Curriculum Vitae for
Dr. Robert Penn Guralnick

CURRENT POSITION

Curator of Biodiversity Informatics, Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History

Office:  358 Dickinson Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611
Labs: 359, 288-289 Dickinson Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611

Website: http://sites.google.com/site/robgur/

  • Bachelor of Arts with high honors, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. (1992)

    Ph.D. Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley (Fall 1999), Major Advisor: David Lindberg

    Post-doctoral Student, Univ. of California Museum of Paleontology (Fall 1999-Summer 2000)

    Assistant Professor and Curator of Invertebrates (Fall 2000- Spring 2007)

    Associate Professor (Summer 2007-2014), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept.

    Curator of Zoology, Invertebrates, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (2000-2014)

    Associate Curator of Biodiversity Informatics, University of Florida (2015-present)

    Curator of Biodiversity Informatics, University of Florida (Aug 2019-present)

  • 2024

    • Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: DI-ODE: Digital Integration for Odonates. NSF CSBR $279,684 to UF. Target start date: 6/2024.

    2023

    • PI. DRPD-ROSF2023: Advancing arbovirus surveillance and prediction through deep learning and stakeholder knowledge. UF Research Opportunity Fund. $100,000. Start date: 6/1/2023

    • Co-I. Pending. Iterative near-term forecasting for zoonotic arbovirus systems. NIH R21. $358,000 to UF. Start date: 4/01/2024

    • Co-PI. Pending. Collaborative Research: MRA: Predicting zoonotic arbovirus spillover by linking cross-scale host and vector phenology and demography. $986,193 to UF. Start date: 07/01/24.

    • Collaborative PI. Pending. Collaborative Research: USA National Phenology Network 2.0: Reimagining how we experience the signs of the seasons. $268,421 to UF, Start date: 07/01/2024

    • Co-PI. Recommended. BII: Polyploidy: Integration Across Scales and Biological Systems. NSF BII. $12,498,656 to UF. Target date: 9/1/2023

    • Collaborative Co-PI. BoCP-Implementation: Integrating Traits, Phylogenies and Distributional Data to Forecast Risks and Resilience of North American Plants. $799,458 to UF. Start date: 9/1/2023. 

    • Collaborative PI. Collaborative Research: Assessing drivers of the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis at continental scales. NSF INTBIO. $191,373 to UF. Target date: 9/1/2023.

    2022    

    • Collaborative-PI. Collaborative Research: Phenobase: Community, infrastructure, and data for global-scale analyses of plant phenology. NSF CIBR. $292,819 to UF. Start date: 9/1/2022.

    • Collaborative PI. Collaborative Research: Ranges: Building Capacity to Extend Mammal Specimens from Western North America. $256,000 to UF. Start date: 4/01/2023.

    • Co-PI. Land, Water, and Settlement at Motul de San Jose, Peten Guatemala: LiDAR + AI to study deep time perspectives on coupled natural and human systems. UFII Seed Grant, $26,000. Start date: 4/1/2022

    • Co-PI. Taking species distribution models to the next dimension for mapping mosquito risk. UFII Seed Grant, $20,000. Start date: 4/01/2022.

    2021

    • Collaborative PI. Collaborative Research: CIBR: Leaping the Specimen Digitization Gap: Connecting Novel Tools, Machine Learning and Public Participation to Label Digitization Efforts. NSF CIBR, $292,000 to UF, 1/1/2021-12/31/24.

    • Collaborative PI.b Collaborative Research: LightningBug, An Integrated Pipeline to Overcome The Biodiversity Digitization Gap. $84,226 to UF. Target dates: 6/1/20-5/31/23. 

    • Collaborative PI. Collaborative Research: Origins and drivers of extinction of Caribbean Avifauna. NSF DEB, $278,919 to UF, 01/01/2021-12/31/2024.

    2020 

    • Collaborative PI. Collaborative Research: Genealogy of Odonata (GEODE): Dispersal and color as drivers of 300 million years of global dragonfly evolution. $233,438. To UF. Target dates: 4/1/2020-9/30/2023.

    • Collaborative PI. Bridging the Interdisciplinary Divide: Florida Mosquito Control District Surveillance Data for Downstream Biodiversity Research. UFBI seed grant. $30,000. Target dates: 10/1/20-12/31/21. 

    • PI. llluminating nitrogen-fixation in plants using isotopic data from herbarium collections. UFBI seed grant. $35,000. Target dates: 10/1/20-12/31/21.

    • Co-PI. UF Catalyst Fund. Using AI to uncover decades of global ecological change. Start date 12/15/2020, $50K

    2019 

    • Co-PI. Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: Digitizing collections to trace parasite-host associations and predict the spread of vector-borne disease. NSF ADBC. $21,428 to UF. 07/01/2019-6/30/2022.

    • Co-PI. CSBR: Curating the Early Anthropocene Record of circum-Caribbean Animal Biodiversity in the Florida Museum of Natural History. $763,978 to UF. Target dates: 10/1/2019-9/30/2022.

    • Florida PI. Origins and impacts of nitrogen-fixing symbioses in a major clade of flowering plants. NSF DEB Systematics and Biodiversity Cluster. $313,000 to UF. 01/01/2020-12/31/2022. 

    • Collaborative PI. IIBR RoL: Collaborative Research: A Rules Of Life Engine (RoLE) Model to Uncover Fundamental Processes Governing Biodiversity. $340,212 to UF. Target dates: 10/01/2019-9/30/2022.

    • Senior Personnel. Digitization TCN: Collaborative: American Crossroads: Digitizing the vascular flora of the south-central United States. NSF ADBC, $27,082 to UF.07/01/2019-6/30/2023. 

    • Co-PI. Chicago Botanic Garden and Florida Museum of Natural History: Elevating Phenology and Citizen Science with Machine Learning. AI for Earth Azure Compute and Microsoft Data Labeling Grant. Compute creditd and $2400 labeling award. Start date: 6/1/19.

    • Co-Investigator. An Analytic Center for Biodiversity and Remote Sensing Data Integration. NASA AIST Analytic Center. $80,000 to UF. Target dates: 10/1/2019-9/30/2021.

    2018   

    • Co-PI. Biodiversity Data from Insect Songs: New hardware and software for monitoring insect bioacoustics and new opportunities for public outreach (UFBI Seed Grant, $8K, start date 9/1/2018). 

    • Collaborative PI. ABI Innovation: FuTRES, an Ontology-Based Functional Trait Resource for Paleo- and Neo-biologists. NSF Advances in Biological Informatics, $286,504 to UF, start date 9/01/18.

    • Senior Personnel. Collaborative: Digitization TCN: Collaborative: Capturing California's Flowers: using digital images to investigate historical and geographic phenological change in a biodiversity hotspots. NSF ADBC, $14,238 to UF, Start Date: 11/1/2018

    • Senior Personnel. Collaborative: Digitization TCN: Digitizing "Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful": Facilitating Research on Imperiled Plants with Extreme Morphologies. NSF ADBC, $21,740 to UF, Start date 07/01/2018.

  • Grant Proposal Review:

    129 NSF grant reviews since 2000, 10+ ad-hoc reviews for other state, national or international funding agencies or foundations, 6 reviews for the Canada Foundation for Innovation, 12 reviews for Center for Disease Control and Prevention; multiple reviews (>150) for the JRS Foundation.

    Panel Reviews:

    • 13 reviews, NSF Biological Databases and Informatics Panel May 2003

    • 11 reviews, NSF Biological Research Collections Panel Oct. 2006

    • 12 reviews (1 as primary, 1 as tertiary and the rest as panelist), CDC Grants for Public Health Dissertation Research Special Emphasis Panel Nov. 2009

    • 30 reviews for East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Jan. 2008

    • 14 reviews for JRS Foundation Final Proposals, 2011.

    • 105 reviews for JRS Foundation pre-proposal, Winter/Spring 2012.

    • 30 reviews for JRS Foundation Final Proposals 2012.

    • 13 Reviews of JRS Foundation reinvestment proposals 2013.

