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2nd Marine Biodiversity Workshop: From the Sea to the Cloud

Held in Mexico in 2019, this second workshop continued the development of a community of practice dedicated to understanding change in marine biodiversity and generating knowledge and products that inform conservation and management strategies of marine living resources by engaging researchers, managers and policy-makers with interest in biodiversity monitoring and data synthesis and analysis. https://marinebon.github.io/p2p-mexico-workshop/

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Biodiversity Monitoring Best Practices

Join U.S. Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) partners as they deliver insightful discussions on how to conserve biodiversity and work toward global best practices for biodiversity monitoring and data sharing. Read more here.

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Terceira Island Workshop 2025

**Workshop: Enhancing marine biodiversity data collection and publishing** **Date:** 10 – 14 November 2025 **Location:** Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal. **Instructors:** Carolina Peralta, Tylar Murray, Nuno Álvaro, Jacqueline Dearborn The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) and the AIR Centre will host a small, hands-on, interactive workshop focused on mobilising marine biological observation datasets to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS). The objective is to help data holders understand the value of following good practices for standardising biological data, using widely accepted biodiversity standards like Darwin Core.

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