GEO BON Open Science Conference 2020

GEO BON Open Science Conference 2020
GEO BON
Open Science Conference
& All Hands Meeting
2020
06-10 July 2020, 100% VIRTUAL
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The GEO BON Open Science Conference and All Hands Meeting 2020 will be a milestone event that will bring together all those involved and interested in the development of Biodiversity Observation Networks and Essential Biodiversity Variables, as well as their potential to support global biodiversity monitoring and conservation post 2020...
Get ready for the launch of the GEO BON OSC/iNaturalist 2020 projects:
Project links and info here
Where
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When
Monday to Friday
06 - 10 July, 2020
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Winners of the GEO BON OSC/iNaturalist 2020 projec...
by Christian Langer | Sep 08, 2020
The winners and the runner-ups of our GEO BON OSC/iNaturalist 2020 project have been confirmed.The winners' names in each category are as follows:1. Most Observations:Winner: Sarah BirdRunne...
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Species observations
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by Christian Langer | Jul 02, 2020
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Book of Abstracts online
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Keynote Speakers
Professionals from around the globe
William Cheung
UBC / Canada
Title:
Essential biodiversity and ecosystem service variables for the ocean
© ires.ubc.ca |
About William
Melodie Mc Geoch
Monash University / Australia
Title:
What monitoring invasive species has taught us about governing biodiversity knowledge
© research.monash.edu |
About Melodie
Carlo Rondinini
Sapienza University / Italy
Title:
The InSiGHTS framework for modelling species' Area of Habitat
© IISD Reporting Services |
About Carlo
Becky Chaplin Kramer
Stanford University / USA
Title:
Securing Critical Natural Capital: Science and Policy Frontiers for Essential Ecosystem Service Variables
© environment.umn.edu |
About Becky
David Cooper
CBD / Canada
© IISD Reporting Services |
About David
Anne Larigauderie
IPBES / Germany
Title:
IPBES: Science and Evidence for Biodiversity Policy and Action
© IISD Reporting Services |
About Anne
Scott Loarie
iNaturalist / USA
© California Academy of Sciences |
About Scott
Panel Speakers
Panel Speakers on BON Development
David Obura
CORDIO / Kenya
Title:
The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network – the Thematic BON for Coral Reefs
© IISD Reporting Services |
About David
Aletta Bonn
iDiv / Germany
Title:
Biodiversity Observation Networks are People Networks
© Stefan Bernhardt/ iDiv |
About Aletta
Haigen Xu
NIES / China
Title:
The Design and Operation of China Biodiversity Observation Network
© IISD Reporting Services |
About Haigen
Maria Cecilia Londoño
Humboldt Institute / Colombia
Title:
Communities of practice for supporting multiscale decision making in a megadiverse country
© peacecolombia.org |
About Maria
Tom Christensen
Aarhus University / Denmark
Title:
Monitoring and reporting changes in Arctic Biodiversity and ecosystems
© IISD Reporting Services |
About Tom
Lucy Waruingi
African CS / Kenya
Title:
EBV to support National Reporting on Aichi Targets in Africa (The case for Kenya)
© developmentcorridors.org |
About Lucy
Conference Program
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UTC +2
(Leipzig, Paris, Rome)
Agenda
Monday, 6th July
7:00-8:00 AM
Mixer
Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone
8:00-9:30 AM
Open Science Conference Session 1 (OSC1)
Essential Biodiversity Variables and Ecosystem Services
Session 1:
Ecosystem Function
Chair:
Pedro Leitao
Session 3:
Ecosystem Structure
Chairs:
Gary Geller, Ilaria Palumbo & Brian O'Connor
Session 4:
Community Composition
Chairs:
Simon Ferrier & Wilfried Thuiller
Session 5:
Species Populations
Chairs:
Melodie Mc Geoch & Walter Jetz
Session 7:
Genetic Composition
Chairs:
Anna MacDonald, Margaret Hunter & Sean Hoban
9:30-10:00 AM
Coffee break
10:00-11:30 AM
Open Science Conference Session 1 (OSC1)
Essential Biodiversity Variables and Ecosystem Services
Session 1:
Ecosystem Function
Chair:
Pedro Leitao
Session 3:
Ecosystem Structure
Chairs:
Gary Geller, Ilaria Palumbo & Brian O'Connor
Session 4:
Community Composition
Chairs:
Simon Ferrier & Wilfried Thuiller
Session 5:
Species Populations
Chairs:
Melodie Mc Geoch & Walter Jetz
Session 7:
Genetic Composition
Chairs:
Anna MacDonald, Margaret Hunter & Sean Hoban
13:00-13:30 PM
Keynote:
Policy needs
David Cooper
Anne Larigauderie
Discussion 13:30-14:00
14:00-15:30 PM
Opening
Henrique Pereira
Mike Gill
15:30-17:00 PM
Open Science Conference Session 2 (OSC2)
Essential Biodiversity Variables and Ecosystem Services
Session 1:
Ecosystem Function
Chair:
Pedro Leitao
Session 2:
Ecosystem Services
Chairs:
Ilse Geijzendorffer, Maria Vallejos & Odirilwe Selomane
Session 3:
Ecosystem Structure
Chairs:
Gary Geller, Ilaria Palumbo & Brian O'Connor
Session 4:
Community Composition
Chairs:
Simon Ferrier & Wilfried Thuiller
Session 5:
Species Populations
Chairs:
Melodie Mc Geoch & Walter Jetz
Session 6:
Species Traits
Chairs:
Jens Kattge & Mark Costello
Session 7:
Genetic Composition
Chairs:
Anna MacDonald, Margaret Hunter & Sean Hoban
17:00-17:30 PM
Coffee break
17:30-19:00 PM
Open Science Conference Session 2 (OSC2)
Essential Biodiversity Variables and Ecosystem Services
Session 1:
Ecosystem Function
Chair:
Pedro Leitao
Session 2:
Ecosystem Services
Chairs:
Ilse Geijzendorffer, Maria Vallejos & Odirilwe Selomane
Session 3:
Ecosystem Structure
Chairs:
Gary Geller, Ilaria Palumbo & Brian O'Connor
Session 4:
Community Composition
Chairs:
Simon Ferrier & Wilfried Thuiller
Session 5:
Species Populations
Chairs:
Melodie Mc Geoch & Walter Jetz
Session 6:
Species Traits
Chairs:
Jens Kattge & Mark Costello
Session 7:
Genetic Composition
Chairs:
Anna MacDonald, Margaret Hunter & Sean Hoban
19:00-20:00 PM
GEO BON OSC/iNaturalist
Project launch
Scott Loarie
20:00-21:00 PM
Mixer
Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone.
UTC +2
(Leipzig, Paris, Rome)
Agenda
Tuesday, 7th July
07:00-8:00 AM
Mixer
Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone
08:00- 9:30 AM
Open Science Conference Session 3 (OSC3)
Thematic Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs), National/Regional BONs and BON Development, Policy Support and EBV Data
Session 1:
Freshwater BON
Chairs:
Eren Turak & Andreas Bruder
Joint session 3:
BON Development
Chairs:
Morning Petteri Vihervaara, Afternoon Miguel Fernandez
Session 4:
Policy Support
Chairs:
Laetitia Navarro & Cornelia Krug
Session 5:
EBV Data
Chairs:
Nestor Fernandez, Daniel Kissling & Rob Guralnick
Session 6:
Remote Sensing
Chairs:
Andrew Skidmore & Nicholas Coops
9:30-10:00 AM
Coffee break
10:00- 11:30 AM
Open Science Conference Session 3 (OSC3)
Thematic Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs), National/Regional BONs and BON Development, Policy Support and EBV Data
Session 1:
Freshwater BON
Chairs:
Eren Turak & Andreas Bruder
Joint session 3:
BON Development
Chairs:
Morning Petteri Vihervaara, Afternoon Miguel Fernandez
Session 4:
Policy Support
Chairs:
Laetitia Navarro & Cornelia Krug
Session 5:
EBV Data
Chairs:
Nestor Fernandez, Daniel Kissling & Rob Guralnick
Session 6:
Remote Sensing
Chairs:
Andrew Skidmore & Nicholas Coops
11:30-12:30 AM
Project meetings
EBV2020 #1. Indicators needs for conservation Post-2020
; 11:30-12:30
13:00-14:30 PM
Keynote:
EBV and EESV Development
Becky Chaplin-Kramer
William Cheung
Discussion: 14:00-14:30
14:30-16:00 PM
Plenary Wrap-up:
OSC1+ OSC2
16:00- 17:15 PM
Open Science Conference Session 4 (OSC4)
Thematic Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs), National/Regional BONs and BON Development, Policy Support and EBV Data
Session 1:
Freshwater BON
Chairs:
Eren Turak & Andreas Bruder
Session 2:
Marine BON
Chairs:
Frank Muller-Karger, Isabel Sousa Pinto & Mark Costello
Joint session 3:
BON Development
Chairs:
Morning Mike Gill, Afternoon Miguel Fernandez
Session 4:
Policy Support
Chairs:
Laetitia Navarro & Cornelia Krug
Session 5:
EBV Data
Chairs:
Nestor Fernandez, Daniel Kissling & Rob Guralnick
17:15-17:45 PM
Coffee break
17:45-19:00 PM
Open Science Conference Session 4 (OSC4)
Thematic Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs), National/Regional BONs and BON Development, Policy Support and EBV Data
Session 1:
Freshwater BON
Chairs:
Eren Turak & Andreas Bruder
Session 2:
Marine BON
Chairs:
Frank Muller-Karger, Isabel Sousa Pinto & Mark Costello
Joint session 3:
BON Development
Chairs:
Morning Mike Gill, Afternoon Miguel Fernandez
Session 4:
Policy Support
Chairs:
Laetitia Navarro & Cornelia Krug
Session 5:
EBV Data
Chairs:
Nestor Fernandez, Daniel Kissling & Rob Guralnick
19:00-20:00 PM
Demo of EBV Portal
20:00-21:00 PM
Poster Session 1
21:00 PM
Mixer
Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone.
UTC +2
(Leipzig, Paris, Rome)
Agenda
Wednesday, 8th July
07:00-8:00 AM
Mixer
Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone
08:00-9:30 AM
All Hands Meetings
Conservation genetics networks and policy
Chairs: Anna MacDonald and Sarah Pearson
Next-generation technologies for monitoring community-composition EBVs
Chairs: Wilfried Thuiller and Simon Ferrier
9:30-10:00 AM
Coffee break
10:00-11:30 AM
All Hands Meetings
What makes a good genetic EBV dataset?
Chairs: Catherine Grueber and Anna MacDonald
Next-generation technologies for monitoring community-composition EBVs
Chairs: Wilfried Thuiller and Simon Ferrier
Ecosystem Structure EBV Working Group All Hands
Chair: Brian O'Connor, 10:00-12:00
11:30-12:30 AM
Project meetings
EBV2020 #2. EBV-derived indicators for conservation Post-2020;
11:30-12:45
Tracking freshwater biodiversity change in Islands of the South Pacific
GlobDiversity – the development and engineering of remote sensing enabled Essential Biodiversity Variables
13:00-14:30 PM
Panel
Panel discussion on BON Development
David Obura
Aletta Bonn
Haigen Xu
Maria Cecilia Londono
Tom Christensen
Luci Waruingi
14:30-16:00 PM
Plenary Wrap-up:
OSC3 & OSC4
16:00-17:15 PM
All Hands Meetings
Monitoring Ecosystem Services: From local to global
16:00 - 18:30
Conservation genetics networks and policy
Chairs: Sean Hoban & Maggie Hunter
Ecosystem Structure EBV Working Group All Hands
Chair: Brian O'Connor, 10:00-12:00
17:15-17:45 PM
Coffee break
17:45-19:00 PM
All Hands Meetings
Monitoring Ecosystem Services
From local to global, 16:00 - 18:30
What makes a good genetic EBV dataset?