    • 15 reviews for NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity panel July 2013

    • 4 reviews for the Canada Foundation for Innovation cyberinfrastructure panel, Dec. 2015

    • 20 reviews for NFS Systematics and Biodiversity panel, March 2016

    • 12 review for JRS Foundation Freshwater Biodiversity RFP, April 2016

    • 10 reviews for JRS Foundation Pollinator RFP, August 2016

    • 14 reviews for JRS Foundation Pollinator and Freshwater Biodiversity RFP, April 2016

    • Expert Committee Reviewer for the Canada Foundation for Innovation (NSE-BIO) Dec. 2016 (4 reviews)

    • Expert Committee Reviewer for the Canada Foundation for Innovation (NSE-BIO) Dec. 2017 (2 reviews)

    • NSF panel review for Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology Feb. 9-11th, 2021.

    Ad-hoc Reviews:

    • 3 ad-hoc reviews for NSF Biological Research Collections

    • 2 ad-hoc review NSF CAREER grant - DEB Population Biology, & DBI Databases and Informatics

    • 1 ad-hoc review for NSF Biological Databases and Informatics (BDI)

    • 2 ad-hoc reviews for NSF DEB Systematic Biology

    • 3 ad-hoc reviews for NSF DEB Biotic Surveys and Inventories

    • 2 ad-hoc review for NSF DEB Systematic Biology and Biological Inventories

    • 1 ad-hoc review for NSF Advances in Biological Informatics Program

    • 1 ad-hoc review for NSF Systematic Revisions program

    • 1 ad-hoc review NSF Earth Sciences Geology and Paleontology.

    • 3 ad-hoc reviews NSF Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology

    • 1 ad-hoc review NSF Instrumentation & Facilities Program, Division of Earth Sciences

    • 1 ad-hoc review for NSF Ecological Biology Cluster

    • 1 ad-hoc review for NSF DEB Population and Evolutionary Processes Cluster

    • 1 ad-hoc review NSF Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI)

    • 1 ad-hoc review for NSF Planetary Biotic Inventory (PBI) program

    • 1 ad-hoc review for NSF Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) program

    • 1 ad-hoc review for NSF Systematics and Biodiversity Science Program

    • 1 ad-hoc review for NSF Advances in Revisionary Systematics Program

    • 2 ad-hoc review for NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program

    • 1 ad-hoc review for State of Louisiana EPSCoR program

    • 1 ad-hoc review for U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation

    • 1 ad hoc review for Council for Earth and Life Sciences, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

    • 1 ad-hoc review for the FONDECYT Chilean National Research Funding competition.

    • 1 ad-hoc review for the Flemish Hercules Foundation

    • 1 ad-hoc review for the Swiss National Science Foundation

    • 1 ad-hoc review for the Keck Foundation

    • 1 ad-hoc review for the Marine Science and Technology Foundation

    • 1 ad-hoc review for the Institut Français de Bioinformatique

    • 1 review for Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 2016

    • 2 reviews for Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences initiative in in Swedish Biodiversity informatics infrastructure 2017 & 2018

    • 1 review for University of Tennessee Chattanooga Center for Excellence in Applied Computational Science & Engineering 2018

    Manuscript Reviews, 2000-present (176 total for 82 different journals):

    African Journal of Ecology (1); Ameircan Journal of Botany (2); American Malacological Bulletin (4); American Naturalist (1); Animal Biology (1); Animal Conservation (1); Archiv fuer Hydrobiologie (1); Archiv für Molluskenkunde (1); Biodiversity and Conservation (3); Biodiversity Data Journal (1); Biodiversity Informatics (6); Bioinformatics (10); Biological Conservation (2); Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society (2); Biology Letters (1); Bioscience (2); Biosystems (1); BMC Ecology (3); BMC Bioinformatics (1); BMC Plant Biology (2); BMC Research Notes (2); Canadian Journal of Zoology (1); Contributions to Zoology (2); Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (1); Diversity and Distributions (3); Earth Science Informatics (1); Ecological Applications (2); Ecological Modeling (1); Ecological Monographs (1); Ecological Research (1); Ecography (4); Ecological Informatics (1); Ecological Solutions and Evidence (1); Ecology (2); Ecology Letters (2); Environmental Research Letters (1); Evolution (11); Evolutionary Bioinformatics (1); Evolutionary Ecology Research (1); Frontiers in Biogeography (1); Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (3); Future Internet (1); Global Change Biology (3); Global Ecology and Conservation (1); Global Ecology and Biogeography (2); Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment Book Chapter review (1); GSA Today (1); IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (1); Integrative and Comparative Biology (1); International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (1); Invertebrate Biology (3); Journal of Animal Ecology (2); Journal of Biogeography (8); Journal of Environmental Management (1); Journal of Mammalogy (2); Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (1); Journal of Molluscan Studies (6); Journal of Morphology (1); Malacologia (1); Methods in Ecology and Evolution (1); Molecular Ecology (4); Molecular Ecology Notes (1); Molluscan Research (1); Nature Communications (2); Nature Ecology and Evolution (1); Naturwissenschaften (2); The Nautilus (1); Oikos (1); Organisms, Diversity and Evolution (1); Pacific Science (1), Paleobiology (4); Palaeontologia Electronica (1); PLOS Biology (4); PLOS One (4); Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2); Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B (3); Quaternary International (1); Science (2); Nature Scientific Data (1); Social Science Computer Review (1); Systematic Biology (2); Trends in Ecology and Evolution (7); The Veliger (2); Zootaxa (4).

    Guest Subject Editor:

    • 2 papers (2012, 2013-2014), Ecological Applications.

    • Book reviews: 2 book concept reviews (2014, 2018) and 1 full book review for Princeton Press.

    • Pre-tenure and tenure letters: 1 for University of Arizona, 2012, 1 for CU Boulder, 2014

    • Pre-tenure reappointment letters: 1 for University of Colorado, 2014.

    • Foundation requested letter of support for Fellows program (1).

  • (Un)common Reads – Citizen Science, Fall 2019

    A honor’s reading course that focuses on reading the book, “Citizen Science: How Ordinary. People are Changing the Face of Discovery” by Caren Cooper. Citizen science, or now often referred to as community science, continues to transform multipe fields of science. This course gives needed background about citizen science as an endeavor using Cooper’s book as a means for exploration. The course also provides a unique opportunity to also do some community science, and includes a project to collectively launch a citizen science project on the Zooniverse. 

    Animals and Human Affairs, Fall 2017 in person, Summer 2019 and Fall 2019 online

    A new undergraduate course at University of Florida that focuses on human and animal relationships, in particular the current threats to animal diversity posed by a human dominated planet, and how humans domesticated animals and the impact of those domestications. The course blends evidence from environmental monitoring, archaeology and genomics in order to tell this big story. The in person course has been converted to an online development in 2019. 

    Ecological Niche Modeling, Spring 2017; Co-taught with Hannah Owens

    A new graduate seminar at UF that focuses on theory and practice of niche modeling, with a particular focus on best practices and theoretical underpinning. The course culminates in a project where students present posters of their work. The seminar is highly hands-on. 

    Global Change Biology Seminar, Spring 2016

    A new graduate seminar at the University of Florida that covers in particular data-driven approaches to documenting species distributions, diversity and population parameters, in the context of conservation and national and international policy concerns. The seminar is “flipped” with more limited discussion of papers and focus on lab learning.

    Museums and Digital Media, Spring 2001, 2003, Fall 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014

    A cross-disciplinary course taught both in the University of Colorado Museum and Field Studies program and in the Technology, Arts and Media certificate program. The course covers the concepts underlying use of digital media in museums and practice in using the tools to create digital media projects.  Major revision to course content and organization in 2012.

    Animal Diversity: Invertebrates, Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2008; Spring 2011, Spring 2013 (formerly Invertebrate Biology taught in Fall 2001, Spring 2003)

    An introduction to the majority of animal diversity with a special emphasis on evolutionary history, biodiversity, function and ecology. Completely revamped lab and lectures, Summer and Fall 2001.  Course emphasis shifted toward diversity in 2004.

