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Leslie is the the lead coordinator between all the network partners. Leslie's background is in butterfly ecology and her interests are in using butterfly data to understand how ecological communities respond to climate and land-use change. |
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Doug is the lead of the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network and is also the lead coordinator between the transect-based programs that are part of this network. Doug has been instrumental in helping many of the new transect programs get off the ground. |
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Jeff is the president of the North American Butterfly Association, which he formed in 1992. Jeff has written several guide books for North American butterflies, including starting the "through binoculars" series that has revolutionized the way people learn about and experience butterflies and other insects in nature. |
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Karen has been studying monarchs since 1984. She is an Associate Professor of Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at University of Minnesota. She is the director of the Monarch Lab which runs the Monarch Larvae Monitoring Project and also Monarchs in the Classroom. She is also a founding member of MonarchNet. |
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Paul Allen was the leader of the Avian Knowledge Network at the Cornell Lab, a project that offers access to multiple large-scale bird data sets. Paul is an advisor on our project and brings years of experience on how to develop data systems for managment and access for citizen-science data. |
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Greg is a researcher who has worked extensively on both movement and climate ecology. He has used the Massachussets data to do an extensive analysis on the impacts of climate on the butterfly community. Greg used data extracted from the Massachussets list-serve, another potential wide-spread data source. |
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Nathan is the coordinator of the Iowa Butterfly Monitoring Network... |
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Astrid is a research associate at Defenders of Wildlife and is bringing a focus on invertebrate conservation and climate to the organization. |
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Jaret is an assistant professor of Entomology and coordinates the Florida Butterfly Monitoring Network. |
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Mikaela is new at the Kalamazoo Nature Center and is taking over the Michigan Butterfly Monitoring Network. |
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Joseph is the director of Cyberinfrastructure at SESYNC and is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a Research Professor in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) at the University of Maryland. |
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Kelly helps run the website butterfliesandmoths.org which is the group that is helping us develop a data entry system for the transect programs |
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Steve is working to set up a new butterfly monitoring network in Tennessee - and perhaps coordinate with groups in the Carolinas for a larger montoring network in the Southeast. Steve is also coordinating our effort to catalog and standardize our protocols. |
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Sarah is exploring the possibility of setting up a new butterfly monitoring network in the Pacific Northwest. |
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Lea is exploring the possibility of setting up a new butterfly monitoring network in the Northeast. |
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Thomas does all the programming for the website butterfliesandmoths.org which is the group that is helping us develop a data entry system for the transect programs. |
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Cyndy is in charge of species pages at Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). We are working with EOL to host some of the information resources we develop (e.g., life history and photographs) and also may provide an outlet for some of the data that we gather. |
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Guy is one of the coordinators of the Israeli Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. As a researcher at the Helmholz Center in Leipzig, Germany, he has also spear-headed an effort to develop a network of European butterfly monitoring schemes. This effort has resulted in a working group of butterfly monitoring networks throughout the world that will include several meetings in Paris over the next 2 years. Guy is our link to European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme and is helping standardize our protocols as much as possible to align with European methods. |
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Regina is in charge of the butterfly monitoring project at North Cascades National Park. |
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Rick is in charge of data management for the Ohio Lepidopterists Butterfly Monitoring Network. |
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Jane is the vice-president of the North American Butterfly Association. |
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| Lori Scott (Lori_Scott "at" natureserve.org) |
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Lori is the Chief Information Officer of NatureServe. NatureServe is helping us to develop our data standards and planning for our data infrastructure so we can make sure we are meeting standards for storing and sharing biodiversity data and also will be able to easily transfer data tools to other groups. |
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Matt is one of the founders of RedShift Technologies, a data systems development shop in New York. RedShift has already done much of the development for NABA's various data programs and will be the key developer for our project to build a tool for sharing and visualizing NABA's count data. |
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| Mike Smorul (msmorul "at" sesync.org) |
| SESYNC, Socio-environmental Synthesis Center |
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Mike is the computing manager at SESYNC and is helping to support our efforts to build this network. |
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Jim is in charge of data management at NABA. |
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| Robert Stevenson (robert.stevenson "at" umb.edu) |
| UMass-Boston |
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Robert is a professor of biology at UMass-Boston. He has been involved in informatics, especially the development of electronic field guides for many years. He is advising our group on the best informatics approaches for developing our data systems and tools for volunteer data collectors. |
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Sharon is one of the coordinators of the Massachussets Butterfly Club. |
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David was the database and web designer for Art's butterfly web site. David is currently working at the UC-Davis Information Center for the Environment and is not only our link to Art's butterfly project, but also uses his strong background in database and web development to advise us as we work to develop our data management and visualization systems. |
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Jerome is in charge of the Ohio Lepidopterists Butterfly Monitoring Network. |
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Karen is one of the lead coordinators for the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network. Working with Doug, she also launched the Michigan Butterfly Network which is now managed by Mikaela Howie. |
