GBIF and Christiania

A great day mixing business and pleasure.  Ingrid and Eli climbed the crazy spiral tower of Vor Frelsers Kirke while Greg checked out birds in a nearby Stadsgraven park, then we all strolled through the "hippie city" of Christiania.   Christiania was a great follow-on to the morning's discussions about Animal Farm, which Eli just finished reading. 

Eli with a sperm whale heart

We had lunch with colleagues Dmitry Schigel and Olaf Bánki from GBIF.  Then Eli went to explore the Natural History Museum with a couple GBIF staff kids while Ingrid and Greg talked fungi, wood decay, and tree diversity with Dmitry and Olaf.   Great connections over the best way to collect sawdust for Illumina sequencing and the relative merits of flat files and relational databases for broad-based access to project-based biodiversity data. 


After lunch we went to the Glyptoteket museum to see some great Rodin and Degás sculptures, as well as as a lot of great Danish works.














By the end of the day we were tired from 14 km of walking, and opted not to go to the open-air Snoop Dogg concert at Tivoli and instead bussed home.  We are hoping to see the hedgehog that supposedly lives right outside our back door tonight.