    Course syllabus 2013: https://sites.google.com/site/animaldiversity13/
    Flickr site for course: http://www.flickr.com/groups/inverts2013/

    Analyzing Shape: Quantitative Approaches to Shape, Fall 2002

    A graduate seminar initially covering some traditional statistical approaches to measuring shape and then delving into new methods, focusing on outline and landmark based approaches. The course focuses on reading primary literature and on completing a project using the tools learned in the course.

    Zoological Seminar and Practicum, Fall 2002

    This course, developed in tandem with the zoology collections managers, covers all aspects of collection management and curation of zoological material (invertebrate and vertebrate). Lecture, hands-on learning and a final project provides students with background and tools for professional curation.    

    Scientific Survival, Spring 2003, Spring 2005, newly redeveloped in Spring 2009

    A graduate seminar that covers how to succeed in graduate school and beyond. Co-instructor (with Deane Bowers 2003-2005). Course re-developed and co-taught with Pieter Johnson in Spring 2009. 

    2009 Course Homepage: http://ebioprofdevelopment09.googlepages.com/home2

    A Macroecological Perspective on Biodiversity and Biogeography, Spring ’08

    A seminar that combines readings in the primary literature in macroecology, biodiversity and biogeography, focusing on larger spatial scale patterns from regional to global. The seminar combines primary literature with hands-on computer lab exercises teaching the basics of Geographic Information Systems, and new spatial ecology tools. http://macrobiodiv.googlepages.com/home2

  • CURRENT CU EEB or FLMNH ADVISOR or CO-ADVISOR: Laura Brenskelle (Fall 2016-present), Luis Soto (Co-advised with Collette St. Mary, Fall 2016-present), Michael Belitz (Fall 2017-present), Mitch Walters (with Scott Robinson, Spring 2018-present), Kamala Earl (with Tom Frazer, Spring 2019-present), Nick Gardner (with Scott Robinson, Fall 2020-present), Josh Doby (Fall 2020-present).

    GRADUATED PhD STUDENTS: Kathleen Sims (Fall 2006; now Assoc. Professor at the University of La Verne); Jonathan Krieger (Winter 2006, now staff at Kew Gardens after a postdoctoral position at Natural History Museum London), David Daitch (PhD, winter 2007, now Paleoenvironmental Consultant), Heidi Schutz (PhD Fall 2008; now Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma WA); Andrew Hill (PhD Fall 2012; now Chief Scientist at CartoDB), Robert Jadin (PhD, Spring 2013; now at Northeastern Illinois University), Liesl Peterson (PhD, Fall 2007-2013, now Asst. Professor at Warren Wilson College), Natalie Robinson (Co-advisor with Dr. Deane Bowers, PhD, now at NEON), Brian Stucky (PhD, Fall 2015, now an NSF postdoctoral student at University of Florida), Nate Kleist (PhD, Spring 2016), Gaurav Vaidya (Fall ’11-Fall 2017), Chandra Earl (Co-advised, Spring 2016-Summer 2020).

    GRADUATED MASTERS STUDENTS OR PhD TRANSFER, EBIO: Andrew Hill (Fall 2006-Spring 2008), Peter Erb (Fall 2008-Spring 2012), Aidan Beers (now PhD at CU Boulder)

    OUTSIDE MEMBER: Sophia Liu (ATLAS)

    SPONSOR FOR OUTSIDE STUDENT TO WORK IN LAB: Heather Sanders (Summer ‘05)

    UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP STUDENTS: Meghann Toner (Fall ‘06), Victoria Tersigni (Summer 2013, VertNet Intern)

    GRADUATED STUDENTS, ADVISOR, MFS: Allison Smith, Dolly Crawford, Erin King (Non-profit), Ian Cunningham (CU Engineering Center), Mardy Nelson, Lauren Golten, Kate Bowell (Curator of Interpretation, Fort Collins Museum & Discovery Science Center); Melissa Reed-Ekhart (Museum Associate Researcher); Heather Robeson (Museum collections and lab manager), Aly Seerburger (212-2014; Assistant Registrar Denver Art Museum)

    COMMITTEE MEMBER, GRADUATED STUDENTS, MFS: Committee member for 20 graduated MFS students.

    COMMITTEE MEMBER, GRADUATED STUDENTS, EBIO: Committee member for 22 graduated EEB PhD (Matthew Bealor, Brian Buma, Marcus Cohen, Elizabeth Costello, Katie Driscoll, Shannon Fehlberg, Clinton Francis, Jenn Geiger, Sara Hellmuth-Paull, Sharada Krishnan, Melissa Islam, Ryan Jones, John Kineman, Andrew King, Jessica Metcalf, Toni Piaggio, Mike Robeson, Loren Sackett, Se Jin Song, Kika Tarsi, Ty Tuff, Sarah Wagner, Sarah Wise).

    COMMITTEE MEMBER for one graduate EEB Masters student: (Sarah Sattin).

    OUTSIDE EXAMINER FOR PhD DEFENSE:
    Allison Cole (Brian Hall, Advisor), Dalhousie University, Halifax 2004
    Dolly Crawford (Felisa Smith, Advisor), University of New Mexico, 2009
    Dan Rosauer (Shawn Lafferty, Advisor), University of New South Wales, 2010,
    Jason Malaney (Joe Cook, Advisor), University of New Mexico, 2012

    HONORS STUDENT THESIS ADVISOR: Justine Smith (Spring 2010), Elizabeth Studer (Spring 2010), Julie Byle (Fall/Spring 2013-2014), Rebecca Pederson (2014-2015).

    COMMITTEE MEMBER, UNDERGRADUATE HONORS STUDENTS: Allison Kell, James Howe.

    UNDERGRADUATE ASSISTANTS: Quinn Daily (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)/ Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP) funding , Sonorella project), Gavin Dean (UROP funding, Pika survey), Michael Gamanos (Bird species richness), Andrew Hill (bioinformatics/georeferencing), Dan Knowles (invertebrate projects), Brian Kot (crayfish morphometrics/biotic surveys), Ryan Lynch (Spring 08-present, Socompa metazoan project), Jacob Phillips (gene sequencing), Thomas Saelli (NZMS project), Justine Smith (UROP funding, Pika survey summer 2008, 2009; lab assistant 2010), Aaron Stecker (Spring ’09-10, land snail life history and pika surveying), Liz Studer (UROP funding, pika survey, Summer 2008; UROP funding for grasshopper mouth morphology project, Fall 2008 and Spring 2009), Erin Thayer (Spring ’09t, avian flu evolution), Meredith Wilson (Fall ’07-Fall ‘-08, drug resistance in flu project, co-author on published paper), Rebecca Pederson and Helena de Sousa Brasil Barreto (Fall 2013-Summer 2014, species inventory checklist project).

    INDEPENDENT STUDY STUDENTS: Dolly Crawford (MFS 2001), Michael Gamanos (EBIO undergrad. 2004), Philip Goldstein (EBIO undergrad. 2006), Andrew Hill (EBIO undergrad 2006), Heidi Schutz (MFS 2001), Amy Wilkinson (MFS 2006), Clint Francis (EBIO, graduate 2007), Marcus Cohen (EBIO, graduate, 2007), Liesl Peterson (EBIO, graduate, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008), Melissa Reed-Eckhart (MFS, Fall 2008, Summer 2010), Heather Hamilton (MFS, Spring 2009), Andrew Hill (Spring 2010), Robert Jadin (Spring 2010), Brian Stucky (Spring 2010), Rachel Asquith (Museum, Fall 2011), Kika Tarsi (Fall 2011); Melissa Lea Kean (Fall 2012), Aly Seerberger (Museum, Spring 2013), Julie Byle (EBIO, Spring 2014).

    RESEARCH ASSISTANTS OVERSEEN (status in parantheses): Robbie Glaubitz (Web designer, SRA) ‘01-‘03, J. Ryan Allen (Lead georeferencer, SRA) ‘02-‘04, Jeremy Van Cleve (Informatics/GIS SRA) ‘03-‘04, David Neufeld (Informatics developer) ‘02-‘07, Tamara Anderson (half-time post-doctoral student ‘04-‘05), Jenny Ramp (post-doctoral co-advised with Tom Ranker) ‘05-’07. Gregory Hill (Informatics developer) ‘05-‘06, Heather Hamilton (PRA, Lab Technician, 05-‘08); Philip Goldstein (PRA, Lead informatics Developer’06-’08, Senior PRA ’08-12).

