REGISTER NOWabstract submission deadline:14 February 2014http://www.scar2014.com/call-for-abstracts/Convenors:Prof. Alison Murray, DRI, USAProf. Nils Chr. Stenseth, University of Oslo, NorwayDr. Ian Hawes, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Author: antonarctica
mARS 2013 workshop
The mARS (Microbial Antarctic Resource System) workshop was organised in Brussels, BELGIUM, and was hosted by the Marine Biology lab at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).You can download the report here.
mARS White Paper
Creating the Microbial Antarctic Resource SystemDr. Alison Murray, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research InstituteDr. Bruno Danis, Marine Biology Lab, Université Libre de BruxellesDr. Anton Van de Putte, biodiversity.aq, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural SciencesDraft version 0.3 (July 2013)Capturing commentsWe are now welcoming comments on this White Paper in order to to give … Continue reading mARS White Paper
Open Data Handbook
An interesting read for those interested in open data. The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open data and open content in all their forms – including government data, publicly funded research and public domain cultural content. They published a handbook on open data that "introduces … Continue reading Open Data Handbook
mARS and chocolates
Another mARS meeting took place in Brussels, to wrapup the White Paper on mARS and start collecting feedback from the community before the project is validated and starts building the initial content. We would like the process to be transparent and participative, so we are now welcoming comments on the White Paper, through a dedicated … Continue reading mARS and chocolates
About this Blog
This Blog is intended to be a place for reflection on the setup and deployment of the new Microbial Antarctic Resources System (mARS). mARS is devoted to respond to the urgent need expressed by the Antarctic microbial research community to be able to discover and access existing data and to agree on operating procedures and … Continue reading About this Blog
Biodiversity.aq statistics part I: Facebook
Biodiversity.aq statistics part I: Facebook With biodiversity.aq we try to be active on different social media platforms as one of the channels to communicate with target audiences. In this way we do not only provide Free and #openaccessto #Antarctic#biodiversitydata but also to the people behind the project J. Our public online library on Mendeley allows … Continue reading Biodiversity.aq statistics part I: Facebook