Chairs: Sean Hoban & Maggie Hunter
19:00-20:00 PM
Project meetings
EBV2020 #3. EBV- or EESV-derived indicators for conservation Post-2020;
19:00-21:00
CBMP Freshwater Products
TAO, the Tropical Andes Observatory
19:00-21:00
20:00 PM
Mixer
Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone.
21:00-23:00 PM
All Hands Meeting
Species Populations Working Group Meeting
Chairs: Walter Jetz and Melodie Mc Geoch
UTC +2
(Leipzig, Paris, Rome)
Agenda
Thursday, 9th July
07:00-8:00 AM
Mixer
Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone
08:00-9:30 AM
All Hands Meetings
FWBON Session 1 Introduction to FWBON. The past, the present, the people
9:30-10:00 AM
Coffee break
10:00-11:30 AM
All Hands Meetings
FWBON Session 2 Activities:
1) What we are doing now 2) What we planning to do 3) New ideas
BON Development Session 1
Chair: Petteri, 10h to 11h30
12:15-13:00 AM
Poster Session
13:00-14:30 PM
Keynote
EBVs and EESVs for policy
Melodie Mc Geoch
Carlo Rondinini
14:30-16:00 PM
IC Meeting
16:00-17:15 PM
All Hands Meetings
MBON/FWBON joint session 4:
Darwin Core + OBIS & Case studies
16:00-16:05
- Opening of the session
16:05-16:25
- More than the sum of its parts: The rationale for using Darwin Core to integrate biological observations. Abby Benson. U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States. (15 minutes talk + 5 minutes QA)
16:25- 16:40
- Introduction to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS). Ward Appeltans. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (10 minutes talk + 5 minutes QA)
16:40-16:55
- Building products and applications on OBIS. Pieter Provoost. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (10 minutes talk + 5 minutes QA)
16:55-17:10
- Implementing best practices in a continental scale Marine Biodiversity Observing Network - MBON Pole to Pole. Enrique Montes. Institute for Marine Remote Sensing. College of Marine Science. University of South Florida. USA. (10 minutes talk + 5 minutes QA)
17:10-17:15
– Discussion
17:15-17:45 PM
Coffee break
17:45-19:00 PM
All Hands Meetings
FWBON Session 4:
Connecting people and activities for the next two years
BON Development Session 2
Co-chaired by Maria Cecilia Londoño & Mike Gill 17:45-19:00
19:00-20:00 PM
Microsoft AI for Earth Presentation
Dan Morris
21:00 PM
Mixer
Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone.
UTC +2
(Leipzig, Paris, Rome)
Agenda
Friday, 10th July
08:30-9:45 AM
All Hands Meetings
EBV-Data Workshop I:
Developing standards and an infrastructure for the Essential Biodiversity Variables. Chair: Néstor Fernández
9:45-10:15 AM
Coffee break
10:15-11:30 AM
All Hands Meetings
EBV-Data Workshop I:
Developing standards and an infrastructure for the Essential Biodiversity Variables. Chair: Néstor Fernández
13:30-16:00 PM
Closing
Wrap up by all WGs and BONs Closing remarks
Closing Remarks & 10 min. presentation by new GEO BON co-chair (TBC)
16:00-17:15 PM
All Hands Meetings
Policy Support AH Meeting:
EBVs, EESVs and BONs in support of Policies post-2020: meeting of the GEO BON Policy Task Force. Chairs: Laetitia Navarro and Cornelia Krug. Start Time: 16h30 - end time ±19h
EBV-Data Workshop II:
Addressing gaps in mobilizing in-situ monitoring data. Chair: Robert Guralnick
17:15-17:45 AM
Coffee break
17:45-19:00 PM
All Hands Meetings
Policy Support AH Meeting:
EBVs, EESVs and BONs in support of Policies post-2020: meeting of the GEO BON Policy Task Force. Chairs: Laetitia Navarro and Cornelia Krug. Start Time: 16h30 - end time ±19h
EBV-Data Workshop II:
Addressing gaps in mobilizing in-situ monitoring data. Chair: Robert Guralnick
Committees
Members of the Organizing and Scientific Committee
Organizing Committee
Henrique Miguel Pereira
GEO BON Co-Chair
Mike Gill
GEO BON Co-Chair
Gary Geller
NASA Ecological Forecasting Program
Laetitia Navarro
GEO BON Executive Secretary
Christian Langer
GEO BON IT Officer
Nestor Fernandez
Biodiversity Scientist
HyeJin Kim
Biodiversity Scientist
Karolin Dietrich
GEO BON Administrative Assistant
Laura Catalina Quintero Uribe
Doctoral Researcher
Jessica Junker
Postdoc
Annika Zuleger
GEO BON Research Assistant
Scientific Committee
Name
Institution
Country
Capacity
Andreas Bruder
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
Switzerland
Freshwater BON
Tom Christensen
Aarhus University
Denmark
Arctic BON
Brian O'Connor
Mott MacDonald
UK
Ecosystem Structure WG
Mark Costello
University of Auckland
New Zealand
Marine BON, Species Traits WG
Nicholas Coops
The University of British Columbia
Canada
Remote Sensing TF
Jean-Denis Vigne
National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)
France
French BON
Yvan Le Bras
National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)
France
French BON
Simon Ferrier
CSIRO
Australia
Community Composition WG, EBV Development TF
Ilse Geijzendorffer
Tour du Valat
France
Ecosystem Services WG
Carlos Guerra
iDiv
Germany
Soil BON
Sean Hoban
Morton Arboretum
USA
Genetic Composition WG
Margaret Hunter
U.S. Geological Survey
USA
Genetic Composition WG
Walter Jetz
Yale University
USA
Species Populations WG
Jens Kattge
Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry
Germany
Species Traits WG
Anna MacDonald
Australian National University
Australia
Genetic Composition WG
Melodie McGeoch
Monash University
Australia
Species Populations WG
Robert Guralnick
University of Florida
USA
Data TF
Frank Muller-Karger
University of South Florida
USA
Marine BON
Eun-Shik Kim
Kookmin University, Seoul
South Korea
AP BON
Daniel Kissling
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Coordinator GLOBIS-B, Data TF
Pedro J. Leitão
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Germany
Ecosystem Function WG
Maria Cecilia Londoño
Alexander von Humboldt Institute Colombia
Colombia
Colombia BON, BON Development WG
Ilaria Palumbo
Joint Research Centre
Italy
Ecosystem Structure WG
Isabel Sousa Pinto
University of Porto
Portugal
Marine BON
Michael Schaepman
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Coordinator BioDiscovery & GlobDiversity
Ghada El Serafy
DELTARES
Netherlands
Ecosystem Function WG, Coordinator ECOPOTENTIAL
Odirilwe Selomane
University of Stockholm
Sweden
Ecosystem Services WG
Andrew Skidmore
University of Twente
The Netherlands
Remote Sensing TF
Wilfried Thuiller
University Grenoble Alpes
France
Community Composition WG
Eren Turak
Office of Environment & Heritage
Australia
Freshwater BON
Maria Vallejos
University of Buenos Aires
Argentinia
Ecosystem Services WG
Sheila Vergara
University of the Philippines Los Baños
Philippines
AP BON
Petteri Vihervaara
Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki
Finland
BON Development WG
Diana Wall
Colorado State University
USA
Soil BON
Haigen Xu
Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences
China
China BON
Tetsukazu Yahara
Kyushu University
Japan
AP BON
Pricing
Participation to the Open Science Conference and All Hands meeting
Regular
Early Bird (until 7th June)
€50
Late Bird
€75
MSc and PhD students
Early Bird (until 7th June)
€25
Late Bird
€35
Developing countries
Early Bird (until 7th June)
€25
Late Bird
€35
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Contact
For general enquiries, please use the contact address or form below
Address
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Deutscher Platz 5e
04103 Leipzig, GERMANY
Phone Number
+49 (0)341 9733141
Email
conf2020@geobon.org
Support
The GEO BON Open Science Conference 2020 is funded by