    POSTDOCTORAL STUDENTS OVERSEEN (status in parantheses): Eric Waltari (Post-doctoral student co-advised with Susan Perkin AMNH, Oct. 05-July 2007), Javier Otegui (Postdoctoral Student, Sept. 2012-present), Stephen Mayor (Postdoctoral Student, split with NEON, August 2013-2016 at Boulder, and at UF March 2016-present), Christine Ray (May 2014-Dec. 2014), Hannah Owens (May 2015-present, NSF funded and split with Akito Kawahara), Ryan Folk (August 2015-present, NSF funded and split with Pam and Doug Soltis), Narayani Barve (September 2015-present), Vijay Barve (September 2015-present), Brian Stucky (UF Informatics Institute and NSF funded, January 2016-present), Bryan McLean (Aug 2017-present), Diajiang Li (July 2018-present), Maggie Hantak (August 2019-present).

  • 2023

    • Invited presentation, Alachua Audobon Society.

    • Presentation at SPNHC 2023 Demo Camp

    • Invited colloquium presentation and Herbarium Curators presentation – Botany 2023.

    • Invited panelist, Insect automated monitoring workshop – ESA 2023

    • Invited panelist, UF AI Days panel on biodiversity and AI.

    • Invited speaker, University of Arizona SNRE department seminar.

    2022

    • Panel member: NSF-funded workshop Leveraging Data Communities to Advance Open Science, February 28th.

    • Panel member: UNEP Environmental Monitoring Expert Exchange, March 25th.

    • Invited talk: Cal Poly seminar, Macrophenology: connecting data sciences and environmental sciences

    • Invited Symposium talk: Mammal Society Meetings. New approaches for life history studies, Tucson AZ

    • Botany talk at annual Botany meeting, 2022, Anchorage AK

    • Talk at Entomology Meetings 2023, Vancouver, Canada.

    2021

    • Speaker: Round table on biodiversity monitoring and data for Post-2020 Framework, CBD.

    • Graduate Student Invited Symposium Speaker, University of Idaho. October 20th, 2022.

    • Keynote: Early Career Scientists Symposium. Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation. Sizing up new uses of natural history collections for ecogeography and global change biology. University of Michigan, March 4th.

    2020

    • Symposium co-organizer, and symposium talk, “Biodiversity synthesis: Linking large phylogenies with species traits and ecological data”, Botany 2020.

    2019

    • Keynote talk, Life Discovery Conference, Gainesville, FL, March 23, 2019

    • Invited Seminar, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, March 29, 2019

    • Symposium talk, “Interconnected Data”, SPNHC annual meeting, Chicago IL May 29, 2019

    • Talk, “From specimens to larger-scale life history knowledge”, Digital Data Conference, Yale University, June 10, 2019

    • Symposium talk, “Double Trouble Building the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mammals”, American Society of Mammalogists, June 29-July 2nd, 2019.

    • Keynote, “A Macrosystems and Data Sciences Approach to Continental Scale Phenology and Pheno-Mismatch”, Southeastern Ecology and Evolution Conference, Auburn, AL., October 11-13th, 2019.

    • Invited talk, “EBV Metadata Standards and Data Portal”, GEOBON Nature Futures meeting, Annapolis, MD, October 15, 2019.

    • Invited talk, “EBV Metadata Standards and Data Portal”, Biodiversity_Next meeting, Leiden, The Netherlands, Oct. 22.

    2018

    • Invited seminar, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, Feb 2, 2018

    • Invited talk, Phenome2018, Tucson AZ Feb. 17th

    • Invited Named Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Feb. 24th, 2018

    • Ignite Talk in Session, Natural History in the Digital Age, Ecological Society of America, New Orleans, August 5th

    • Promotion Talk, University of Florida, Gainesville FL, September 28, 2018

    • Plenary Talk, Keck Institute of Space Sciences Workshop, Unlocking a New Era in Biodiversity Science, Oct. 1, 2018

    • Plenary Talk, Integrating Wildlife and Other Biotics with Remote Sensing Products for Essential Biodiversity Measures Workshop, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Oct. 22-25th.

    2017

    • Invited talk, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, Feb 2, 2017

    • Invited talk, Santa Fe Institute Science Symposium, Santa Fe, NM, April 21, 2017

    • Invited talk, GEO-BON Symposium on Data Mobilization, Leipzig, Germany, June 28, 2017

    • Invited talk, TDWG Symposium on traits, Ottawa, Canada, October 6th, 2018

    • Invited talk, NEON. Phenology at Scale. October 16th, 2018.

    • Invied Talk, GEOBON Data Task Force meeting, December 15-16, 2017

    2016

    • Invited talk, AnaEE International Conference, Paris France, March 3, 2016

    • Keynote talk, Future Earth working group meeting #2, Monte Verità, March 7, 2016

    • Keynote talk, USAIN (United States Agricultural Information Network) Biannual meeting, Gainesville FL, April 26, 2016.

    • Symposium talk on "Relaunching Notes from Nature" in Enabling Infrastructure: Future Collections, Data & Informatics SPNHC session, Berlin, Germany, June 23, 2106

    • Symposium talk, "VertNet traits: biocollections as a critical source for mammal trait data", in Mammals and Big Data symposium, American Mammal Society meeting, Minneapolis MN, June 27, 2016

    • Thematic session presentation, "Humboldt-Core - Toward a standardized capture of biological inventories for biodiversity monitoring, modeling & assessment", GEO-BON 2016 Open Science Conference, Leipzig, Germany, July 4-8th.

    • 2 Symposum talks, TDWG Annual Meeting, in Semantics symposium and citizen science symposium, Costa Rica, Dec. 5-9.

    2015

    • Invited talk and panel, on crowdsourcing Visual Resources Association 33rd Annual Meeting, Denver CO, March 13, 2015.

    • Talks (2) (one lead-presented and another lead-authored) at SPNHC 30th Annual Meeting, Gainesville, FL. May 20th, 2015.

    • Talks (2), iDigBio Ignite Talk, and Invited Talk in organized session Beyond the Spreadsheet at ESA 2015, Baltimore, August 12-14th.

    • Symposium organizer and 2 lead authored talks and one-coauthored talk, TDWG meeting Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 27-Oct. 1.

    2014

    • Invited symposium presentation, University of Florida Gainesville, FL. January 29th, 2014

    • Keynote talk, Univ. of Wyoming Program in Ecology Graduate Student Symposium, Feb. 21, 2014

    • Brown bag presentation on citizen science, NEON Offices, Boulder CO Feb. 24th, 2014

    • Lightening talk, New Haven iDigBio workshop on Source Materials, March 10-12, 2014

    • Invited Speaker, Collections for the 21st Century Symposium, Gainesville, FL 5-6 May 2014.

    • Symposium talks (3), TDWG meeting Jönköping Sweden. 1 lead presented, 2 co-authored (with R. Walls (2), J. Deck and J. Wieczorek),

    • Invited colloquium presentation, University of Florida Biology Dept., Gainesville, December 14, 2014

    2013

    • Invited symposium presentation, Conservation Paleontology and Biogeography session, International Biogeography Society meeting, Miami, Jan. 9th-12th.

    • Invited presentation at Joint Indo-US Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics, January 19-20, Bangalore, India

    • Invited colloquium, University of Northern Colorado, March 15, 2013

    • Invited colloquium presentations (3), Biodiversity Information Standards meeting, Florence, Italy, Oct. 26-Nov.1, 2013

    2012

    • Invited colloquium, University of Colorado at Denver, March 9, 2012, Denver, CO.

