February 2010: Madagascar Threatened Plants Project

Training course provisionally booked February 2010 with the Madagascar Threatened Plants Project, RBG Kew.

 

October to December 2009: University of Campinas, Brazil

Development of BRAHMS to facilitate data capture and subsequent publication of various floras in Brazil. In collaboration with the Dept. of Botany, University of Campinas. Sponsored by FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo).

 

November 6 2009: Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro

Current developments with BRAHMS including Client-Server implementation. Presentation at the Herbarium of Rio de Janeiro Botanic Gardens.

 

August 2009: Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology

17 - 22 August 2009. BRAHMS herbarium curation course. VNM Herbarium, Hochiminh City, Vietnam. Institute of Tropical Biology (Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology). Sponsored by L'Institut de recherché pour le développement (IRD).

 

July 2009: Conservation of endangered coastal biodiversity hotspots of Central Chile

27 July to 7 August. BRAHMS training held in Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford. Specimen and image management + biodiversity analysis. Funded from Darwin Initiative project 'Conservation of endangered coastal biodiversity hotspots of Central Chile'.

 

June 2009: BRAHMS upgraded to Version 6.5

25 June. BRAHMS upgrade to Version 6.5. Upgrade notes are provided in help file.

 

June 2009: Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

1 June - 5 June 2009. Plant E-taxonomy in South Africa. BRAHMS course held at the Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Cape Town. Sponsored by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI).

 

May 2009: National Herbarium, Pretoria, South Africa

26 May - 29 May 2009. Plant E-taxonomy in South Africa. BRAHMS course held at the National Herbarium, Pretoria. Sponsored by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI).

 

May 2009: Rescue and Integration of Botanical Data in the Southwestern Amazon

10 - 14 May 2009. BRAHMS training course and review of BOL online network. Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil. Rescue and Integration of Botanical Data for Conservation in the Southwestern Amazon. Together with New York Botanic Garden. Sponsored by the J.R.S Biodiversity Foundation.

 

March 2009: Flora of Peninsular Malaysia

16 - 20 March 2009. Advanced BRAHMS training course. Tropical Forest Biodiversity Centre (TFBC), FRIM, Malaysia. Sponsored by the Flora of Peninsular Malaysia project.

 

March 2009: Ghana Biodiversity Informatics Project

2 - 6 March 2009. BRAHMS training course. Ghana Biodiversity Informatics Project, Accra, Ghana. Sponsored by the J.R.S Biodiversity Foundation.

 

February 2009: Tbilisi Botanical Garden and Institute of Botany

9 - 13 February 2009. BRAHMS training course with emphasis on seed bank management. Tbilisi Botanical Garden and Institute of Botany, Tbilisi, Georgia. Sponsored by RBG Kew.

 

November 2008: DNA module for BRAHMS

20 - 21 November 2008. Development of a DNA module for BRAHMS. Discussion workshop funded by EDIT project - European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy. Coordinated by Denis Filer, Held at Plant Sciences, University of Oxford with representatives from Kew and Oxford (UK); Leiden (Netherlands); and Uppsala (Sweden).