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V. KarglABOL at the Long Night of Museums 202426. November, 2024 - 15:18Are names written in the genes? We pursued this question at the Long Night of Museums on Saturday, October 5, 2024, until late into the night!
Different aspects of DNA barcoding were presented by the ABOL coordination team and the central research laboratories: Visitors were welcome to try extract DNA from tomatoes live, put together a DNA alignment, and take a manual environmental DNA (eDNA) sample from a bucket of pond water, as well as try on our heavy and unwieldy outdoor backpack for eDNA sampling.… Read more
M. SonnleitnerABOL BioBlitz in the Hohen Tauern8. August, 2024 - 14:55The last ABOL BioBlitz 2024 during the Days of Biodiversity took place on the first weekend in August in the Hohe Tauern National Park. In almost traditionally bad weather, around 75 experts swarmed out to record biodiversity in the Habachtal in the Salzburg part of the Hohe Tauern National Park.… Read more
M. SonnleitnerGEO Day of Biodiversity in South Carinthia17. July, 2024 - 15:04On the first weekend in July, the ABOL-BioBlitz was a guest at the GEO Day of Biodiversity in the Geopark Karawanken, this year for the first time in southern Carinthia. After the welcome and introductory words in Bleiburg, the Globasnitzbachtal was investigated in the afternoon and evening of the first day.… Read more
ABOL at the Long Night of Museums 2024
HighlightsAre names written in the genes? We pursued this question at the Long Night of Museums on Saturday, October 5, 2024, until late into the night!
Different aspects of DNA barcoding were presented by the ABOL coordination team and the central research laboratories: Visitors were welcome to try extract DNA from tomatoes live, put together a DNA alignment, and take a manual environmental DNA (eDNA) sample from a bucket of pond water, as well as try on our heavy and unwieldy outdoor backpack for eDNA sampling.… Read more
ABOL BioBlitz in the Hohen Tauern
HighlightsThe last ABOL BioBlitz 2024 during the Days of Biodiversity took place on the first weekend in August in the Hohe Tauern National Park. In almost traditionally bad weather, around 75 experts swarmed out to record biodiversity in the Habachtal in the Salzburg part of the Hohe Tauern National Park.… Read more
GEO Day of Biodiversity in South Carinthia
ABOL BioBlitz, Citizen Science, HighlightsOn the first weekend in July, the ABOL-BioBlitz was a guest at the GEO Day of Biodiversity in the Geopark Karawanken, this year for the first time in southern Carinthia. After the welcome and introductory words in Bleiburg, the Globasnitzbachtal was investigated in the afternoon and evening of the first day.… Read more
10 years ÖEG insect camp
ABOL BioBlitz, Highlights, VeranstaltungenParallel to the Day of Biodiversity in the Biosphere Reserve Wienerwald, ABOL was represented for the third time at the ÖEG insect camp from June 6th to 9th. Like ABOL, the insect camp also celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, and this year it took place in the Karwendel Nature Reserve in Tyrol.… Read more
The first ABOL BioBlitzes 2024
ABOL BioBlitz, Citizen Science, Highlights, VeranstaltungenThanks to the Biodiversity Fund projects ABOL-RefDat and GeMonA+, our ABOL team at the Natural History Museum Vienna grew at the beginning of 2024 and the first BioBlitzes were a good opportunity to support data collection and networking in the biodiversity community.
This year’s Day of Biodiversity of the Biosphere Reserve Wienerwald took place in Vienna-Liesing, at the same time part of the ABOL team traveled to the ÖEG insect camp in the Karwendel Nature Reserve.… Read more
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ABOL PARTNERS IN GRAZ!
HighlightsWith their many ABOL activities, the Graz partners have achieved
2nd place in this year’s Silberdistel (Styria’s Biodiversity Prize)!
https://www.silberdistel.at/preistraeger-2024/ (in GERMAN only)
We are delighted and congratulate you!
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Our new project: ABOL-RefDat
Highlights, ProjectsABOL reference data (ABOL-RefDat) – call for project collaboration!
We are very pleased that the ABOL-RefDat project, funded by the Biodiversity Fund, started at the beginning of the year!
Our goal? The creation of at least 5,000 DNA barcodes for at least 1,500 Austrian species of animals, plants and fungi, as well as closing data gaps in Austria!… Read more
These were the Days of Biodiversity 2023
Highlights, Meetings, Veranstaltungen“Together on the way out of the biodiversity crisis” was the title of the Biodiversity Days 2023 from November 8th to 10th, which took place at BOKU Vienna.
In 9 sessions, different aspects of the biodiversity crisis and different actors were addressed.… Read more
DNA barcoding workshop at the University of Zambia 2.0
Highlights, Meetings, Projects, Veranstaltungen, WorkshopsDue to last year’s great success, the 2nd DNA barcoding workshop took place in September at the University of Zambia (UNZA) in the capital Lusaka.
As part of the OeAD project “Inventorying biodiversity in the tropics: Establishing a DNA-barcoding pipeline for characterizing and monitoring Zambia’s biodiversity” led by the University of Graz (Stephan Koblmüller and Lukas Zangl) and participation by ABOL and Prof.… Read more
ABOL at the Long Night of Museums
Highlights, MeetingsLast Saturday (October 7th), ABOL was represented together with the Central Research Laboratories at the Long Night of Museums in the Natural History Museum Vienna. Visitors were able to find out more about ABOL, DNA barcoding and DNA-based research in general from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.… Read more