Geiziane Tessarolo and colleagues win GBIF’s Ebbe Nielsen Challenge

Posted by Joaquín Hortal | Oct 5, 2022 | English, News, Português, Teaching | 0 |

The team lead by Bruno Ribeiro, integated by Geiziane, Lucas Jardim, Rafael Loyola and other colleagues from UFG and other institutions won the 2022 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge prize, for their development of bdc: A toolkit for standardizing, integrating and cleaning biodiversity data. This prize from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility awards the best applications of open access biodiversity data. The developers of bdc open source R package share the prize ex aequo with the developers of GridDER: Grid Detection and Evaluation in R.

Congratulations, Bruno, Geizi and all!

About The Author

Joaquín Hortal

I am a biogeographer with broad interests in macroecology, community ecology, island biogeography, insect ecology, evolution, and biodiversity research. My main research aim is to determine why biodiversity – and in particular community structure – is geographically distributed the way it is, and to identify the processes that domain the spatial and temporal dynamics of ecological assemblages. I work as Scientific Researcher at the Department of Biogeography and Global Change of the Natural History Museum in Madrid (MNCN), a research institute of the Spanish Scientific Council (CSIC). I am also External Professor at the Departamento de Ecologia of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in Brazil, and Associate Researcher of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Portugal.