GEO BON Open Science Conference 2020

About the Conference

The GEO BON Open Science Conference and All Hands Meeting 2020 will be a milestone event that will bring together all those involved and interested in the development of Biodiversity Observation Networks and Essential Biodiversity Variables, as well as their potential to support global biodiversity monitoring and conservation post 2020... Read more

Get ready for the launch of the GEO BON OSC/iNaturalist 2020 projects:
Project links and info here

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When

Monday to Friday
06 - 10 July, 2020

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The winners and the runner-ups of our GEO BON OSC/iNaturalist 2020 project have been confirmed.The winners' names in each category are as follows:1. Most Observations:Winner: Sarah BirdRunne...

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Keynote Speakers

Professionals from around the globe

William Cheung

UBC / Canada

Melodie Mc Geoch

Monash University / Australia

Carlo Rondinini

Sapienza University / Italy

Becky Chaplin Kramer

Stanford University / USA

David Cooper

CBD / Canada

Anne Larigauderie

IPBES / Germany

Scott Loarie

iNaturalist / USA

Panel Speakers

Panel Speakers on BON Development

David Obura

CORDIO / Kenya

Aletta Bonn

iDiv / Germany

Haigen Xu

NIES / China

Maria Cecilia Londoño

Humboldt Institute / Colombia

Tom Christensen

Aarhus University / Denmark

Lucy Waruingi

African CS / Kenya

Conference Program

Program published by the GEO BON secretariat

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UTC +2
(Leipzig, Paris, Rome)

Agenda

Monday, 6th July

7:00-8:00 AM

Mixer

Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone

8:00-9:30 AM

Open Science Conference Session 1 (OSC1)

Essential Biodiversity Variables and Ecosystem Services

Session 1: Ecosystem Function Chair: Pedro Leitao
Session 3: Ecosystem Structure Chairs: Gary Geller, Ilaria Palumbo & Brian O'Connor
Session 4: Community Composition Chairs: Simon Ferrier & Wilfried Thuiller
Session 5: Species Populations Chairs: Melodie Mc Geoch & Walter Jetz
Session 7: Genetic Composition Chairs: Anna MacDonald, Margaret Hunter & Sean Hoban

9:30-10:00 AM

Coffee break

10:00-11:30 AM

Open Science Conference Session 1 (OSC1)

Essential Biodiversity Variables and Ecosystem Services

Session 1: Ecosystem Function Chair: Pedro Leitao
Session 3: Ecosystem Structure Chairs: Gary Geller, Ilaria Palumbo & Brian O'Connor
Session 4: Community Composition Chairs: Simon Ferrier & Wilfried Thuiller
Session 5: Species Populations Chairs: Melodie Mc Geoch & Walter Jetz
Session 7: Genetic Composition Chairs: Anna MacDonald, Margaret Hunter & Sean Hoban

13:00-13:30 PM

Keynote: Policy needs

David Cooper

Anne Larigauderie

Discussion 13:30-14:00

14:00-15:30 PM

Opening

Henrique Pereira

Mike Gill

15:30-17:00 PM

Open Science Conference Session 2 (OSC2)

Essential Biodiversity Variables and Ecosystem Services

Session 1: Ecosystem Function Chair: Pedro Leitao
Session 2: Ecosystem Services Chairs: Ilse Geijzendorffer, Maria Vallejos & Odirilwe Selomane
Session 3: Ecosystem Structure Chairs: Gary Geller, Ilaria Palumbo & Brian O'Connor
Session 4: Community Composition Chairs: Simon Ferrier & Wilfried Thuiller
Session 5: Species Populations Chairs: Melodie Mc Geoch & Walter Jetz
Session 6: Species Traits Chairs: Jens Kattge & Mark Costello
Session 7: Genetic Composition Chairs: Anna MacDonald, Margaret Hunter & Sean Hoban

17:00-17:30 PM

Coffee break

17:30-19:00 PM

Open Science Conference Session 2 (OSC2)