    • Invited keynote presentation, Eighth Annual University of Michigan Early Career Scientists Symposium, March 25, 2012 (International Symposium)

    • Invited seminar, Portland State University, Portland, OR, April 13th, 2012

    • Invited seminar, University of Montana, Missoula MN, May 2, 2012

    • Invited symposium presentations, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Meeting, New Haven CT June 13-16th (one lead presentation in Collaborations series, one coauthored presentation in same session and another co-authored presentation in the Archives and Special Collections series)

    • Invited symposium presentation, Spatial Biodiversity Science and Conservation at a Global Scale, Yale University, October 24th

    • Invited talk, U.C. Berkeley EcoLunch Presentation, November 26th

    • Invited colloquium, Joint Seminar Series in Biodiversity and the Environment, University of Southern California and Los Angeles County Museum, November 29th, 2012

    2011

    • Invited speaker and plenary panelist at the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections meeting, May 24th, San Francisco, CA.

    • Invited webinar speaker in National Park Service's "Climate Change in National Parks" series. Talk title: "Species response to climate change – A view from on high", Sept 8th, Boulder CO (co-presented with Chris Ray).

    • Invited plenary presentation at NEON Member's Meeting, "Understanding the biosphere at regional /continental-scales", Sept 16th, Boulder CO.

    2010

    • Invited seminar, National Biological Information Infrastructure, Aug. 25th, USGS Headquaters in Reston, VA.

    • Invited speaker, CyberCommons Biodiversity and Disease session, Sept. 4th, Lawrence, KS

    • Invited colloquium, Tulane University, Sept. 10th, 2010.

    • Invited seminar, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA November 15. 2010

    • Invited talk, Biodiversity Theory to Inform Global Change Strategies workshop, Dec. 6th 2010

    • Invited talk, National Geographic Society, Washington DC Dec. 15th, 2010

    2009

    • Invited Seminar, University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center. October 22nd.

    • Invited talk, Lifelong Learning Center, host Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, on the topic of digital biocuration.

    • Lead co-presentation (with Walter Jetz and Andrew Hill) at BioSync workshop: Integrating and refining the global knowledgebase of species distributions – data, tools, and applications.

    • Co-Presentation (with Philip Golstein) at NBII one day meeting in Reston, Virginia. OBIS-USA accomplishments and demonstration.

    2008

    • Invited colloquium talk, University of New Mexico Department of Biology, Oct. 30

    • Talk and poster presentation Biodiversity Information Standards meeting (TDWG) Perth, Australia (A. Hill presenting)

    • Invited presentation, Census of Marine Life US National Committee Fall Meeting, Sept. 22-24, Monterey CA (presented with Philip Goldstein, Mark Fornwall)

    • Presentation at 25th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) 2008 Workshop, Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modelling and managing biodiversity knowledge (2nd Author, A. Hill attending, July 10th 2008).

    • Invited International Symposium Presentation, Netherlands Life Watch symposium, June 10, 2008 Amsterdam (Talk entitled: “New Approaches to Monitoring Global Biodiversity”).

    • Invited colloquium talk, University of Colorado at Denver Dept. of Biology on March 14th.

    • Symposium talk, American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting Colloquium, 3rd author on invited paper in the “Global Dimension of Research Infrastructures” symposium. Wouter Los presenting.

    2007

    • Invited Speaker, Western Interior Paleontological Society Symposium 2007

    • Invited Presentation, Genomic Standards Consortium 4th Workshop: “eGenomics: Cataloguing our Current Genome Collection IV”, June 2007

    • Invited International Talk, “GMBA/GBIF joint workshop – data mining for mountain biodiversity research” meeting, Sept. 26-28 in Copenhagen Denmark.

    • Invited International Symposium Presentation, Global Biodiversity Information Facility GB14 Invited Speaker, Science Symposium. “GBIF's role in creating a platform for biodiversity prediction”, October 18, 2007 Amsterdam.

    • American Medical Informatics Association Poster Presentation (A. Hill, R. Guralnick, B. Alexandrov, D. Janies) “Genomic Analysis and Geographic Visualization of H5N1 and SARSCoV” (A. Hill attending, Distinguished Poster winner, Nov. 2007).

    2006

    • Invited Presentation, Natural History Museum London August 2006

    • Invited Presentation, Global Biodiversity Information Facility Governing Board Meeting 12 - Science Symposium [International; Co-Presented with Paul Flemons]

    • Invited Participant, American Malacological Society Workshop: New Frontiers in Western US Non-marine Malacology [July 2006, 2 lead presented papers]

    • TDWG 2006 Symposium “Building Biodiversity Applications” Presentation [lead author Guralnick, presented by D. Neufeld]

    • Invited Presentation, Global Biodiversity Information Facility Governing Board Meeting 13 [October 2006, Paul Flemons lead presenter]

    • Evolution: One co-authored presentation, one co-authored poster

    2005

    • Invited colloquium talk: American Museum of Natural History

    • 1st Virtual Globe Scientific Users Conference: One co-authored presentation (Andrew Hill presenting)

    • Invited workshop speaker. New Zealand Mud Snail Workshop (USFW and ANS sponsored workshop

    • Invited symposium speaker: Morphometrics Symposium at the North American Paleontological Conference June 2005. [International]

    • Taxonomic Database Working Group 2005 International Meeting, Saint Petersburg (3rd author on multi-author talk) [International]

    • American Malacological Society 2005 meeting (2nd author, Kathleen Sims attending)

    2004

    • Co-organizer and Symposium talk (study of methods for ordered sequences) at Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

    • Evolution (2): Lead presenter and second author

    • Invited Colloquium Talk: University of Wyoming at Laramie Botany Dept.

    • Invited Colloquium Talk: New Mexico State University

    • Invited Colloquium Talk: University of California Berkeley

    • Taxonomic Database Working Group Meeting, Co-Presenter, New Zealand (Oct. 2004) [International].

    • Invited Colloquium Talk: Brigham Young University

    2003

    • American Malacological Society

    • Society for Conservation GIS (second author)

    • Invited Presenter, Taxonomic Database Working Group Spatial Data Plenary Session [International] (David Neufeld attending)

    • Invited Colloquium Talk Colorado State University

    • Invited Workshop participant Georeferencing Workshop Yale University

    • Invited Workshop participant Distributed Generic Information Retrieval Workshop UCSD

    2002

    • Invited Symposium (Biogeography) Talk Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

    • Invited Symposium (Conservation Biology) Talk at American Malacological Society (August 2002).

    • Geological Society of America topical sessions (2) – The Phenotype (lead presenter), Morphological Trends (second author).

    • Symposium Talk, Vera Fretter Functional Morphology Symposium at Malacologia Unitas Malacology Meetings [International]

    • Symposium Talk Molluscan Evolution and Development, at Malacologia Unitas Malacology Meetings (second author) [International]

    • Botanical Society of America (second author)

    2001

    • North American Paleontological Conference (third author) [International]

    2000

    • American Malacological Society

    • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

    1999

    • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

    1998

    • Unitas World Congress of Malacology [International]

    • International Congress of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development

    1997

    • Museums and the Web Conference

    • CalPaleo Annual Meeting

    • American Malacological Union Meeting, Symposium Speaker

    • Paleo21 Meeting, Invited Delegate [International]

    1996

    • North American Paleontological Conference

    • American Malacological Union Meeting

    1995

    • American Malacological Union Meeting

  • 2023

    • Invited Participant, FISHGLOB Infrasturcture Meeting, Vancouver April 7-11.

    • Invited Participant, iSamples Workshop, Tucson AZ May 7-11.

    • Invited Participant and Conference Steering Committee, Species on the Move, May 15-21.

    • Invited Participant, TREETIME BII working group, Morton Arbotetum

    • Workshop organizer, Biodiversity Data Wrangling, Botany 2023

    • Workshop organizer, Phenology Community Science and Phenobase, ESA 2023

    • Invited Panelist, DragonCon Science Track “Earth, Life and You”

    2020

    • Panelist and Co-organizer, SSB in the Swamp forum, Combining phylogenies and ecological data layers, Jan 3-6th, 2020

    • Invited participant, Global Ant Biodiversity Synthesis meeting, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan, January 19-22.

    • Invited participant, Jetstream Advisory Board Meeting, Feb. 2nd, Tucson, AZ.

    • Co-organizer and Invited participant, GEO-BON in the Cloud, Leipzig, Germany, February 14-17th.

    • Invited participant, Terrestrial Parasite Tracker meeting, Chicago, IL, Feb. 22-24th.

