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<p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>You are invited to submit an abstract for the
“Biodiversity Informatics” session in the forthcoming Earth and
Space Sciences Informatics programme of the European Geosciences Union General
Assembly to be held in Vienna, 19-24 April 2009. The main objective of this
session is to highlight the value of adopting informatics standards for both
Biodiversity and Earth and Space Science disciplines thereby promoting
interoperability across heterogeneous systems and, in particular, demonstrating
how the kinds of observational data mobilised by the Global Biodiversity
Information Facility network can be integrated with other geospatial data to
address issues relating to climate change, protected area management, invasive
species, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>General information: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2009/index.html<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Biodiversity Informatics Session: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/session/380<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Guidance on abstract submission: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2009/abstract_management/index.html<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Authors are invited to submit abstracts by Tuesday 13
January 2009. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact
me or one of the co-convenors of the session, and please feel free to forward
this message to others who may be interested.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Convenor: Éamonn Ó Tuama; eotuama at gbif.org<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Co-convenor: Hannu Saarenmaa; hannu.saarenmaa at helsinki.fi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Co-convenor: Jeremy Kerr; Jeremy.Kerr at uottawa.ca<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>With regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Éamonn Ó Tuama<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Éamonn Ó Tuama, Ph.D. (<a
href="mailto:eotuama@gbif.org">eotuama@gbif.org</a>), <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Senior Programme Officer,
Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA), <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Global Biodiversity
Information</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Facility Secretariat, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Universitetsparken 15,
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Phone: +45 3532 1494; Fax: +45 3532
1480</span><span lang=EN-IE><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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