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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
N. Fial10 years ÖEG insect camp17. July, 2024 - 11:09Parallel 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
ABOL meeting – final agenda
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL friends and colleagues interested in biodiversity,
the ABOL meeting will take place in two weeks! With pleasure we announce the final program.
Some changes concerning the speakers had to be made. Unfortunately, Paul Hebert had to cancel his attendance. But, we are happy to welcome Sujeevan Ratnasingham (Univ.… Read more
ABOL meeting 2017 – preliminary agenda
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community & all interested people,
the preliminary program of the this year´s ABOL meeting is now available and can be downloaded here: program-abol-meeting2017
The meeting takes place on 20th of October 2017 at the Natural History Museum of Vienna.
We are happy to announce a keynote-lecture of Prof.… Read more
ABOL meeting – held on 20th of October 2017 only
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community & all interested people,
to avoid synchrony with the ÖEG Fachgespräche (October 21st, 2017, BOKU) the ABOL meeting will take place on October 20th, 2017 from 9:00 to ca. 20:00.
We will start with talks, a panel discussion and a poster session.… Read more
ABOL meeting 2017 – reminder
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community & all interested people,
we would like to remind you that this years´ABOL meeting takes place on 20th and 21st of October in the Natural History Museum Vienna. We will look back at the past 3 years of the initial phase and especially look forward to the future of the ABOL-Initiative.… Read more
One day meeting in Edinburgh (UK) on “DNA Sequencing Natural History Specimens Using New Sequencing Platforms and Protocols”
Highlights, MeetingsDear all
Pete Hollingworth of the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh is organizing a Meeting on “Sequencing Natural History specimens using NGS”.
It will take place on Tuesday 11th July 2017 with many reknown speakers from various DNA-Barcoding initiatives.
The Meeting is free – registrition is open till 05th of July.… Read more
ABOL HRSM-Artikel in der Unizeit (Uni Graz) und im Webradio
HighlightsZum Hochschulraumstrukturmittel (HRSM) Projekt “Aufbau von universitären DNA-Barcoding-Pipelines für ABOL” ist ein Artikel in der Unizeit, dem Forschungsmagazin der Uni Graz, erschienen. Zu lesen unter diesem Link.
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ABOL meeting 2017 – Save the date!
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community,
this year´s ABOL meeting will take place on 20th and 21st of October 2017 at the Natural History Museum Vienna. The meeting marks the transition from the pilot phase to the overall project.
Please save the date! Further information will be given in time.… Read more
ABOL goes facebook
HighlightsFor all of you who are familiar with social media, we recently initiated a facebook page for ABOL!
https://www.facebook.com/AustrianBarcodeOfLife/
We cordially invite you to contribute and comment frequently. We aim at announcing news about ABOL, along with other postings of general relevance for biodiversity.
Enjoy our page!… Read more
HRSM project start on March 1st 2017
Highlights, ProjectsWith March 1st the HRSM (Hochschulraumstrukturmittel) project has been launched. The project is funded with 1 Million Euro by the Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and aims at developing DNA barcoding pipelines for ABOL at universities. Commendably, the University of Graz has taken the leadership.… Read more
Butterflies: leading role in ABOL extended
HighlightsDear ABOL community,
it is about time, to announce many new projects which have been launched recently!
In butterflies, the showcase group of ABOL, four new projects have been initiated. Two of them, “Butterflies of Vorarlberg” and “Nocturnal butterflies of the Koblacher Ried” address the lepidopteran fauna of the most western Austrian province, Vorarlberg.… Read more