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By sending this letter, any of the GEF focal points may endorse the proposed World Bank implemented "Building the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network Project" for US$6 million in GEF Funding, and the Organization of American States as the project's Executing Agency. To download the endorsement letter template in English click here.

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Poster on IABIN
(Created by the United States Node of IABIN)

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Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN): An Overview

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Presentations for the Bioinformatics Meeting held at the OAS Headquarters, Washington, DC (July 14, 2004)

• NBII Bird Conservation Node (561 KB)
• Paraguayan Biodiversity Informatics Project (25,516 KB)
• NBII Digital Image Library (39,795 KB)
• NBII and NatureServe A Natural Partnership (2,997 KB)
• National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII): NBII General Overview & Context (1,925 KB)
• Content Management & Integration: Leveraging NBII Standards, Tools, and Policies for IABIN (2,277 KB)
• NBII: The World Bank and the Organization of American States (1,066 KB)
• World Data Center for Biodiversity & Ecology (USGS Center for Biological Informatics) (1,197 KB)
• National Gap Analysis Program World Bank and Organization of American States Briefing (3,349 KB)
• NBII Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Node: FISHBASE-FAR-IABIN Project FY03 (885 KB)

Other Presentations

Any or all of these slides may be copied for the purpose of introducing an audience to IABIN. Please acknowledge the Biological Informatics Office (BIO) of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Presentation at the Joint International Forum on Biodiversity Information, Tsukuba, Japan, (10/03, .ppt, 7.9 MB)

Presentation on IABIN at NatureServe conference (6/03, .ppt, 3.5 MB)

Presentation on IABIN at Earth Summit (7/02, .ppt, 544 KB)

Presentation on I3N for Biodiversity Informatics Symposium, Indaiatuba, (10/02, .ppt, 9.6 MB)

Presentation on I3N for Biodiversity Information Table at VII Trilateral Committee meeting, Puerto Vallarta, (04/02, .ppt, 831 KB)

Presentation on I3N for GISP meeting in Northern Baltic, Tallinn, (05/02, .ppt, 246.50 KB)

Presentation on I3N for IABIN Second Council meeting, Miami, (01/02, .ppt, 1.2 MB)

General Overview of I3N (04/02, .ppt, 832 KB)

Presentation on I3N for GISP meeting in South America, Brazil, Brasilia, (10/01, 1.6 MB)

Presentation on Challenges for IABIN (06/02, NSCA meeting, 2.7 MB)

Presentation on History of IABIN (05/01; 665 KB)

Update, GEF grant (04/02, Trilateral Committee meeting; 2.2 MB)