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The latest edition of the NFBR newsletter is now available. It includes updates on the work being carried out by Records Centres and Recording Schemes…

A new data visualisation tool puts data collected by OPAL’s citizen scientists into your hands. What do lichens say about the air quality on your…

A number of grants and funding options are now available as detailed below. Grants for British Science Week are now open! Dates of British Science…

The Scotland’s Environment web team has been working hard over the past year to find out what their users would like from their environmental information…

Whether you are starting your Christmas shopping or booking train tickets to attend a meeting you can show your support for the NBN. Did you…

The NBN Secretariat office will be moving to new premises week commencing 27th November 2017.  We are not going far and will still be in…

The SBIF Review:  workshop on service provision options, 17th & 18th October 2017                   The second in…

Data publishers can improve the quality of their datasets by identifying and addressing potential issues prior to publication with the help of the new GBIF data…

  This month the other trainees and I have dispersed to different corners of the Museum for our curation placements. We are each pursuing our…

Support from 275 volunteers – in one of the largest-ever volunteer-based surveys in Scotland – is giving a clearer picture of bat populations in Southern…

We are delighted to offer one student the chance to present a 5-minute “Student Speed Talk” on a topic related to biodiversity data, at our…

View Network News October 2017. In this issue: NBN Conference – latest programme available Shortlist for UK Awards for Biological Recording and Information Sharing The…

The Earthworm Society of Britain (ESB) is proud to announce that its new Earthworm Recorder’s Handbook has been published on its website. The document has…

Workshop on data flow options, 18th & 19th September 2017 The first in a series of four workshops that will identify and evaluate different scenarios…

We are delighted to announce the nominees who have been shortlisted in each of the different categories of the 2017 UK Awards for Biological Recording…

The first ever national Hedgehog Housing Census was launched on 15 August 2017 by Hedgehog Street, a nationwide campaign set up by wildlife charities the…

View Network News September 2017. In this issue: NBN Conference – early bird deadline is 15th September Update from NBN Atlas makes UK the 2nd-largest…

New Approaches to Citizen Science Advances in technology have revolutionised “citizen science”, and far more people are involved in different ways than ever before. Now,…

Having started to analyse the use of the NBN Atlas through Google Analytics, we wanted to share the statistics from launch on 1st April, to…

So there we have it, the second chapter of our traineeship has come to a close, and what an amazing month August has been. If…