Dear Colleagues, 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. General information: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2009/index.html Biodiversity Informatics Session: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/session/380 Guidance on abstract submission: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2009/abstract_management/index.html Authors are invited to submit abstracts by Tuesday 13 January 2009. 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. Convenor: Éamonn Ó Tuama; eotuama at gbif.org Co-convenor: Hannu Saarenmaa; hannu.saarenmaa at helsinki.fi Co-convenor: Jeremy Kerr; Jeremy.Kerr at uottawa.ca With regards, Éamonn Ó Tuama _______________________________________________ Éamonn Ó Tuama, Ph.D. (eotuama@gbif.org), Senior Programme Officer, Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA), Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK Phone: +45 3532 1494; Fax: +45 3532 1480