There is an excellent initiative from The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Finnish Biodiversity and the Biodiversity Data Journal to waive publication fees for papers outlining biodiversity records from Russia.
The MOOD spatial data website is now up and running and MOOD partners are supporting the efforts researching the nCoV-2019 Corona virus outbreak in Wuhan province and beyond.
Please be notified that multiple Midge models are now available to PALE-Blu partners to download. The summary document outlining all the models including jpgs are available to registered members of the site. Models are available on request.
The summary document can be downloaded by registered users at http://www.palebludata.com/?q=data from the following directory: PALE-Blu Data / PB Species Distribution
Our 2018 annual co-ordination meeting will be held in Rabat, Morocco on the 19th and 20th of September 2018. Our partner/hosts in Rabat will be Pr. Ouafaa fassi Fihri and Pr. Thomas Balenghien.
More details to follow...
We look forward to seeing our project partners there!
Our project website can be found at www.paleblu.eu. The website provides more detailed information on the project and its aims and objectives. Its project partners, how the project is structured and further information on the bluetongue virus and the control and prevention strategies currently used.
To keep up to date with the project please check back often and follow the project twitter feed https://twitter.com/PALEBluH2020
The PALE-Blu Kick-off meeting presentations are now available to download to PALE-Blu partners.
They can be downloaded from http://www.palebludata.com/?q=data in the following directory PALE-Blu Data > PALE-Blu Meetings > PALE-Blu Kick-off meeting 09/2017.
The PALE-Blu Kick-off meeting is planned for the 5-6th September. It will be hosted by our partners at the University of Glasgow.
The meeting will brings together European institutes with expertise in Bluetongue viruses (BTV) research and diagnosis, with partners in endemic regions (Africa, the Middle East and Turkey) that act as a ‘source’ for BTV strains that emerge in Europe. The partners will be discussing the current state of play and plans for the upcoming three years for the project.
Our VMerge partners at the FAO in Rome are maintaining a Rift Valley fever (RVF) mapping tool. This is a regularly updated spreadsheet of past and present projects with a focus on RVF and its associated vectors. The obective of the tool as stated by its authors are: