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September 20, 2023
“How do you name a species?” seems like a simple enough question – that animal is an African bush elephant, Loxodonta africana, done and done. But what do you do when a...
A bird with a light brown back and wings and yellow underbelly standing on a roof.
August 25, 2023
The COVID-19 lockdowns that shut down much of the human world in 2020 were an uncertain and frightening time for many of us, but for BGC PhD student Diego Ellis Soto and...
Two people standing side by side against a leafy background. The person in front wears a VR goggle headset and is operating a controller while the person in the back holds a cell phone connected via a cable to the goggles headset.
July 24, 2023
It was a whirlwind of a week full of tweaking and fine-tuning for the Map of Life Rapid Assessments team during the XPRIZE Rainforest Semifinals competition. Backed by a...
June 21, 2023
In a new paper published in a special issue on detecting and attributing the causes of biodiversity change of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Ruth...
April 6, 2023
BGC members co-authored an article for Esri’s ArcNews Spring Newsletter titled “There’s Hope for Achieving New Biodiversity Targets.” In this article, which is...
Grizzly bear standing in a shallow river. The animal is looking past the camera and wear a radio collar around its neck.
January 31, 2023
In Italy, a herd of sheep predicts impending earthquakes. In the Bahamas, a school of tiger sharks discovers the world’s largest seagrass ecosystem. In the U.S., a flock of...
January 26, 2023
Movin’ and poopin’ are two things often on Diego Ellis Soto’s mind – the movin’ and poopin’ of animals, that is.                                                          ...