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#LivingData2025 Theme 4 - 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community Engagement & Capacity Building

This theme explores methods and theories of engaging diverse global scientific, education, Indigenous and local communities.❤️

🔗https://www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html

@tdwg #OBIS #GEOBON #HumboldtInstitute

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Feel free to contact myself or @leeselab if you have any further questions. Contact info is in the attached post.

#biomonitoring #biodiversity #standardization #metabarcoding #metagenomics #GEOBON #pensoft #MBMG

I'm happy to be a guest editor for the open access online journal **Metabarcoding and Metagenomics.** We're inviting contributions for the special issue "**Towards standardized molecular biodiversity monitoring".**

✅ 15% discount on article processing charges
✅ The first two Early Career Researcher manuscripts received and accepted will be published for free

Deadline March 15, 2024

#biodiversity #metabarcoding #metagenomics #standardization #GEOBON #pensoft #MBMG

Invitation text says: "Genetic tools are well-established for both targeted and taxonomically broad biodiversity characterization; however, they are not yet widely applied beyond proof-of-concepts or pilot studies. To support biodiversity monitoring from small to global scale in environmental stewardship programs, especially as we face a climate emergency and biodiversity decline, we need standardized and robust workflows from field sampling to detection/sequencing to metrics to characterize biodiversity. Genetic methods including environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding and metagenomics have proven particularly powerful in this context. Following the GEO BON 2023 Global Conference "Monitoring Biodiversity for Action", this topical issue invites contributions that focus on the establishment of standards and best practices enabling upscaling of genetic methods to geographically extensive, long-term monitoring efforts. Submissions will be considered that explore standards at any stage in the monitoring workflow, from sampling strategy to bioinformatic analysis and interpretation/communication of genetic data. We particularly welcome contributions that consider issues of accessibility and inclusivity and investigate technology transfer to non-traditional end-users. Through a series of papers published, this topical issue will demonstrate how molecular methods can be standardized, automated and upscaled to be used for monitoring biodiversity in varied environmental settings."

📢 Check out our latest NEWSLETTER with updates from the @geobon secretariat and our network, upcoming events & exciting opportunities!

📰👉https://bit.ly/newsletter-april-2023

Register as a GEO BON member and join our global network 👉 https://members.geobon.org/register/index

#GEOBON #BiodiversityNews

"GEO BON is developing BON in a Box as a practical means by which the most effective and advanced tools can be deployed around the world to support the development of enhanced biodiversity observation Networks, increase the quantity and quality of biodiversity observations, and better connect them to policy-making."

Looking forward to explore these boxes ! #EMI #GeoBON #biodiversity #OpenScience

https://boninabox.geobon.org/

And that’s a wrap from the @geobon team #COP15
Huge thanks to our delegation that worked long hours in person and online to support the negotiations and spread the message that #GEOBON is here to support the implementation of the new UN CBD’s Global Biodiversity Framework

🇨🇦 Are you attending #COP15? 🌱

Come and see us at our booth 👋

📍Room 220ab booth #321

#ForNature #GBiOS #GEOBON

You could also join FutureEarth

#GEOBON worked with #FutureEarth to produce science briefs for #COP15
on climate change, pollution, protected areas, monitoring, agriculture, restoration, and sustainable use...
https://geobon.org/science-briefs/

Discover the evidence and talk about this science during the meeting.

#GEOBON

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