Essential Biodiversity Variables and Ecosystem Services

Session 1: Ecosystem Function Chair: Pedro Leitao
Session 2: Ecosystem Services Chairs: Ilse Geijzendorffer, Maria Vallejos & Odirilwe Selomane
Session 3: Ecosystem Structure Chairs: Gary Geller, Ilaria Palumbo & Brian O'Connor
Session 4: Community Composition Chairs: Simon Ferrier & Wilfried Thuiller
Session 5: Species Populations Chairs: Melodie Mc Geoch & Walter Jetz
Session 6: Species Traits Chairs: Jens Kattge & Mark Costello
Session 7: Genetic Composition Chairs: Anna MacDonald, Margaret Hunter & Sean Hoban

19:00-20:00 PM

GEO BON OSC/iNaturalist Project launch

Scott Loarie

20:00-21:00 PM

Mixer

Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone.

UTC +2
(Leipzig, Paris, Rome)

Agenda

Tuesday, 7th July

07:00-8:00 AM

Mixer

Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone

08:00- 9:30 AM

Open Science Conference Session 3 (OSC3)

Thematic Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs), National/Regional BONs and BON Development, Policy Support and EBV Data

Session 1: Freshwater BON Chairs: Eren Turak & Andreas Bruder
Joint session 3: BON Development Chairs: Morning Petteri Vihervaara, Afternoon Miguel Fernandez
Session 4: Policy Support Chairs: Laetitia Navarro & Cornelia Krug
Session 5: EBV Data Chairs: Nestor Fernandez, Daniel Kissling & Rob Guralnick
Session 6: Remote Sensing Chairs: Andrew Skidmore & Nicholas Coops

9:30-10:00 AM

Coffee break

10:00- 11:30 AM

Open Science Conference Session 3 (OSC3)

Thematic Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs), National/Regional BONs and BON Development, Policy Support and EBV Data

Session 1: Freshwater BON Chairs: Eren Turak & Andreas Bruder
Joint session 3: BON Development Chairs: Morning Petteri Vihervaara, Afternoon Miguel Fernandez
Session 4: Policy Support Chairs: Laetitia Navarro & Cornelia Krug
Session 5: EBV Data Chairs: Nestor Fernandez, Daniel Kissling & Rob Guralnick
Session 6: Remote Sensing Chairs: Andrew Skidmore & Nicholas Coops

11:30-12:30 AM

Project meetings

EBV2020 #1. Indicators needs for conservation Post-2020; 11:30-12:30

13:00-14:30 PM

Keynote: EBV and EESV Development

Becky Chaplin-Kramer

William Cheung

Discussion: 14:00-14:30

14:30-16:00 PM

Plenary Wrap-up:

OSC1+ OSC2

16:00- 17:15 PM

Open Science Conference Session 4 (OSC4)

Thematic Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs), National/Regional BONs and BON Development, Policy Support and EBV Data

Session 1: Freshwater BON Chairs: Eren Turak & Andreas Bruder
Session 2: Marine BON Chairs: Frank Muller-Karger, Isabel Sousa Pinto & Mark Costello
Joint session 3: BON Development Chairs: Morning Mike Gill, Afternoon Miguel Fernandez
Session 4: Policy Support Chairs: Laetitia Navarro & Cornelia Krug
Session 5: EBV Data Chairs: Nestor Fernandez, Daniel Kissling & Rob Guralnick

17:15-17:45 PM

Coffee break

17:45-19:00 PM

Open Science Conference Session 4 (OSC4)

Thematic Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs), National/Regional BONs and BON Development, Policy Support and EBV Data

Session 1: Freshwater BON Chairs: Eren Turak & Andreas Bruder
Session 2: Marine BON Chairs: Frank Muller-Karger, Isabel Sousa Pinto & Mark Costello
Joint session 3: BON Development Chairs: Morning Mike Gill, Afternoon Miguel Fernandez
Session 4: Policy Support Chairs: Laetitia Navarro & Cornelia Krug
Session 5: EBV Data Chairs: Nestor Fernandez, Daniel Kissling & Rob Guralnick

19:00-20:00 PM

Demo of EBV Portal

20:00-21:00 PM

Poster Session 1

21:00 PM

Mixer

Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone.

