2024

GBIF Norway was represented at the Norwegian Symposium of Biosystematics in Oslo from 29th to 30th October.

We proudly announce that the 2024 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge winner is GBIF Norway Data Manager Rukaya Sarah Johaadien! The GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is the most prestigious GBIF award for innovative applications of open-access biodiversity data by scientists, informaticians, data modelers, cartographers, and other experts. Rukaya was recognized for her work on developing an AI chatbot pipeline to digitize and publish natural history specimens in GBIF.

GBIF Norway contributed to a joint Biodiversa+ GBIF symposium in Helsinki on the 16th of April 2024.

The GBIF Graduate Researchers Award is an annual incentive prize that seeks to inspire innovative applications of open-access biodiversity data by scientists, informaticians, data modelers, cartographers, and other experts.

The GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is an annual incentive prize that seeks to inspire innovative applications of open-access biodiversity data by scientists, informaticians, data modelers, cartographers, and other experts.

The BioDATA Advanced project includes the exchange of student interns. Two 4-month MSc student internships (1 February - 31 May 2024) at the University of Oslo Natural History Museum, in biodiversity data skills and molecular methods.