GBIF Young Researcher Award
The Young Researchers Award (YRA) in an annual award aimed at graduate
students in a masters or doctoral programme at universities in countries
participating in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
network.
The main objective of the award is to foster innovative research and
discovery in biodiversity informatics. The award has been put in place
to stimulate use of GBIF enabled data by graduate students developing
new research in biodiversity informatics and also to serve as an
outreach mechanism to universities.
Please notice that all nominations for the award cannot be sent directly
to GBIF, All nominations are to be sent to the GBIF Secretariat by the
national Heads of Delegation. Se call for nomination for more information.
For further details, please download the full call for proposals
<http://links.gbif.org/yra_2012>.
http://www.gbif.org/communications/news-and-events/showsingle/article/call-for-proposals-for-the-2012-young-researchers-award/
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Ebbe Nielsen Prize
The Ebbe Nielsen Prize was established by the GBIF Governing Board to
honour the memory of Dr Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen, who was an inspirational
leader in the fields of biosystematics and biodiveristy informatics.
The prize is awarded annually to a promising researcher, usually in the
early stages of his/her career, who is combining biosystematics and
biodiversity informatics research in an exciting and novel way.
The nominations are submitted by GBIF Participants to the GBIF Science
Committe which decides upon the recipient. The prize is awarded each
year at the GBIF Governing Board meeting. The prize consists of 30,000
Euro to be used by the recipient to furhter his/her research.
For further details, please download the full call for nominations
<http://links.gbif.org/_2012>.
http://www.gbif.org/communications/news-and-events/showsingle/article/call-for-nominations-for-the-2012-ebbe-nielsen-prize/
Angel Hjarding
Scientific Research Assistant
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat (GBIF)
Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
http://www.gbif.org
