New NBN Communications Officer
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/new-nbn-communications-officer/
We are delighted to welcome Purba Choudhury into the NBN fold as Communications Officer.
Author: Andy Watson
New NBN Communications Officer
Consultants Portal Update
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/consultants-portal-update/
Momentum is really starting to pick up with the Consultants Portal with more records and more users being added every week.
Draft NBN Strategy for data sharing with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/draft-nbn-strategy-for-data-sharing-with-the-globa/
The following article outlines the proposal to resume data sharing between the NBN and GBIF.org
Awards nominations success
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/awards-nominations-success/
The nominations for the UK Awards for biological recording and information sharing closed on 30th September, so what are the next steps?
NBN Crowdsourcing Data Capture Summit
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/nbn-crowdsourcing-data-capture-summit-2/
We were delighted to welcome 58 members of the NBN to this summit in September. Here we bring you an interim report on the outputs from the day.
Snowdonia Earthworm Identification Weekend
Events: https://nbn.org.uk/event/gwynedd-earthworm-identification-weekend/
Delivered in partnership with the FSC Tomorrow's Biodiversity Project. This two day earthworm sampling and identification course is suitable for those with no earthworm experience through to fully trained earthworm recorders.
Devon Earthworm Identification Weekend
Events: https://nbn.org.uk/event/devon-earthworm-identification-weekend/
Delivered in partnership with the FSC Tomorrow's Biodiversity Project. This two day earthworm sampling and identification course is suitable for those with no earthworm experience through to fully trained earthworm recorders.
NBN Atlas Scotland now live
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/atlas-of-living-scotland-update-1/
The beta version of The Atlas of Living Scotland, which will also serve as a pilot for a UK-wide roll out of new data infrastructure for biodiversity, is now live!
Data Licensing on the NBN Gateway
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/data-licensing-on-the-nbn-gateway/
The NBN Gateway has been changed to allow NBN Data Partners to assign a data license to their own datasets and four data licenses are now available.
NBN recorder motivation internship
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/nbn-recorder-motivation-internship/
The NBN Secretariat will be joined by a PhD student from Nottingham University later this year to further our understanding of recorder motivations.