GEO BON
Open Science Conference
& All Hands Meeting 2020

Agenda

Wednesday, 8th July

Mixer

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

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

Coffee break

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

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

Panel Panel discussion on BON Development

David Obura

Aletta Bonn

Haigen Xu

Maria Cecilia Londono

Tom Christensen

Luci Waruingi

Plenary Wrap-up:

OSC3 & OSC4

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

Coffee break

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

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

Mixer

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

All Hands Meeting

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

Agenda

Thursday, 9th July

Mixer

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

All Hands Meetings

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

Coffee break

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

Poster Session

Keynote EBVs and EESVs for policy

Melodie Mc Geoch

Carlo Rondinini

IC Meeting

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

Coffee break

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

Microsoft AI for Earth Presentation

Dan Morris

Mixer

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

Agenda

Friday, 10th July

All Hands Meetings

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

Coffee break

All Hands Meetings

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

Closing

Wrap up by all WGs and BONs Closing remarks

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

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

Coffee break

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