Find below the courses that GBIF.Es has planned for 2020. Please, note that in some cases the dates shown might be tentative. If you wish to obtain further information about any of the activities listed here, please visit our section: activities organized by GBIF Spain. All comments from users are welcome at info@gbif.es.
The “more information” links, that point to the specific page of each workshop with detailed information, will be working when the workshops’ dates get closer and their contents are confirmed.
21 JanuaryThis workshop is aimed to explain how to use and access data through the GBIF.ES National Data Portal (datos.gbif.es) by practising with its functionalities. We will also explore the International Biodiversity Data Portal of GBIF (www.gbif.org).
Free and addressed to technician staff from the Diputación de Barcelona - 5 Teaching hours
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5 & 6 MarchThis theoretical-practical workshop is aimed to explain how the international GBIF biodiversity data portal (www.gbif.org) can be used by practising with its functionalities. There will be also a module to present different tools useful to analyse the biodiversity data available through the portal.
Free and addressed to the GBIF Zimbabwe network - 15 Teaching hours
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30 March - 3 AprilThis workshop is aimed to M.Sc. and PhD students and will allow them gain practical skills and familiarize themselves with international research data infrastructures such as Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), international data standards (Darwin Core), software on data quality, data publishing with the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT), and preparation of data papers.
Free and addressed to students from Armenia and Georgia - 30 Teaching hours
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20 - 24 AprilThis workshop is part of the CESP project "Data Use for Decision Making Workshop: an Iberoamerican community call", and will introduce the importance of biodiversity data within the decision-making process. Participants will learn how to clean data and run key analyses, such as determining the distribution of a species and assessing the conservation status of species. They will then learn how to communicate their results to key stakeholders in the decision-making process.
Free and addressed to Public Administration staff - 30 Teaching hours
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5 & 6 MayThe workshop aims to learn participants to be able to prepare and publish biodiversity data through the GBIF network. Topics such as data quality, data cleaning and validation, data standardization and data publication through the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) will be addressed. This training event is one of the activites scheduled in the OpenPSD project aimed to promote open data access from private sector.
Free (focusing in the private sector) - 9 Teaching hours
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Workshop to be confirmedIn this theoretical-practical workshop, students will learn to identify the best areas for habitat and species conservation by using tools such as Marxant, Prioritzr y Zonation.
Free - ? Teaching hours
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Workshop to be confirmedIn this theoretical-practical workshop students will learn how to use the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to be able to manage, transform and present biodiversity data together with geographical features. During this course, participants will use QGIS (open-access GIS software) as a tool to explore biodiversity records downloaded from GBIF.
Free - ? Teaching hours
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8 - 11 SeptemberIn this practical workshop, we will study the required concepts and techniques to make species distribution models (SDM) using the statistical software R. Some of the addressed topics will be basic concepts on ecological niche and the modelization process, statistical functions such as GLM, GAM, Regression Trees or Random Forests and concluding with the presentation of a teamwork made during the workshop. This workshop will be given by Blas M. Benito (University of Alicante).
Free - 26 Teaching hours
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6 - 21 OctoberThis workshop is aimed to give participants the basics to know how to use the R software to manage, visualize and analyze ecological and biodiversity data. It will deepen in those competencies allowing to be an efficient user of the program such as the directory management, the object manipulation, the graphic design (ggplot), etc.
Free - 30 Teaching hours
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17 - 30 NovemberThis workshop is aimed to provide the theoretical base and introduce different tools useful for controlling data quality, from the data collection to the publication process, through their systematization, identification, taxonomy, documentation, storage, and conservation of the information. Biodiversity data are the basis of many research projects and have a very important role in decision making regarding the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The workshop is addressed to biologists, curators of natural history collections, scientists and anyone who is actively involved in the biodiversity data management.
Free - 30 Teaching hours
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