NBN Conference 2016

Presentations Thursday 17th November

• Sheena Harvey, BBC Wildlife – Reaching new recruits
• Professor Helen Roy, Biological Records Centre & Centre for Ecology & Hydrology – Challenges and opportunities for recording well-loved species
• Ro Scott, Highland Biological Recording Group – Filling the Void – generating records from a sparsely-populated area
• Harriet Carty, Caring for God’s Acre – The Beautiful Burial Ground
• Megan Shersby, A Focus on Nature – Young people, nature and biological recording
• Wil J Heeney, National Longhorn Beetle Recording Scheme – The National Longhorn Beetle Recording Scheme, going forward
• Krisztina Fekete, Natural History Museum – ID Trainer for the Future – Mind The Gap! – Challenging taxa in focus

Workshops were held on Thursday afternoon.  Download the summary reports from the workshops.

Presentations Friday 18th November

Morning

• Professor Andy Purvis, Natural History Museum, London – Global biodiversity indicators from heterogeneous re-purposed data-the PREDICTS project
• Craig Macadam, Buglife / Riverfly Recording Schemes – Verification – the key to quality
• Deb Muscat, Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre – Carrying on their good work
• Joseph Beale, Natural History Museum – ID Trainer for the Future – Why does identifying species correctly matter?
• Andrew Whitehouse, Buglife – Putting Bugs on the Map
• Ashleigh Whiffin, National Museums Scotland – Establishing a new beetle recording scheme-Silphidae UK
• Martin Harvey, Biological Records Centre / Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme – Sitting in judgement? Verification from a local and national perspective
• Esther Hughes, Marine Biological Association – Squaring the data-flow circle: One vision from disparate data
• Andrew Wood, NBN Treasurer – Building the base
• Rachel Stroud, NBN Secretariat – A time to reflect (you can also download Rachel’s script for her presentation)

Afternoon

• Professor Charles Godfray CBE FRS, Oxford University – Systematics, biodiversity and ecology in the internet era
• Steve Wilkinson, Joint Nature Conservation Committee – History of the NBN Gateway
• Jo Judge, NBN CEO – NBN from the Gateway to the NBN Atlas
• Simon Gibson-Poole, Scotland’s Rural College – Using a drone to identify a giant herb
• Zac Baynham-Herd, University of Edinburgh – Biodiversity on the blockchain?
• Dr Jon Chamberlain, University of Essex – Using social media to study wildlife
• Gill Dowse, Scottish Wildlife Trust – Navigating the NBN Atlas Scotland

You can also download the printed NBN Conference brochure (N.B. This is 18MB)

Photographs from the Conference

Photographs can be downloaded from the Dropbox links below.

Thursday presentations, coffee breaks and display stands

Thursday workshops, feedback and panel discussion

Friday presentations, coffee breaks and display stands