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A day and a half scientific symposium that is open to the public and press will be held in Oaxaca at the Camino Real Hotel on 27-28 April 2004. The symposium features the work of users of data provided by GBIF. A highlight of the Symposium will be the presentation of the third Ebbe Nielsen Prize for excellence in innovative application of biodiversity informatics in biosystematics. To see the program, abstracts and speaker biographies, see Symposium Program.
The symposium is titled "Biodiversity Data Users Serving Science and Society." This Second Annual GBIF Science Symposium is about the different ways that biodiversity data in digital form can be put to use in basic and applied research, in answering environmental questions, and in making natural resource management decisions.
The keynote address of the Symposium will describe GBIF from a global, scientific and political perspective by a visionary scientist-politician, Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy, President of The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. Various aspects of the use of biodiversity data will be presented by seven distinguished scientists, including Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra, President of Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Ecologia and Dr. Miquel Nakamura of Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas. Other speakers come from Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Denmark, Sweden and the USA. The Symposium will be opened by Dr. José Antonio de la Peña, President of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias.
The symposium is open to the press and the public.
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