Thank you to everyone who joined us on 24 November for our online Conference. We hope you enjoyed the event and the format and found it to be an interesting and inspiring day of talks.

We are delighted to report that over 250 delegates joined us across the course of the day, which is the highest ever number of attendees for an NBN Conference!  Even though we missed seeing you all face to face, we thank you very much for the support.

You can read a brief summary of the day and some of the Tweets made by delegates on the summary and social media page.

Links to all of the presentations from the event can be found below.

Craig Bennett

Craig Bennett, Chief Executive Officer, The Wildlife Trusts – “From data to delivery”

Craig didn’t use slides, so there is no Powerpoint to accompany this talk.

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Lisa Chilton

Lisa Chilton, Chief Executive Officer, NBN Trust – “Making data work for nature”

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David Roy

David Roy , Head of the Biological Records Centre, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology – “Navigating the growing diversity of systems to submit, view and share wildlife sightings”

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Mike Morris

Mike Morris, Head of programme: eBioAtlas, Nature Metrics – “eDNA: working together to scale up the measurement of nature”

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Oli Grafton

Oli Grafton, Principal Advisor for NCEA (Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment) Citizen Science & Partnerships, Natural England “Transforming our investment in England’s biological data infrastructure”

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Rona Sinclair

Rona Sinclair, Marine Data and Ecology Advisor at NatureScot “Harnessing the value of Scottish marine biodiversity data to benefit nature: streamlining data flows and unlocking marine data sources”.

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Clare Blencowe

Clare Blencowe, Chair of Recorder 6 Steering Group and Manager of Sussex BRC – “A strategic perspective on Recorder 6”

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Professor Rosie Hails

The Sir John Burnett Memorial Lecture – Professor Rosie Hails, Nature and Science Director at the National Trust – “Biodiversity data: from its collection to our use”

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Michael Pocock

Michael Pocock, Senior Researcher, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology – “Recording nature where it matters: The DECIDE Project for precision citizen science”

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Lisa Chilton and Ellen Wilson

Lisa Chilton, Chief Executive Officer, NBN Trust and Ellen Wilson, SBIF Co-Chair – “Scotland’s Better Biodiversity Data project”

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Sophia Ratcliffe

Sophia Ratcliffe, NBN Trust Data Manager – “Highlights from the NBN Atlas”

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Charlotte Martin

Charlotte Martin, Scotland’s Rural College – “A Glowing Report for Scotland”

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Holly Woo

Holly Woo, The Open University – “Using historic records to identify changes in ancient woodland flora in a new urban landscape”

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Genevieve Barrett

Genevieve Barrett, University Centre Sparsholt – “Hedgerow Heterogeneity and Management, the Influence on Breeding Populations of Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)”

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Daniel Salliss

Daniel Salliss, Research Associate, University of East Anglia (UEA) – “Optimising landscape scale conservation interventions through Biodiversity Auditing”

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Tim Hirsch

Tim Hirsch, Deputy Director, Head of Participation and Engagement, GBIF Secretariat – “Sharing data on a global scale: how records submitted to the NBN Atlas are used globally through GBIF”

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Additional recordings

Welcome and Introductions

End of morning Q&A

Morning session closing remarks, including award of NBN Trust Honorary Membership

End of Conference closing remarks

NBN Trust AGM 2021

Four short videos from NBN Trust members

Questions and discussions from Google Docs

During the course of the day Google Docs were used to ask questions or start discussions. The contents of those open documents have now been brought together and summarised in a single pdf.

Download the Q and A and discussion points document.