UTC +2
(Leipzig, Paris, Rome)

Agenda

Wednesday, 8th July

07:00-8:00 AM

Mixer

Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone

08:00-9:30 AM

All Hands Meetings

Conservation genetics networks and policy Chairs: Anna MacDonald and Sarah Pearson
Next-generation technologies for monitoring community-composition EBVs Chairs: Wilfried Thuiller and Simon Ferrier

9:30-10:00 AM

Coffee break

10:00-11:30 AM

All Hands Meetings

What makes a good genetic EBV dataset? Chairs: Catherine Grueber and Anna MacDonald
Next-generation technologies for monitoring community-composition EBVs Chairs: Wilfried Thuiller and Simon Ferrier
Ecosystem Structure EBV Working Group All Hands Chair: Brian O'Connor, 10:00-12:00

11:30-12:30 AM

Project meetings

EBV2020 #2. EBV-derived indicators for conservation Post-2020; 11:30-12:45
Tracking freshwater biodiversity change in Islands of the South Pacific
GlobDiversity – the development and engineering of remote sensing enabled Essential Biodiversity Variables

13:00-14:30 PM

Panel Panel discussion on BON Development

David Obura

Aletta Bonn

Haigen Xu

Maria Cecilia Londono

Tom Christensen

Luci Waruingi

14:30-16:00 PM

Plenary Wrap-up:

OSC3 & OSC4

16:00-17:15 PM

All Hands Meetings

Monitoring Ecosystem Services: From local to global 16:00 - 18:30
Conservation genetics networks and policy Chairs: Sean Hoban & Maggie Hunter
Ecosystem Structure EBV Working Group All Hands Chair: Brian O'Connor, 10:00-12:00

17:15-17:45 PM

Coffee break

17:45-19:00 PM

All Hands Meetings

Monitoring Ecosystem Services From local to global, 16:00 - 18:30
What makes a good genetic EBV dataset? Chairs: Sean Hoban & Maggie Hunter

19:00-20:00 PM

Project meetings

EBV2020 #3. EBV- or EESV-derived indicators for conservation Post-2020; 19:00-21:00
CBMP Freshwater Products
TAO, the Tropical Andes Observatory 19:00-21:00

20:00 PM

Mixer

Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone.

21:00-23:00 PM

All Hands Meeting

Species Populations Working Group Meeting Chairs: Walter Jetz and Melodie Mc Geoch

UTC +2
(Leipzig, Paris, Rome)

Agenda

Thursday, 9th July

07:00-8:00 AM

Mixer

Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone

08:00-9:30 AM

All Hands Meetings

FWBON Session 1 Introduction to FWBON. The past, the present, the people

9:30-10:00 AM

Coffee break

10:00-11:30 AM

All Hands Meetings

FWBON Session 2 Activities: 1) What we are doing now 2) What we planning to do 3) New ideas
BON Development Session 1 Chair: Petteri, 10h to 11h30

12:15-13:00 AM

Poster Session

13:00-14:30 PM

Keynote EBVs and EESVs for policy

Melodie Mc Geoch

Carlo Rondinini

14:30-16:00 PM

IC Meeting

16:00-17:15 PM

All Hands Meetings

MBON/FWBON joint session 4: Darwin Core + OBIS & Case studies

16:00-16:05 - Opening of the session
16:05-16:25 - More than the sum of its parts: The rationale for using Darwin Core to integrate biological observations. Abby Benson. U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States. (15 minutes talk + 5 minutes QA)
16:25- 16:40 - Introduction to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS). Ward Appeltans. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (10 minutes talk + 5 minutes QA)
16:40-16:55 - Building products and applications on OBIS. Pieter Provoost. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (10 minutes talk + 5 minutes QA)
16:55-17:10 - Implementing best practices in a continental scale Marine Biodiversity Observing Network - MBON Pole to Pole. Enrique Montes. Institute for Marine Remote Sensing. College of Marine Science. University of South Florida. USA. (10 minutes talk + 5 minutes QA)
17:10-17:15 – Discussion

17:15-17:45 PM

Coffee break

17:45-19:00 PM

All Hands Meetings

FWBON Session 4: Connecting people and activities for the next two years
BON Development Session 2 Co-chaired by Maria Cecilia Londoño & Mike Gill 17:45-19:00

19:00-20:00 PM

Microsoft AI for Earth Presentation

Dan Morris

21:00 PM

Mixer

Chat with other participants with a coffee, tea, beer, wine or cocktail depending on your tastes and/or time zone.

