iBOL News & Events
Meet Arctic BIOSCAN’s 2022 Field Technicians
This year’s Arctic BIOSCAN biodiversity monitoring activities expanded outside Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk to include Kugaaruk, Gjoa Haven, and Taloyoak. The expansion was made possible by support from Polar Knowledge Canada and the Blue Future’s Pathway program, which together enabled the hiring of a group of Nunavummiut youth to work as field technicians in four communities across Nunavut.
Webinar: Studying the Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Freshwater Biodiversity with (Meta)barcoding
BIOSCAN: Illuminating Biodiversity Webinar – Dr. Florian Leese discusses the use of innovative outdoor experiments and (meta)barcoding to investigate the effects of multiple stressors on freshwater species, communities, and ecosystem functionality.
DNA Barcoding Aquatic Life: new insights for biodiversity science
From Peruvian and Brazilian coastal wetlands, Mexican lagoons, and the Great Lakes in America to Sundaland and China, and many other places around the Pacific, a new special issue features scientific papers exploring with new insights about life under the water through DNA technologies.
Arctic BIOSCAN team prepares for a new field season in Nunavut
Arctic BIOSCAN researchers met with important partners at the Ekaluktuttiak Hunters and Trappers Organization, Kugluktuk Angoniatit Association, Nunavummiut youths sponsored by the SOI Foundation, and scientists from the Canadian High Arctic Research Station, to discuss progress, results, and plans for the 2022 field season.
Webinar: Restoring and Protecting Biodiversity in Aotearoa-New Zealand’s Lakes
BIOSCAN: Illuminating Biodiversity Webinar – Dr. Susana Wood, Senior Scientist at the Cawthron Institute in New Zealand, discusses how her research team uses DNA approaches to determine the current and historic health and biodiversity of the lakes in Aotearoa-New Zealand as part of the “Our lakes” project.
Webinar: assessing insect diversity in South Africa’s botanical gardens
BIOSCAN: Illuminating Biodiversity Webinar – Dr. Michelle van der Bank discusses the National Botanical Garden Malaise Programme project which aims to develop an inventory of all species that can be captured in Malaise traps over one year in South Africa’s National Botanical Gardens.
Webinar: New species, new barcodes, new taxonomists – the GBOL III: Dark Taxa concept
BIOSCAN: Illuminating Biodiversity Webinar – Dr. Ralph Peters discusses GBOL III: Dark Taxa, the first DNA barcoding initiative focusing solely on the unknown part of biodiversity. While the project targets Central-European fauna, its “new species, new barcodes, new taxonomists” concept can be replicated across other regions and faunae.
BIOSCAN receives $24 million to illuminate Biodiversity
Can we establish a global biosurveillance system? Can we avert a planetary mass extinction? Helping to answer these and other large-scale questions about life on Earth is the goal of BIOSCAN, a project awarded $24 million in Canadian federal funding this month.
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