This year's NBN Conference is taking place on Friday 15th November at the Royal Society. The theme is: “Future challenges for the NBN”
The full programme is shown below and can also be downloaded here.
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Tickets cost £50.
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13th National Biodiversity Network Conference: Friday 15th November 2013
Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall, The Royal Society,
6 – 9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG
Programme 10.00 Registration and coffee.
Morning session:
Chairman: Dr Jim Munford
10.15 Welcome and introduction by NBN Trust Chairman, Professor Michael Hassell
10.20 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Barry Gardiner MP, Labour's Shadow Environment Minister
10.50 Practical Challenges in the Use of Biodiversity Data – an Ecologist’s Perspective Lisa Kerslake, Swift Ecology
11.20 From records to research: opportunities and constraints for ecological research using distribution data Richard Fox, Butterfly Conservation
11.50 Translating volunteer recording into marine conservation action Alan Law, Natural England
12.20 Atlas recording is just the start Steve Cham, Dragonfly Recording Network
12.50 Lunch, posters, displays and demonstrations: NBN Gateway Technical Team and Communications, Hoverfly Recording Scheme, Nature After Minerals Team, Field Studies Council, iSpot and Trezilla.
Afternoon session:
Chairman: Professor Michael Hassell
14.15 Award of NBN Honorary Membership
14.20 The Sir John Burnett Memorial Lecture, 2013 Big data, NBN and effective conservation – Professor Bill Sutherland
14.50 Securing nature’s recovery: the known’s, unknowns and need to knows Paul Wilkinson, The Wildlife Trusts
15.20 2020 vision – emerging needs and priorities Ed Mackey, Scottish Natural Heritage
15.50 Field notes of a training provider: joining the dots for biological recording training Sue Townsend & Richard Burkmar, Field Studies Council
16.20 Chairman’s summing up.
16.30 Tea and depart.