Last chance to register!
🤔 Have questions about the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?
📅 Register to attend a Q&A session on 13 January 2026 (with two session times available to accommodate time zones) to raise any questions about the call’s scope and objectives, eligibility criteria, application process and the BID programme more broadly
📍 13 Jan 26, 09:30-10:30 & 15:30-16:30 (UTC+1)
🎯 Marine sites wanted!
Join eDNA Expeditions, an OBIS-led project mobilizing environmental DNA to support local marine biodiversity monitoring and increase global ocean knowledge.
☑️ Kits, training & support provided
✅ Don't miss the opportunity!
➡️ ednaexpeditions.org
Happy New Year from the OBIS Community 💙 We enter 2026 with a renewed strategic direction.
We co-designed four Strategic Objectives to strengthen OBIS preparedness and its support to science, policy & conservation action for a rapidly changing ocean.
As 2025 comes to an end, we celebrate the OBIS Community 🎉
The first #OBISNodesAwards honoured six Community Heroes and the OBIS Black Sea Node, recognising the dedication, collaboration, and shared commitment that drive OBIS forward, every day.
#OBISNodeSpotlight 🧊 Dive under the ice and discover how Antarctic OBIS has been connecting marine biodiversity data from the region to global science for two decades.
➡️ Read more: https://obis.org/2025/12/14/obis-antarctica/
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know that the OBIS Mapper lets you filter records by a time window of your choice, letting you build historical baselines?
You can generate a dataset to explore long-term trends and change over time.
✅ Try it! https://mapper.obis.org
OBIS joined the @gbif Technical Support Hour for a session on interoperability, data quality, & why publishing marine biodiversity data to OBIS and GBIF matters for science & policy.
👉 The main takeaway: GBIF-ready datasets are a click away from being added to OBIS!
🐿️ We've gathered the latest GBIF headlines in one place 👀
💙 See the November newsletter:🔗https://gbif.link/Nov-news
💜 Stay in the loop and receive our quarterly GBIF newsletter: https://gbif.link/subscribe
#OBISDataSuperPowers 💫 Did you know that OBIS lets you filter your data & view it in the OBIS Mapper, an interactive tool that displays your selection on a zoomable map?
You can then download the records as a CSV, ready to use 🦀 > 📌 > 💾 !
🔗 Learn how: https://manual.obis.org/access
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