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Citizen science and crowdsourcing enable the public to make meaningful contributions to scientific and engineering research and monitoring. These approaches also produce accurate data to…

Introducing the Citizen Science Global Partnership Abstract Professional science alone cannot provide information at the scales and resolutions necessary to understand environmental change. The dominant…

NERC is inviting the environmental science community to submit new ideas for highlight topics. NERC would welcome ideas from both researchers and those who use…

View Network News January 2018. In this issue: SBIF Review: workshop on Funding Options NBN Sensitive Species Policy NBN Atlas helps in the discovery of…

The fourth (and final) in our series of workshops aimed at identifying and evaluating different scenarios for the re-design of the biological recording infrastructure in…

Welcome the official start of phase 4, welcome planning for nature live and frosty mornings. Welcome December. This month we have well and truly been…

The NBN Atlas has a system whereby records of species that are deemed sensitive are made available at a reduced resolution, reducing the risk of…

This document describes the National Biodiversity Network’s (NBN) Sensitive Species Policy. The policy provides a framework for a standardised, agreed and defensible, method of handling sensitive species data on…

Last November, Sophia Ratcliffe, Technical & Data Partner Support Officer at the NBN received an email from Dr. Manuel Caballer Gutierrez of the Muséum National…

Back in September last year we highlighted the hedgehog housing census which was being run by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species.  This has now…

Small grants for biodiversity and geodiversity voluntary recording work in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham and the Tees Valley ERIC North East has around £3,000…

Applications are now being accepted for small bursaries designed to help develop skills that will be used to support wildlife recording in Scotland. In order…

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) is offering two funded PhD studentships relating to invasive species. Studentship one The first studentship is on evolutionary adaptation…

Do you know someone working within the environmental sciences sector who deserves to be recognised for their outstanding contribution, their achievements in public life, and/or…

View Network News December 2017. In this issue: Honorary Membership awards 2017 UK Award winners 2017 NBN Conference NBN Board – Call for Trustees SBIF Review:…

Are you a Recorder 6 user? Would you benefit from improved support and new updates? Do you want to influence the future of Recorder and…

As part of the NBN Conference in Cardiff we were delighted to bestow Honorary Membership upon Dr Mark Hill and Professor Helen Roy. Professor Helen…

The Stockholm Environment Institute would like to share a discussion brief that Sarah West and Rachel Pateman have written about how citizen science could be…

A UTC (University Technical College) is a new type of school for 14-19 year olds who have decided that their future careers are in STEM…

November proved to be an eventful month as the ID Trainers went itinerant. The first couple of weeks of the month were the last of…