ARCOS Hosting 1st African Mountains Regional Forum
ARCOS and the Africa Mountain Partnership Champions Committee in partnership with the East African Community (EAC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Austrian Development Agency...
View ArticleNew Dragonfly Book and African Training Opportunity
Few animal groups can represent the greatest [insects] and most threatened [freshwater] biodiversity on earth as well as dragonflies and damselflies, perhaps the best-known and most colorful of all...
View ArticleTDWG Call for Symposia and Workshops for 2015 Conference
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) will hold its 2015 annual conference 28 September to 3 October 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. This is TDWG’s first conference in Africa! The theme of the conference...
View ArticleWhy More Biologists Need to Teach in Africa
An blog post by David C. Blackburn of the California Academy of Science, “Why More Biologists Need to Teach in Africa” is featured in American Scientist. He shares reflections on his trip to Cameroon...
View ArticleAfrica Rising: Mobilizing Biodiversity Data for Sustainable Development...
South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is hosting a conference at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa from May 19-22, 2015. The conference, entitled Africa...
View ArticleGBIF Surveys Data Holders and Data Users in Africa
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF, has launched surveys for data holders and data users in Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific region countries to improve the application of biodiversity...
View ArticleBiodiversity Heritage Library Africa Turns a Page in Nairobi
Prefacing the recent Taxonomic Data Working Group (TDWG) conference in Nairobi, the Biodiversity Heritage Library of Africa gathered fifteen representatives from eleven institutions throughout South...
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Biodiversity Informatics Training on Demand and no Fee-per-View
Over the past four years, the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute (JRS grant page), lead by Dr. Town Peterson and Co-Director Dr. Kate Ingenloff, has had the ambitious goal to build a...
View ArticleJRS Supports Prize Competition to Reward African Biodiversity Data Sharing
SEATTLE, Washington – May 16, 2017 — The JRS Biodiversity Foundation today announced a new $250,000 grant to the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) to motivate the mobilization of...
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JRS Conference Support Invests in Network Formation and Community-building
JRS is proud to share the news of our four new grants totaling $57,500 to support international conferences relating to biodiversity informatics. Conference support is an important element of JRS’...
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