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Barnstable/Yarmouth, Massachusetts Area, ø United States
Occupation
Manager, Dept. of Marine Resources, Marine Biological Laboratory
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Technology / Software / Internet
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code.google.com/p/gbif-ecat/
About
My professional focus has been in biodiversity informatics and more specifically on the development of global biodiversity data networks and services. I have been involved in efforts to develop a comprehensive catalogue of all species and the names that go with them. Names link information about species to our understanding of the worlds biodiversity. A comprehensive taxonomic thesaurus is critical to supporting access to information about species and I've been involved in the development of taxonomic name services to support this.
I am additionally a passionate naturalist with broad interests in all life but a personal focus on the marine biodiversity of my native Cape Cod. I am ded...
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taxonomy
species
biology
global biodiversity information facility
tdwg
nomenclature
marine
conservation
species distribution
encyclopedia of life
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literature
bhl
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