global Information Systems for Biodiversity
• Soberon: Completeness of Databases at Different Spatial Scales
• Thiele: Electronic Dissemination of Biodiversity Data
• Peterson: Ecological Niche Modeling based on Primary Species Occurrence Data
• Costello: Role of biodiversity informatics in data publication

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Natural Science Collections Alliance 2005:

Bioinformatics to Ecoinformatics: Digital Interconnectivity

PowerPoint presentations from a symposium organised by GBIF.

• Schildhauer: Biodiversity Assessments from Field Observations and Specimen Collections: How the Twain Shall Meet
• TDWG: Developing Interoperability within and among Communities of Biologists
• Beach: Engaging Collections Data in Environmental Computing Networks
• Lane: Update on GBIF and Introduction to the Session

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GBIF Science Symposium 2005:

Tropical Biodiversity: Science, Data, Conservation

• Description of Symposium
• Abstracts
• Gopal
• Olivieri
• Raven
• PowerPoint Shows of Symposium Presentations
• Gopal: Conserving Inland Aquatic Biodiversity in the Tropics: The Needs for Databases and Information Network
• Olivieri: On-line access to conservation data: challenges and opportunities
• Raven: What Should We Try to Learn About Tropical Biodiversity, and How Can We Use the Knowledge for Conservation?
• Proceedings of the Symposium

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GBIF Science Symposium 2004:
Biodiversity Data Users Serving Science and Society

• Program
• Symposium Presentations
• Howarth: Forests, Farms and Weeds: Applying Biodiversity Information to Natural Resources and Protected Area Management Issues
• Canhos: The Brazilian Biota/Fapesp Virtual Institute of Biodiversity
• Nakamura: Presence-only Data in the Determination of Ecological Niches
• Lange: The Importance of Biodiversity Data to Discovery and Technical Applications
• Peterson: Using Biodiversity Data for Fine-Scale Analysis of Risk of Disease Transmission

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IUBS 2004: The Role of Biodiversity Informatics in Science and Society

Symposium Presentations

• Edwards: The Role of Biodiversity Informatics in Science and Society: Introduction
• Lane: What Is Biodiversity Informatics?
• OBIS: The Ocean Biogeographic Information System: Mapping Marine Life Over the Internet
• Soberon: The National Biodiversity Information System of Mexico
• West and Whitbread: Australian Botanical Informatics Serving Science and Society
• Wake: Biodiversity Informatics Approaches to Taxon-Based Studies: The Amphibia as an Exemplar
• ETI: Biodiversity Informatics Approaches to Taxon-Based Studies: The Amphibia as an Exemplar

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GBIF Science Symposium 2003:
On the Rock of Real Data or the Sands of Speculation?

• Program
• Presentation by Craig Moritz
• Written form of Presentation by Craig Moritz