NSF Grant-Related News

• NatureServe awards a pilot project to Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center to establish Web Services for direct access to ORNHIC data – March 2006
• NSF project advisory meeting presentations and outcomes – November 2005
• NatureServe interim NSF project report (PDF) – August 2005

EPA Grant-Related News

• EPA awards grants to New York State Department of Environmental Control to implement a data exchange for the biodiversity data maintained by the New York Natural Heritage Program - August 2006. Read the full announcement for FY 2006 Exchange Network Grants (PDF).
• EPA Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program announcement – November 2005

XML Schema-Related News

• NatureServe Species Schemas version 1.0 are available - June 2007.
• NatureServe Species Occurrence Schemas version 1.0 are available - June 2007.

Conferences and Events

• View a presentation (PDF) about NatureServe Web Services from the 2005 ESRI User Conference in San Diego, CA.