Nordic Oikos 2018 – workshop on GBIF data and R

Scientific reuse of openly published biodiversity information: Programmatic access to and analysis of primary biodiversity information using R. Nordic Oikos 2018, pre-conference R workshop, 18^th and 19^th February 2018 in Trondheim, Norway.

• Sunday 18 Feb 2018, 10:00 - 17:00
• Monday 19 Feb 2018, 09:00 - 16:00

Workshop sessions include:

• Session 1: Quick introduction to GBIF and biodiversity informatics
• Session 2: Quick intro to R, RStudio, GitHub
• Session 3: Download occurrence data from GBIF using rgbif
• Session 4: Download event data et al. from GBIF / IPT and retrieve associated information
• Session 5: Linking species occurrence data with environmental layers
• Session 6: Mapping species occurrences and environment layers

Venue: Auditorium DU2-150, NTNU Gløshaugen campus, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 5, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway (latitude 63.415275, longitude 10.406295).

More information is available at:

• http://www.gbif.no/events/2018/Nordic-Oikos-2018-R-workshop.html
• http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2018/GBIF_R.html
• https://www.ntnu.edu/web/oikos2018/workshops
• https://gbif-europe.github.io/nordic_oikos_2018_r

Organized by: GBIF.no - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Norway (www.GBIF.no) and ForBio Research School in Biosystematics (www.forbio.uio.no). Short description of the workshop trainers here.