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M. SonnleitnerABOL-BioBlitz at Hohe Tauern National park28. July, 2025 - 16:39Fortunately, the weather in the Hohe Tauern was kind to us this year, from July 18-20, 2025. At the National Park’s Day of Biodiversity, in the Gradental and Gartltal valleys in Carinthia, not only was the weather record-breaking, but so was the number of participating experts, with almost 100 registrations.… Read more
N. FialABOL at the ÖEG Insect Camp in the Nature Park Hohe Wand14. July, 2025 - 15:39For the fourth time (in a row), ABOL participated in the 11th ÖEG Insect Camp from June 26th to 29th with a BioBlitz. This time, the trip took us to the Hohe Wand Nature Park in Lower Austria – a biogeographically highly interesting region on the northeastern edge of the Alps, where the Pannonian and Alpine climates converge, enabling a great diversity of species.… Read more
M. SonnleitnerABOL at the Day of Biodiversity in Baden bei Wien3. July, 2025 - 13:40On June 13 and 14, 2025, the Biosphere Reserve Wienerwald organized its 20th Day of Biodiversity– this year in the Lower Austrian part of the biosphere reserve around Baden bei Wien. Around 100 experts from various disciplines explored the diverse flora, fauna, and funga of the area from the Kurpark to the Lindkogel.… Read more
ABOL meeting 2018 – Save the date!
Highlights, MeetingsDear ABOL community,
this year´s ABOL meeting will take place on 06-07 of December 2018 at the Natural History Museum Vienna. On Thursday 06 of December we want to organize a workshop on “eDNA and metabarcoding”, which is aimed at stakeholders. On Friday, scientific talks address the professional audience and the interested public.… Read more
Relaunch of the ABOL website
HighlightsReflecting the transition from the pilot phase into the Austria-wide ABOL Initiative our website now shines in a new splendor.
Our relaunch shows many running projects under the option ABOL Initiative. The assignment to organism-specific clusters is meant to ease your search for certain projects.… Read more
Radio-Beitrag über ABOL
HighlightsLiebe ABOL-Interessierte,
am Montag den 22.1. war die Sendung Dimensionen (Ö1) der ABOL-Initiative gewidmet. Unter dem Titel Inventur des Lebens beleuchtete der Beitrag von Birgit Dalheimer unter Mitwirkung von Helmut Sattmann (NHM), Elisabeth Haring (NHM), Frank Zachos (NHM), Thomas Friedrich (BOKU) und Carina Zittra (VetMed) verschiedenste Aspekte von ABOL – von der Referenzdatenbank bis zur Anwendung – in sehr anschaulicher Weise.… Read more
ABOL Meeting 2017 – takeoff into the future
Highlights, MeetingsOur this year´s annual meeting ABOL4 took place on October 20th, 2017 under a number of lucky stars! Firstly, good news from the Federal Ministry of Research, Science and Economy came just in time: The coordination of ABOL is going to be funded for the next three years!… Read more
ABOL Database Workshop
Highlights, MeetingsThe ABOL coordination team offers workshops to learn how to use the ABOL database. The workshops are designed for beginners, thus previous knowledge about the database software specify or databases in general is not required.
Details
The first ABOL database workshop took place on the 6th of November.… 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