    • Invited participant, ARTS workshop, Washington, DC, March 2-4th.

    • Darwin Core Hour and BBQ co-organizer, Imagining a Georeferencing Gazetteer, April 20th

    • Phenology data integration virtual workshop co-organizer, June 17th and June 22nd.

    • GEO BON virtual workshop, integrating monitoring data, organizer, July 10th.

    2019

    • Invited participant, GEO BON Implementation Committee meeting, Porto Portugal, July 7-10.

    • Co-organizer, FuTRES 1st workshop, Eugene, OR July 14-16th.

    • Invited participant, Half-Earth Ant and Bee Data for Conservation, Berkeley, CA October 8-10th, 2019.

    • Invited participant, GEOBON Nature’s Futures meeting, Annapolis, MD. Oct. 12-14th.

    • Co-organizer, Mega-Symposium on Operationalizing Traits and Operationalizing EBVs, at Biodiversity_Next Conference, Oct. 21-25th, Leiden, The Netherlands.

    2018

    • Invited participant and talk, BCON Data Integration and Attribution Meeting, Lawrence KS Feb 13-14th.

    • Invited participant, GLOBIS-B Species Interaction workshop, in Bari, Italy, Feb. 25-28th, 2018.

    • Mentor, GBIF BID Data Mobilization for Research and Policy Making training workshop, April 09-15th, Cape Town, South Africa.

    • Member, NEON STEAC (steering committee) bi-annual meeting, Boulder, CO, April 24-26th, 2018

    • Co-organizer, NASA GEOBON Data Integration Workshop, Yale University, May 3-4th, 2018.

    • Invited Participant and Mentor for Organizer Brian Stucky, iDigBio-supported Insect Natural History Ontology Meeting, University of Florida, May 29-June 1.

    • Steering Committee Member and invited participant, GBIF Outlook meeting, July 23-28th, Copenhagen, Denmark.

    • Meeting co-organizer, State of the Hexapod Tree of Life, Field Museum, July 31-August 2nd.

    • Invited Panelist, NEON Workshop, Ecological Society of America, August 5th.

    • Invited Participant, Whole Tale Workshop, Big Ten Conference Center, Chicago, Sept. 9

    • Invited Panelist, NSF Bio-Advisory Committee meeting on science uses of NEON, Washington DC, Sept. 20th.

    • Invited participant, Keck Institute of Space Sciences workshop, "Unlocking a New Era in Biodiversity Science", October 1-5th.

    • Invited Participant, Integrating Wildlife and Other Biotics with Remote Sensing Products for Essential Biodiversity Measures Workshop, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Oct. 22-25th.

    • Invited Participant, Harnessing Natural History Collections Data for Addressing National Challenges, Oak Springs Garden Foundation, Nov. 1-3rd.

    2017

    • Invited Participant, GLOBIS-B Traits Workshop, including invited lightening talk, in Amsterdam, March 20-23rd.

    • Invited Participant, Latin Biodiversity Observation Network meeting, Stanford, CA, March 28-April 1.

    • Workshop co-organizer (with Kitty Emery), ZooArchNet, A Meeting of the Minds workshop. April 17-18th.

    • Workshop co-organizer (lead: Mark Westneat) Future-Phy State of the Tree of Life. May 5-7th, Field Museum, Chicago.

    • Member of Board at JRS Board Spring Meeting Johannesburg, South Africa, and Kasane, Botswana, May 20-24th.

    • Invited participant, Linked Samples and Environmental Data, Canberra, Australia, May 26-June 1.

    • Member, NEON STEAC (steering committee) bi-annual meeting, Boulder, CO, June 20-23rd.

    • GEO-BON Implementation Committee meeting, Leipzig, Germany, June 26-28th

    • GEO-BON Data Mobilization Symposium, Leipzig, Germany, June 28-30th.

    • Organizer of 2 Symposiums at TDWG, Ottawa, Canada Oct. 3-6th.

    • Member JRS Board Spring Meeting, Washington DC, November 5, 2017.

    • Participant, Dimensions of Biodiversity Data Management workshop, Gainesville, FL Dec. 11, 2017

    • Member EBV Development Meeting, Leipzig, Germany, Dec. 13th, 2017

    • Co-organizer, GEO-BPN EBV Data Task Force meeting, Leipzig, Germany, Dec. 14-15th, 2017

    2016

    • Workshop Co-Organizer (with Ramona Walls), Integrating Phenological, Trait and Environmental Data For Continental Scale Analysis::A Community Approach. NEON/Powell Center sponsored workshop, Fort Collins, CO Jan. 12-16th.

    • Local organizer (with Nico Cellinese), FuturePhy Clade Workshop(s), UF Informatics Institute, Feb. 20-22nd.

    • Invited participant, GLOBIS-B 1st working group meeting, iDiv, Leipzig, March 1-3rd.

    • Invited participant, Future Earth working group meeting #2, Monte Verita, Switzerland March 6-9th.

    • Invited participant and co-organizer, WeDigBio planning meeting, Gainesville FL, April 20-22nd.

    • Vice President of the Board at JRS Board Spring Meeting Amsterdam, NL, May20-24th.

    • NCEAS working group member, NASA Observing Marine Biodiversity From Space, June 6-9th.

    • Invited Member, GLOBIS-B EBV Workshop 2, Seville, Spain Jun 12-15th.

    • Invited Member, US-China Dimensions of Biodiversity Collaborative Workshop, Hangzhou, China, October 20-22nd.

    • Vice President of the Board at JRS Board Spring Meeting, Washington DC, October 24-26th.

    • Invited participant, Dimensions of Amazonia Annual Meeting, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 1-5th.

    • Member, NEON STEAC (steering committee) meeting, Boulder, CO, Nov 14-16th.

    • Invited participant, FutureProofing Natural History Collections, New Haven, CT, Dec. 13-15th.

    2015

    • Workshop Co-Organizer, Integrative analysis of spatial biodiversity data and Map of Life, at the International Biogeographic Society Bi-annual meeting, Bayreuth, Germany, Jan. 12th, 2015

    • Invited Workshop Participant, The Future of Digital Nomenclature – an ‘ICDN’ Nomina 14 - ICB meeting (funded by IUBS), London, UK, Jan. 15-17th, 2015.

    • AIM-UP! Annual Meeting Invited Participant, Albuquerque New Mexico, Jan. 23-25th.

    • Invited NCEAS workshop participant, SONet Observation Standards Alignment meeting, March 1-5th, Santa Barbara

    • Invited Participant, FuturePhy kick-off meeting, Tucson AZ, March 8-10th.

    • Invited Participant and presenter, GRBio workshop, Washington DC April 27-28th

    • Invited Participants and presenter, Global Biodiversity Monitoring Symposium, Yale University, May 4-6th.

    • Invited Participant, C4P RCN Synthesis Meeting, Lamont-Doherty Observatory, New York, May 13-15th.

    • President of the Board at JRS Board Fall Meeting and invited keynote symposium speaker, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, June 1-6th.

    • Invited NCEAS workshop participant, NCEAS working group meeting #2, Biodiversity as an Earth Systems Science, June 29th-July 1st.

    • Invited participant, IGSN Metadata Kernel Working Meeting, Sept, 15-16th, Los Angles, CA.

    • Invited participant, iDigBio Summit V, November 4-6th, 2015, Washington DC

    • Invited participant, 3rd Annual Amazonia Dimensions meeting, Nov. 9-13th, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    • Invited participant and plenary speaker, Promoting synergy in the innovative use of environmental data, Dec. 2-4, Washington DC.

    • Invited participant and speaker, Addressing Biological Informatics Workforce Needs, Dec. 8th, Washington DC.

    2014

    • Organizational meeting, PCO/BCO Ontology Workshop, Tucson AZ, Jan 16-19th

    • Co-organizer, PCO/BCO Ontology Workshop, Tucson AZ, Feb. 18th-Feb. 20th

    • Invited Participant, AIM-UP! RCN Network: Museums and Undergraduate Education 2013 workshop. Asilomar CA Feb. 27-March 1

    • Invited Participant, CONABIO (Mexican Biodiversity Agency) Scientific Advisory Committee meeting. Mexico City, MX, March 4th-6th.

