June 2014 IC / AB Meeting GEO BON Implementation Committee and Advisory Board meeting at iDiv in Leipzig
2014 Global Ecological Land Units
August 2014 New IT Officer Christian Langer joins the GEO BON Team as IT Officer
GEO BON Working Group 3 produced a first draft map of Global Ecological Land Units (ELUs)
October 2014 New brochures
November 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress
GEO BON publishes 4 new brochures about EBVs, BON in a Box and the biodiversity observation network
GEO BON organises sessions on biodiversity monitoring as well as on freshwater biodiversity in Sydney
January 2015 RS4EBV workshop
March 2015 New GEO Science Officer
20 leading scientists from all over the world come together at iDiv to design interdisciplinary case studies aiming at a special issue on “EBVs and Remote Sensing” April 2015 New webpage Launch of the new GEO BON webpage www.geobon.org
Gary Geller moves to GEO as Science Officer and manages links between GEO BON activities and the GEO secretariat
September 2014 New Postdoc Miquel Fernandez starts his postdoc position at the GEO BON Secretariat to develop the EBV framework
December 2014 Global Butterfly Monitoring 15 international butterfly monitoring experts come together to discuss and develop a standardised set of global butterfly monitoring guidelines
March 2015 GEO BON workshop GEO BON EBV workshop: “Towards a global system for assessing, monitoring and reporting on biological invasions“ at iDiv
April 2015 IUCN workshop GEO BON participates in the 1st IUCN Red List of Ecosystems workshop in Costa Rica
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