Plants for the People

Breakout Discussion

21-22 February, 2005
Washington, D.C.

Organized by the
National Biological Information Infrastructure,
Smithsonian Institution,
and
Discover Life

Rhamnus frangula, Glossy Buckthorn
Rhamnus frangula
Illustration by Cheryl Reese, 2004
Last updated: 19 February, 2005


Overview

Given our success at having multiple institutions and individuals work together to put informations about ants rapidly on-line, a group of us have decided to start a large project to do the same for plants. Our minimum 1-year goal is to put checklists and images on Discover Life for 10,000 species of North American wildflowers and woody plants.

Our discussion will address how best to do this. It will also address how much more should we do in the next year?


Questions

For technical details and links to the checklists, images, guides, and maps please see


Organizers
Under revision, pending response

Name Institution E-mailPhone ExpertiseReferred by Confirmed
Sandy Andelman National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis andelman@nceas.ucsb.edu805-892-2505


Mary Ball Carson Newman College mball@cn.edu865-471-3254

Yes
Tom Garnett Smithsonian Institution GarnettT@si.edu202-633-2238


Ian Giddy New York University ian.giddy@nyu.edu212-998-0426


Steve Hubbell University of Georgia shubbell@plantbio.uga.edu706-583-0393


Patricia Koleff CONABIO pkoleff@xolo.conabio.gob.mx525-55-528-9101


Chris Lyal Natural History Museum, London c.lyal@nhm.ac.uk



Chuck Lydeard National Science Foundation clydeard@nsf.gov703-292-7142


Erick Mata Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Costa Rica emata@inbio.ac.cr



Bob Magill Missouri Botanical Garden magill@mobot.org314-577-5161

Yes
Laura Meyerson Heinz Center meyerson@heinzctr.org202-737-6307


Tom Moritz American Museum of Natural History tmoritz@amnh.org212-769-5417


Neil Patterson Neil Patterson Productions napatterson@mindspring.com919-933-1195


John Pickering University of Georgia pick@discoverlife.org706-542-1115

Yes
Pat Raven Missouri Botanical Garden pat.raven@mobot.org314-577-9595

Yes
Lucy Rogo BioNET International l.rogo@bionet-intl.org571-239-8798


Gary Rosenberg Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia rosenberg@acnatsci.org215-299-1033


Rusty Russell Smithsonian Institution russellr@si.edu202-633-0943

Yes
Annie Simpson USGS-NBII asimpson@usgs.gov703-648-4281


Jorge Soberon CONABIO jsoberon@xolo.conabio.gob.mx525-55-528-9101


Mike Soukup US National Park Service Mike_Soukup@nps.gov202-208-3884


Barbara Thiers New York Botanical Garden bthiers@nybg.org718-817-8622

Yes
Gayle Tonkovich Field Museum gtonkovich@fmnh.org312-665-7429

Yes
Melissa Tulig New York Botanical Garden mtulig@nybg.org718-817-8740

Yes
Heike Vibrans Colegio de Postgraduados en Ciencias Agricolas Museum heike@colpos.mx52 (595) 95 20 200 ext 1335 Wildflowers; Mexico

Matt von Konrat Field Museum mvonkonrat@fieldmuseum.org312-665-7864 Liverworts; World

Peter White North Carolina Botanical Garden pswhite@unc.edu919-962-6939

Yes
George Yatskievych Missouri Botanical Garden george.yatskievych@mobot.org314-577-9522


Kay Yatskievych Missouri Botanical Garden kay.yatskievych@mobot.org314-577-9524 Wildflowers; Indiana, USA
Yes

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