This event is part of Love Data Week, an annual festival highlighting topics, opportunities and services relevant to data in research. 

The 2025 Love Data Week BioBlitz begins with the Generating and Using Biodiversity Big Data virtual workshop where participants will learn about locating, downloading, and cleaning biodiversity data for research. Following the workshop, participants will be invited to join an asynchronous Bioblitz using the iNaturalist platform to generate biodiversity data that will be shared with the open data repository GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). Participants will learn how to search for data of interest, learn about some of the caveats of using biodiversity big data, how to clean and properly attribute data, and will also contribute data themselves by participating in a week-long Bioblitz across Stanford campuses.

Register for the virtual workshop, taking place on Monday, February 10, 1-2:30PM PT.