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Convergent Research Themes
Proof of Concept - 2025
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BON in a Box
Overview: BON in a Box (), developed by the GEO BON secretariat hosted in the Department of Biology, º«¹úÂãÎè, is a web-based analytical tool for analyzing and summarizing biodiversity data in a standardized, scientifically robust, and user-friendly way to better understand the status and trends of the earth’s biodiversity. This collaborative, community-contributed, fully open and operationally transparent tool is intended to help countries and organizations track progress towards the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
BON in a Box is currently available as a prototype that can be installed on local computers or servers,
with a number of operational pipelines to analyze biodiversity data. To foster collaboration and increase the use of the tool by countries reporting to the UN agreement, we will use the Convergent Research Themes award to make the platform more user friendly and connect it with high performance computing clusters that will allow for larger and more complex analyses.
Core Team:
Jory Griffith
GEO BON
Andrew Gonzalez
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Jean-Michel Lord
GEO BON
Guillaume Larocque
Research Professional QCBS
Isaac Eckert
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Laura Pollock
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Dr. Kevin Winner
Yale Center of Biodiversity and Global Change
Aboubacar Samoura
General Director of the Guinean Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
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