UTC +2
(Leipzig, Paris, Rome)

Agenda

Friday, 10th July

08:30-9:45 AM

All Hands Meetings

EBV-Data Workshop I: Developing standards and an infrastructure for the Essential Biodiversity Variables. Chair: Néstor Fernández

9:45-10:15 AM

Coffee break

10:15-11:30 AM

All Hands Meetings

EBV-Data Workshop I: Developing standards and an infrastructure for the Essential Biodiversity Variables. Chair: Néstor Fernández

13:30-16:00 PM

Closing

Wrap up by all WGs and BONs Closing remarks

Closing Remarks & 10 min. presentation by new GEO BON co-chair (TBC)

16:00-17:15 PM

All Hands Meetings

Policy Support AH Meeting: EBVs, EESVs and BONs in support of Policies post-2020: meeting of the GEO BON Policy Task Force. Chairs: Laetitia Navarro and Cornelia Krug. Start Time: 16h30 - end time ±19h
EBV-Data Workshop II: Addressing gaps in mobilizing in-situ monitoring data. Chair: Robert Guralnick

17:15-17:45 AM

Coffee break

17:45-19:00 PM

All Hands Meetings

Policy Support AH Meeting: EBVs, EESVs and BONs in support of Policies post-2020: meeting of the GEO BON Policy Task Force. Chairs: Laetitia Navarro and Cornelia Krug. Start Time: 16h30 - end time ±19h
EBV-Data Workshop II: Addressing gaps in mobilizing in-situ monitoring data. Chair: Robert Guralnick

Committees

Members of the Organizing and Scientific Committee

Organizing Committee

Henrique Miguel Pereira	GEO BON Co-Chair
Mike Gill	GEO BON Co-Chair
Gary Geller	NASA Ecological Forecasting Program
Laetitia Navarro	GEO BON Executive Secretary
Christian Langer	GEO BON IT Officer
Nestor Fernandez	Biodiversity Scientist
HyeJin Kim	Biodiversity Scientist
Karolin Dietrich	GEO BON Administrative Assistant
Laura Catalina Quintero Uribe	Doctoral Researcher
Jessica Junker	Postdoc
Annika Zuleger	GEO BON Research Assistant