    • Invited Participant, Digitizing Source Materials Workshop, New Haven, Yale, March 10-12.

    • Invited Participant, Genomic Standards Consortium 16 Material Sample Core/BCO Hackathon, Oxford UK March 30-April 2.

    • President of the Board at JRS Board Spring Meeting, in Bogota and Villa de Leyva, Colombia, June 1-6th.

    • Invited Panelist, Pro-iBiosphere final meeting, Meise, Belgium, June 10-13th.

    • Visting Faculty/Workshop Organizer (with David Bloom), Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) niche modeling program, La Selva and Cuerici, July 5-11th.]

    • Invited Participant, RCN4GSC Darwin Core and BCO mapping workshop, Eugene, OR August 23-25th.

    • Co-organizer, The Meaning of Names Conference, CU Boulder, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2014.

    • Invited Participant, AIM-UP planning meeting, Half Moon Bay, CA Oct. 5th, 2014.

    • Local organizer and participant, Biovel Evaluation Meeting. Boulder, CO Oct. 13th, 2014.

    • Co-organizer, Identifiers Workshop, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 25-26th, 2014.

    • Invited Participant, Taxon concepts and species ranges. Berkeley CA, Nov. 7-8th.

    • President of the Board at JRS Board Fall Meeting, in Atlanta, GA Nov. 9-13th.

    • Co-organizer, Notes from Nature/iDigBio CitStitch Hackathon, Gainesville, FL, Dec. 3-5th.

    • Invited participant, NCEAS working group, Biodiversity as an Earth Systems Science, Dec. 10-12th.

    2013

    • Co-organizer, one day Biodiversity Informatics workshop at International Biogeography Society Meeting, Miami.

    • Invited participant (one of 10 US invitees) Joint Indo-US Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics, January 19-20, Bangalore, India.

    • Invited participant and Symposium Speaker, 1st Annual Meeting of the Project “Structure and evolution of the amazon biota and its environment: an integrative approach” in Sao Palao, Brazil, March 4-8.

    • Invited participant NSF funded DwC/MIxS Focus Group, March 26-27th, Seattle Wash.

    • Invited participant VertNet 1st Sustainability Meeting, March 28th, Oakland, CA.

    • Invited Participant, AIM-UP! RCN Network: Museums and Undergraduate Education 2013 workshop. Cambridge, MA April 11-12th

    • Invited Participant, JRS Annual Board Meeting, Capetown, South Africa, May 25-June 1.

    • Co-organizer and speaker, Scaling Up Workshop on Continental Scale Population and Community Ecology, Maryland, June 3-7.

    • Introductory Speaker on Global Change and Biodiversity Session, Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia, Irvine CA June 15-18.

    • Co-organizer and speaker, EOL-BioSynC and Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies Symposium and Workshop one Species Inventory Standards and Global Island Biogeography. New Haven, June 19-23.

    • Co-organizer, Workshop Facilitator and Host, 2nd VertNet Biodiversity Informatics Training Workshop, June 24-28th in Boulder, Colorado (25 student participants)

    • Invited Participant COOPEUS Workshop, EGI-TF annual meeting, Madrid, Spain, September 18-19, 2013

    • Co-organizer, Semantics of Biodiversity Super-Symposium (3 symposium sessions plus a set of plenaries), TDWG meeting, Florence, Italy, 2013

    • Invited Participant, JRS Annual Board Meeting, Chicago, November 9-11, 2013

    • Invited Participant, Art of Life Development Meeting, Saint Loius, MO Nov. 12, 2013 Co-organizer, Notes from Nature/iDigBio Hackathon to Further Enable Public Participation in the Online Transcription of Biodiversity Specimen Labels, Dec. 16-20th, 2013

    2012

    • Invited Participant, Genome Standards Consortium Biodiversity Working Group at Joint Genome Institue, Jan. 25-27th.

    • Invited Participant, AIM-UP! RCN Network: Museums and Undergraduate Education 2012 workshop,Fairbanks, AL. Feb. 20-23rd.

    • Invited Participant, CONABIO (Mexican Biodiversity Agency) Scientific Advisory Committee meeting and 20 year celebration of the agency. Mexico City, MX, 3/14-3/16 2012

    • Invited Participant, iDigBio Digitization Hub Workshop on Standards and Cyberinfrastructure (breakout session co-lead), Gainesville FL. March 28-31

    • Invited Participant, Citizen Science Alliance Workshop, Adler Planetarium, Chicago IL May 8-9th.

    • JRS Board of Directors Meeting, San Jose and Guanacasta, Costa Rica, May 13-20th.

    • Invited Participant, The Future of NESCent meeting, Durham, NC, May 24-25th.

    • Invited Participant, Moorea Biocode Sustainability Meeting. Moorea, French Polynesia, May 31-June 4th.

    • Workshop Facilitator and Host, 1st VertNet Biodiversity Informatics Training Workshop, June 24-29th in Boulder, Colorado (27 student participants)

    • Invited Paricipant, GBIC (Global Biodiversity Information Conference), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2-4

    • Invited Participant, Genomics Standards Consortium meeting, Oxford, UK Sept. 17-18th, 2012 Invited Participant, DataONE Metadata Working Group annual meeting, Albuquerque, NM, Sept. 19-20th, 2012.

    • Invited Participant, Spatial Biodiversity Science and Conservation at a Global Scale, Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies Symposium series, and workshop (including presentation), Oct. 23-24th.

    • Invited Participant, JRS Fall Board Meeting, Philadelphia PA Oct. 31-Nov. 3rd.

    • Invited Participant, Climate Change and Species Interactions: Ways Forward, Cary Institute, NY, Nov. 14th-15th.

    2011

    • Invited Participant, iPlant GIS Advisory Group meeting, Feb. 24-25th, Tucson, AZ (and 20 minute presentation on Map of Life)

    • Invited Participant, RCN Collections Web Digitization Workshop, March 3rd-4th, Norman, OK (20 minute presentation on scope of digitization effort.

    • Invited Participant, NSF S2I2 Workshop on Digitizing Collections, March 22nd-24th, Chicago, IL

    • JRS Board of Directors Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya, May 29-June 5th

    • Invited Participant, Exploratory meeting to consider an AIBS Ad Hoc Committee on Biodiversity-related Sciences, June 17th, Norman, OK.

    • Invited Participant, Workshop on EU-US cooperation on environmental research infrastructures and e-infrastructures, Sept 13-14th, Brussels, Belgium (and 30 minute co-presented presentation with Wouter Los of LifeWatch on Biodiversity E-infrastructure during meeting opening).

    • Invited Participant, Future of Systematics Writing Meeting, Sept. 23-25th, Field Museum, Chicago.

    • Invited Participant, Occurrence Data Integration Workshop: Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON), Sept. 27th-29th, Reston, VA.

    • Invited Paricipant, JRS Fall Board of Directors Meeting, Washington DC Nov. 9-13th, 2011.

    • Invited Participant, Phyloinformatics Research Foundation 2011 Board meeting, NESCent, Durham NC, Dec. 12-14th.

    2010

    • Invited Participant, NESCent workshop “Biological Collections Digitization Focus Meeting”, Durham, NC. Feb. 5-7th.

    • Co-Moderator, Census of Marine Life Town Hall “Observing Reality: Contributions and Applications from Integrated, Multi-Disciplinary Observing Efforts”, Feb 22-24, Ocean Sciences meeting, Portland, OR.

    • Co-organizer, NCEAS workshop #1 - Choosing (and making available) the right environmental layers for modeling how the environment controls the distribution and abundance of organisms. Meeting in Santa Barbara, CA March 22-26th.

    • Invited Participant, RCN Collections Web meeting, New Orleans, March 26th-27th 2010

    • Invited Participant, Review Team for European biodiversity infrastructure project, Life Watch (one of five high-level invited experts). Meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, April 15th and 16th 2010.

    • Co-organizer, NESCent workshop “Biological Collections Digitization Community Development and Strategic Plan”, Durham, NC, April 28-May 1.

