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A Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies sponsored research program

The Yale Biodiversity and Global Change (BGC) Center is an interdisciplinary hub for research and education. Its activities and events link scientists, students, and practitioners – at Yale and beyond – who are engaged in the environmental, biological, informatics, policy, or health aspects and implications of global biodiversity change. The Center is sponsored by the Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies (YIBS).

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Space-based tracker to give scientists a beyond-bird’s-eye-view of wildlife

Event Date:
Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 12:00pm
The International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space, or ICARUS, will be flying closer to the sun than ever when a pair of Russian cosmonauts installs the antennae...

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Max Planck-Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change launched

On May 2, Yale launched the Max Planck–Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change with a daylong symposium. The center, a partnership with the Max Planck Society...

Mark Costello Seminar: Discovering global biodiversity: species richness, latitude, depth, and endemicity.

This talk will show how the emergence of world biodiversity databases has led to new insights into how many species exist on Earth and spatial patterns of species richness...

2-day workshop at Yale: Linking biodiversity sensors with data and models to predict global biodiversity change

On May 3-4, Yale hosted a 2-day workshop with the goal of linking biodiversity sensors with data and models to predict global biodiversity change. This workshop brought...
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