Global Mapping of Biodiversity - Electronic conference in September

Please note the following Electronic Conference which could be interesting if there could be a role for school networks to contribute to the data collection. Most of us will be busy at Helsinki while the electronic conference is going on though!

THIS IS THE INVITATION FROM THE ORGANISERS:

Electronic Conference announcement: “European contribution to GEO BON” 1st – 5th September 2008

Dear colleagues,

 Welcome to the electronic conference “European contribution to GEO BON” which will run from the 1st – 5th September 2008.  The results of this electronic conference will be presented at the Biostrat workshop in Cegléd, Hungary, on the 25th – 27th September 2008.

The main objectives of the workshop are to:

- discuss a strategy to support the implementation of the conceptual approach for GEO BON at the European scale

- to propose research priorities to support the involvement of the EU research community into the implementation of GEO BON.

GEO BON (Global Biodiversity Observation Network) is a global network, that aims to design, plan and implement a global biodiversity observation system that will collect, manage, analyze and share data on the status and trends of the world’s biodiversity, and regularly report its findings through GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) under GEO (Group on Earth Observations).

As a participant of this e-conference you will automatically receive all posted contributions via your e-mail, which you will also be able to respond to via e-mail.  There is also the option to post contributions on the web-board at http://forums.ceh.ac.uk:8080/~biostrat.  For guidelines on how to contribute to this e-conference please see the biota website www.nbu.ac.uk/biota/guidelines_to_contribute.htm

If you would like to opt out of receiving e-mail notifications of posted contributions but would still like access to the web-board, or be un-subscribed from this e-conference altogether please notify Fiona Grant on fian@ceh.ac.uk as soon as possible.

We would greatly appreciate your help in forwarding this announcement to anyone who might be interested.

Kind regards, E-conference organizers.