    • Invited Participant, NSF/NBII Dimensions of biodiversity cyberinfrastructure planning workshop, Washington DC May 3rd.

    • Co-organizer, NESCent workshop - Integrating datasets to investigate megafauna extinctions in the Late Quaternary. Meeting in Durham, NC May 26-29.

    • Invited participant, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Working Group on Biodiversity Preservation and Ecosystem Management meeting, Washington DC, June 23-24th.

    • Organizer. BioSync Map of Life Informatics meeting at the University of Colorado, Boulder, July 7-10 2010

    • Invited instructor, Geo-ecological Data Analysis , University of Amsterdam, July 12-16th 2010 (http://www.science.uva.nl/ibed-cge/object.cfm/C374A7E3-7BAE-4B5C-AC168B6F199BBC09).

    • Invited participant, OBIS-USA Advisory team meeting, USGS Center for Biological Informatic, Lakewood, CO, August 3-4th.

    • Invited participant, 2nd President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Working Group on Biodiversity Preservation and Ecosystem Management meeting, Washington DC, August 26th-27th.

    • Invited participant, External Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting for the annual CyberCommons for Ecological Forecasting project. Sept. 3,4th Lawrence, KS.

    • Co-organizer, NSF Digitization workshop (13 national participants to discuss roles and responsibilities for a national digitization hub). Sept. 16th and 17th, CU Boulder, CO.

    • Invited participant, Neotoma Paleoecology Database workshop, Sept. 23rd-26th, Madison, WI.

    • Invited participant, Future Directions in Biodiversity and Systematics Research, Sept 29-Oct 1. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (note not at meeting Sept. 30th)

    • Invited participant, 3rd President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Working Group on Biodiversity Preservation and Ecosystem Management meeting, Washington DC, Sept. 30th.

    • Co-organizer, NCEAS workshop #2 - Choosing (and making available) the right environmental layers for modeling how the environment controls the distribution and abundance of organisms (focus on layers). Meeting in Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 12-16th.

    • Workshop Leader, Spatial Data and Analysis in Ecology and Evolution, Ecological Niche Modeling submodule, Oct. 21-22nd, 2010, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

    • Invited participant, “Sustain What?” Workshop, Nov. 6-8th, New York Botanical Garden, NY.

    • Invited participant, “Biodiversity Theory to Inform Global Change Strategies”, Dec. 5-7th, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA.

    • Invited participant, Phyloinformatics Foundation Board Meeting, Durham, NC Dec. 12-13th.

    • Invited participant, BiSciColl kick off meeting, Dec. 16-17th, Washington DC

    2009

    • Invited Participant, NSF funded workshop "Future directions in biodiversity and systematics research", Long Beach, CA Oct. 30-Nov. 1.

    • Co-organizer, BioSynC working group: Integrating and refining the global knowledgebase of species distributions – data, tools, applications. Meeting held in Chicago, IL May 21-24.

    • Invited seminar participant, Fall 2009 ATLAS seminar Visual Art/Visual Science: Technology, Aesthetics, Investigation

    2008

    • Workshop Leader, Species Distribution/Ecological Niche Modeling. Two day workshop at University of Hawai’I West O’ahu Botany Department, May 28-29.

    • Inivted Participant including invited short presentation on geospatial data and analysis, NESCent workshop, “VertNet – The future of distributed database projects utilizing natural history collections”. May 13th and 14th, Durham, North Carolina.

    • Invited Participant, Biological Ocean Observing: Exploring components of IOOS from the perspective of Census of Marine Life, sponsored by the Census of Marine Life (CoML). Washington DC, January 14-15th, 2008.

    2007

    • Microbial Observatory Principal Investigators Meeting, Washington DC (with Philip Goldstein, Elizabeth Costello)

    • Invited Participant, “eGenomics: Cataloguing our Current Genome Collection IV”

    • National Institute for Environmental E-Science (NIEeS) Cambridge UK, June 6-8,

    • The 4th meeting of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC)

    • Invited Participant, “Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment/Global Biodiversity Information Facility joint workshop – data mining for mountain biodiversity research” meeting, Sept. 26-28 in Copenhagen Denmark.

    2006

    • Invited Participant including invited short presentation on geospatial data, NBII/NSCA Overcoming the Digitization Bottleneck in Natural History Collections. Harvard University. Sept 8-9 2006

    • Organizer, Moore Foundation Biogeomancer 2nd developer’s workshop January 12-13 2006 CU Boulder

    • Invited Participant, Moore Foundation Biogeomancer 3rd developer’s workshop May 23-24 2006, Albuquerque NM.

    2005

    • Invited Participant Mathematical Biosciences Institute Workshop on Phylogenetic Analysis of Large Datasets, Dec. 1-4.

    • Organizer, Moore Foundation Biogeomancer 1st developer’s workshop June 13-15 2005 CU Boulder

    • Invited Participant NSF Paleontology Museum Collections and Database Workshop May 31-June 1 2005 Illinois State Museum.

    • Invited Participant Moore Foundation Biogeomancer workshop March 2005 Berkeley, CA (CU Boulder Biogeomancer team attendance – Dave Neufeld, Greg Hill, Robert Guralnick)

    • Invited Participant Sloan Foundation funded workshop Digital Libraries to Digital Laboratories, London UK.

    2004

    • Symposium Co-organizer 2004 Division of Systematics and Evolution Biology Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

    2003

    • Invited Participant NSF Georeferencing workshop 2003 Hartford, CT (Mapstedi team attendance – Dave Neufeld, Robert Guralnick)

    • Invited Participant NSF DiGIR installation workshop 2003 San Diego (Mapstedi team attendance – David Neufeld)

    Pre-2000

    • Invited Participant MUSE 1995 Biological Collection Information Provider Workshop

    • Museum Computer Network 1995 Meeting, Workshop Leader. Workshop Title: Providing Information On-line

    • Association of Science and Technology Centers 1995 Meeting, Invited Panelist

    • Western Museum Association 1995 Meeting, Session Moderator for Museum/Internet Panel.

  • CU Boulder Campus (2000-2015):

    • Member, Technology, Arts and Media Faculty Advisory Committee (2000-2006)

    • TAM course grant committee, 2001.

    • Boulder Faculty Assembly Representative, Museum (Fall 2003-Spring 2004)

    • ATLAS Faculty Fellow, Spring 2006-present

    • ATLAS PhD Program Graduate Committee Fall 2006

    • UROP grant review, 2006, 2008

    • Flagship 2030 strategic planning research committee, global crossroads subcommittee (2008).

    • Member, Search Committee Petalibrary Storage Administrator

    • Graduate School Executive Advisory Council, Fall 2010-Spring 2012

    • Research Review Board, inaugural member, Fall 2012-present

    • Member, review committee, Director of ATLAS Fall 2012-Spring 2013

    • Member, Research Data Advisory Committee, Fall 2013-present.

    • Participant, Boulder Faculty Assembly Leadership Institute Inaugural Class Fall 2013-Spring 2014.

    • PURC Committee Member, Leticia Sanchez reappointment case, Fall 2013

    CU Boulder Natural History Museum (2000-2015):

    • Member, Search Committee, Vertebrate Zoology Collections Manager (Summer-Fall, 2013)

    • Chair, Search Committee, Invertebrate Zoology Collections Manager (Fall 2012-Spring 2013)

    • Member, Search Committee Botany Curator and Asst. or Assoc. Professor (Fall 2011, Spring 2012)

    • Chair, Search Committee Botany Curator and Asst. or Assoc. Professor (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)

    • Dena Smith Primary Unit Evaluation Committee for promotion and tenure, Summer ‘08-Spring ‘09

    • Biology Hall Renovation Committee (Summer 2007-present)

    • Merit Review Committee (Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2012, Spring 2014)

    • Co-Chair of Collections Committee, one of the four standing committees in the Museum (Fall 2005-Summer 2008)

    • Chair, Search Committee Vertebrate Curator and Asst. Professor (Fall 2006-Spring 2007)

    • Chair, Search Committee Vertebrate Curator and Asst. Professor (Fall 2003-Spring 2004)

    • Chair/Co-Chair, Search Committee Vertebrate Collections Manager (2003-2005)

    • