Posts tagged with "Kenya"
Njeri Murage joined the OBIS secretariat to support the development of geospatial information.
We welcome Ms Njeri Murage (Kenyan) as a new intern at the OBIS secretariat in Oostende. She support us with the further development of the PostGIS database and GeoServer to store and provide access to spatial information, including area shapes and biodiversity indicators.
Kenya joins the OBIS network
The Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) joined the OBIS network as the national OBIS node in Kenya.
African OBIS training course, 12-16 February, 2018 at KMFRI, Mombasa, Kenya
19 scientists and data managers from 8 African countries (Comoros, Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria and Tanzania) participated in the OBIS training course, 12-16 February 2018, hosted by the OceanTeacher regional training centre at the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) in collaboration with the European OBIS node (hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute, VLIZ, Belgium). The training course will help the region in publishing and accessing marine biodiversity data through the OBIS data platform. All the training materials are available on the OceanTeacher website.