Science Symposium
The 2012 GBIF Science Symposium will be held on 19 September in association with the 19th meeting of the GBIF Governing Board.The symposium will take place at the Lillehammer University College and is open to the public.However, for practical purposes please register at http://gb19.gbif.org/GB19/GB19reg/freeReg0
The theme of this year's symposium will be GBIF at work - biodiversity data at the service of science and society. Nathan Swenson, the winner of the 2012 Ebbe Nielsen Prize, will open with a keynote presentation. This will be followed by seven other presentations and a panel discussion focussing on GBIF as a data infrastructure to inform science and society.
The symposium will be followed by a cocktail reception.
Download the full programme here or click on the image above.
Programme overview
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Symposium introduction and welcoming remarks Leonard Krishtalka Chair, GBIF Science Committee Kari Kjenndalen Director, Lillehammer University College |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | The distribution and diversity of woody plant function
on continental scales Presenter: Nathan Swenson GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Prize winner 2012 Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | The Wallace Initiative - A large-scale modelling effort
to identify the potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity,
mitigation risks and adaptation options Presenter: Jeff Price |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Determining ecological risk on landscapes beyond
protected areas Presenter: Kathy Willis |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee Break |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | 'Genetic consequences of climate change Presenter: Inger Greve Alsos |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | How biotic interactions may alter future predictions of
species distributions: future threats to the persistence of the arctic
fox in Fennoscandia Presenter: Anouschka Hof |
| 12:20 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | GBIF and open access at the 'three poles' - the Arctic,
Antarctic and Himalaya-Hindu Kush regions: a multispecies seabird
publication example Presenter: Falk Huettmann |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Biodiversity in dead wood: databasing ecosystem roles
in a species rich micro-cosmos Presenter: Jogeir N. Stokland |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Herbarium and field records indicating climate change
effects on fungi Presenter: Håvard Kauserud |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee Break |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | A Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook Presenter: Donald Hobern |
| 15:50 - 17:00 | Round-table discussion Future priorities for GBIF: the users' perspective Chair: Leonard Krishtalka |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Cocktail reception |