Scientific Committee

Name	Institution	Country	Capacity
Andreas Bruder	University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland	Switzerland	Freshwater BON
Tom Christensen	Aarhus University	Denmark	Arctic BON
Brian O'Connor	Mott MacDonald	UK	Ecosystem Structure WG
Mark Costello	University of Auckland	New Zealand	Marine BON, Species Traits WG
Nicholas Coops	The University of British Columbia	Canada	Remote Sensing TF
Jean-Denis Vigne	National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)	France	French BON
Yvan Le Bras	National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)	France	French BON
Simon Ferrier	CSIRO	Australia	Community Composition WG, EBV Development TF
Ilse Geijzendorffer	Tour du Valat	France	Ecosystem Services WG
Carlos Guerra	iDiv	Germany	Soil BON
Sean Hoban	Morton Arboretum	USA	Genetic Composition WG
Margaret Hunter	U.S. Geological Survey	USA	Genetic Composition WG
Walter Jetz	Yale University	USA	Species Populations WG
Jens Kattge	Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry	Germany	Species Traits WG
Anna MacDonald	Australian National University	Australia	Genetic Composition WG
Melodie McGeoch	Monash University	Australia	Species Populations WG
Robert Guralnick	University of Florida	USA	Data TF
Frank Muller-Karger	University of South Florida	USA	Marine BON
Eun-Shik Kim	Kookmin University, Seoul	South Korea	AP BON
Daniel Kissling	University of Amsterdam	The Netherlands	Coordinator GLOBIS-B, Data TF
Pedro J. Leitão	Technische Universität Braunschweig	Germany	Ecosystem Function WG
Maria Cecilia Londoño	Alexander von Humboldt Institute Colombia	Colombia	Colombia BON, BON Development WG
Ilaria Palumbo	Joint Research Centre	Italy	Ecosystem Structure WG
Isabel Sousa Pinto	University of Porto	Portugal	Marine BON
Michael Schaepman	University of Zurich	Switzerland	Coordinator BioDiscovery & GlobDiversity
Ghada El Serafy	DELTARES	Netherlands	Ecosystem Function WG, Coordinator ECOPOTENTIAL
Odirilwe Selomane	University of Stockholm	Sweden	Ecosystem Services WG
Andrew Skidmore	University of Twente	The Netherlands	Remote Sensing TF
Wilfried Thuiller	University Grenoble Alpes	France	Community Composition WG
Eren Turak	Office of Environment & Heritage	Australia	Freshwater BON
Maria Vallejos	University of Buenos Aires	Argentinia	Ecosystem Services WG
Sheila Vergara	University of the Philippines Los Baños	Philippines	AP BON
Petteri Vihervaara	Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki	Finland	BON Development WG
Diana Wall	Colorado State University	USA	Soil BON
Haigen Xu	Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences	China	China BON
Tetsukazu Yahara	Kyushu University	Japan	AP BON

Pricing

Participation to the Open Science Conference and All Hands meeting

Regular

Early Bird (until 7th June)

€50

Late Bird

€75

MSc and PhD students

Early Bird (until 7th June)

€25

Late Bird

€35

Developing countries

Early Bird (until 7th June)

€25

Late Bird

€35

Contact

For general enquiries, please use the contact address or form below

Address

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Deutscher Platz 5e
04103 Leipzig, GERMANY

Phone Number

+49 (0)341 9733141

Email

conf2020@geobon.org

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About the Conference

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Latest news

Keynote Speakers

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Conference Program

Download Program (07/07/2020): Web | Print-friendly Download Book of Abstracts | Download Presentations

Agenda

Mixer

Open Science Conference Session 1 (OSC1)

Coffee break

Open Science Conference Session 1 (OSC1)

Keynote: Policy needs

Opening

Open Science Conference Session 2 (OSC2)

Coffee break

Open Science Conference Session 2 (OSC2)

GEO BON OSC/iNaturalist Project launch

Mixer

Agenda

Mixer

Open Science Conference Session 3 (OSC3)

Coffee break

Open Science Conference Session 3 (OSC3)

Project meetings

Keynote: EBV and EESV Development

Plenary Wrap-up:

Open Science Conference Session 4 (OSC4)

Coffee break

Open Science Conference Session 4 (OSC4)

Demo of EBV Portal

Poster Session 1

Mixer

Agenda

Mixer

All Hands Meetings

Coffee break

All Hands Meetings

Project meetings

Panel Panel discussion on BON Development

Plenary Wrap-up:

All Hands Meetings

Coffee break

All Hands Meetings

Project meetings

Mixer

All Hands Meeting

Agenda

Mixer

All Hands Meetings

Coffee break

All Hands Meetings

Poster Session

Keynote EBVs and EESVs for policy

IC Meeting

All Hands Meetings

Coffee break

All Hands Meetings

Microsoft AI for Earth Presentation

Mixer

Agenda

All Hands Meetings

Coffee break

All Hands Meetings

Closing

All Hands Meetings

Coffee break

All Hands Meetings

Committees

Pricing

Regular

Early Bird (until 7th June)

€50

Late Bird

€75

MSc and PhD students

Early Bird (until 7th June)

€25

GEO BON
Open Science Conference
& All Hands Meeting 2020

Download Program (07/07/2020): Web | Print-friendly

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