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Measuring the mobilisation, use and impact of national biodiversity data by Mélianie Raymond and Kyle Copas, GBIF Secretariat During GBIF’s 2014 governing board meeting, network…

1st November 1968 – 6th November 2015 The National Biodiversity Network is devastated to announce the untimely death of its CEO, John Sawyer, who died…

Kate Barlow – 5th December 1970 – 23rd November 2015 Taken from a tribute by Kate E. Jones Dr Kate Barlow, passionate wildlife conservationist and explorer…

The NBN Strategy 2015 – 2020 sets out the UK’s commitment to sharing biological data freely and openly for use to inform education and research.…

What does this mean for me? The following article answers some of the questions currently being asked about the NBN Atlas Scotland. What is the NBN Atlas Scotland?…

The World is your Oyster, (or Fern or Bumblebee …) Written by Siobhan Leachman   I first became involved in crowdsourcing when my sister suggested…

Momentum and support for the Consultants Portal is continuing as we move into winter. Almost 20,000 biological records have been submitted so far and we…

Here in the UK we have an enviable number of volunteer naturalists, whose dedicated contributions of time and expertise help us to understand the state…

The winners of the first ever UK Awards for Biological Recording and Information Sharing were announced at the Merchant Taylor’s Hall in York during an evening…

The National Biodiversity Network is devastated to announce the untimely death of its CEO, John Sawyer, who died of a heart attack on Friday 6th…

Image courtesy of Paula Lightfoot The National Forum for Biological Recording celebrates its 30th anniversary next year and is organising two events to bring recorders…

In September we introduced Ben Brown, a BBSRC-funded PhD student joining the NBN for a three-month internship. Having started last week, the project is now…

Written by Rachel Stroud, NBN Secretariat E: rachelstroud.nbn@gmail.com Summary The following article outlines the proposal to resume data sharing between the NBN and the Global…

As you are no doubt aware, the National Biodiversity Network, in conjunction with the National Forum for Biological Recording and the Biological Records Centre, has established a new…

Written by: Rachel Stroud and John Sawyer, NBN Secretariat E: r.stroud@nbn.org.uk   On the 25th September, 58 members of the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) met to…

The Consultants Portal has been designed as a place for environmental consultants and other biological recording professionals to share their biological records. It functions as…

Written by John Sawyer and Rachel Stroud, NBN Secretariat E: j.sawyer@nbn.org.uk The efficient flow of data from a recorder to a data user is of paramount…

Over the last few months the NBN Secretariat has been expanding in order for us to increase the pace of delivery of our programme of…

View NBN eNews October 2015   In this issue: Draft NBN Strategy for data sharing with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Early bird deadline and more…

NBN Atlas Scotland now live The beta version of the NBN Atlas Scotland, which will also serve as a pilot for a UK-wide roll out of new data…