The 14th NBN Annual Conference will take place on Friday 21st November at The Royal Society.
The theme is:
“Climate, Collaboration and Collection – informing the new conservation agenda”
We are pleased to have been able to take into account comments received as part of our survey following the 2013 Conference and to that end, we have created a programme, which we are sure will make for an interesting Conference with lots of opportunities for networking and interaction.
Please note that NBN workshops will be taking place on Thursday 20 November and Sat 22 November at the Natural History Museum. These workshops are to undertake a Gateway user needs analysis and to revise the NBN Gateway Terms and Conditions. For more information about these and to express an interest in attending please click here.
Download the programme as a pdf.
Download the talk outlines as a pdf.
Cost
The cost to attend is the same as last year:
- £50 standard rate (Early bird bookings closed on 30th September)
- Discounted rates or free tickets for members
Go to the bookings page to book your ticket
PROGRAMME
Morning session
09:30 – 10.00 Registration and coffee
Chairman: NBN Trust Chief Executive, John Sawyer
10.10 Welcome and introduction by NBN Trust Chairman, Professor Michael Hassell
10.15 Keynote address: Professor Ian Boyd, Chief Scientific Adviser at Defra
‘Biodiversity, habitats and Earth Observation: futures for Big data in the UK’
10.45 Katie Winney, National Trust
‘Biological recording in a changing world. Collecting data through to managing for change on National Trust land’
11.05 Matt Davies, Greenspace Information Greater London (GiGL)
‘Daylighting recent GiGL projects’
11.25 Coffee / Tea break
11.55 Special presentations
12.05 Peter Doherty, Atlas of Living Australia
‘The Atlas of Living Australia – Open Infrastructure facilitates Innovation!’
12.25 Speed talks (4 x 5 minutes)
- John Tweddle, Natural History Museum – ‘Introducing 'Identification: Trainers for the Future'
- Lori Lawson Handley, University of Hull – ‘How will the molecular revolution contribute to biological recording?’
- Chris Raper, Natural History Museum – ‘What’s next for the UK Species Inventory?’
- Charles Roper, Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre – ‘Open Data: The Future of Data Sharing’
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch, posters, displays and demonstrations
Afternoon session
Chairman: NBN Trust Chairman, Professor Michael Hassell
14.00 Welcome to the afternoon session.
14.05 The Sir John Burnett Memorial Lecture, 2014
Professor Chris Thomas – ‘Biodiversity Change and Conservation in the Anthropocene’
14.35 Dave Goulson, University of Sussex
‘Pollinator monitoring (or lack of it) and climate change’
14.55 Savita Custead, Bristol Natural History Consortium
‘Can BioBlitz be a pathway to future recording?’
15.15 Coffee / tea break
15.45 Richard Pywell, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
'The use of biological records to answer pressing environmental challenges'
16.05 John Sawyer, NBN Trust
'Refreshing the NBN strategy – delivering a data driven partnership for nature'
16.25 Chairman’s summing up.
16.30 End of conference
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BioBlitz Conference
As well as the NBN Conference, you might also be interested in the BioBlitz Conference on Thursday 18th November in Bristol. BioBlitz is a fun and exciting event format for introducing people to their local green spaces, wildlife and citizen science. Members of the public join experienced naturalists, students, volunteers and scientists in a race against time to discover, identify and document as many species as possible, creating a snapshot of baseline biological records data in the process. The annual BioBlitz conference is an opportunity to reflect on how we can better use BioBlitz as a tool to help recruit the next generation of wildlife recorders, highlight the importance of biological data collection and get people involved.
More information can be found here