As one part of this initiative, Microsoft’s AI for Earth program and the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) Secretariat are launching a new US$1 million grant program. Grants of US$500k in financial funding and US$500k in Microsoft Azure credits
As we informed you earlier this month, we have been monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic closely while investigating potential formats to hold the Open Science Conference and All Hands Meeting. Today we confirm that the event will be held from July 6th to 10th as a 100% virtual meeting. We are
GEO BON will be holding the Open Science Conference and All Hands Meeting from July 6th to 10th, 2020. We are monitoring updates from local and international health authorities to decide whether the meeting will be held as planned in Leipzig, Germany, or whether we will hold a virtual meeting
GEO BON continues promoting the development of infrastructures supporting the production and dissemination of the Essential Biodiversity Variables and derived indicators. The workshop “BON in the Cloud”, held in Leipzig on February 13-14th, identified the most pressing needs for developing cloud-based systems in support of biodiversity observation networks. Workshop participants
The EBV2020 is a GEO BON initiative to showcase the use of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) from global to sub-global levels integrating in situ and remote sensing observations to generate policy-relevant data products. The first workshop in October 2019 (SERC, USA) brought together the teams that are generating EBV relevant products across six classes
A lot happened last week between the first World Biodiversity Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and the second meeting of the Open Ended Working Group of the CBD in Rome, Italy! These events are key milestones in a pivotal year for biodiversity, with many more events, including the GEO BON OSC,
The GEO BON delegation keeps engaging in the consultation on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework while at the second meeting of the Open Ended Working Group of the CBD held this week in Rome, Italy. To read the opening statement made by GEO BON
Currently, the GEO BON secretariat is hosted by iDiv (www.idiv.de) and is supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG). With the second and non-renewable terms of the current GEO BON Co-Chairs to close in 2020, GEO BON is seeking offers to host the secretariat starting October 2020 (start dates within
The GEO Report of Impact for 2016-2019 was made available online today! GEO BON and some activities of the BONs, Working Groups and Secretariat are highlighted as key generators of impact for biodiversity.
The GEO BON Secretariat is happy to officially announce the establishment of the Americas Biodiversity Observation Network (Americas-BON), which was endorsed by the GEO BON Implementation Committee at its last in-person meeting in July 2019. The Americas-BON becomes the third Regional BON of the network, together with the Arctic BON
