GBIF's 2018 Young Researchers Award honours student of U. Porto for climate-driven changes investigation

The GBIF's 2018 Young Researchers' Award was granted to Raquel Gaião Silva, graduate from the Faculty of Sciences of Porto University.

This is the first time that this prize is awarded to a Portuguese student. Raquel Silva is currently pursuing a Master Degree at the University of Algarve to study the impact of climate-driven changes on the distribution of macroalgae on the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula.

The Portuguese researcher aims to use species occurrence records from the GBIF network.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility is an international network and research infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing researchers worldwide open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

Gaião is co-winner with Kate Ingenloff, a PhD candidate from the United States. They were selected from a pool of 14 candidates nominated by heads of delegation from 11 GBIF Participant countries.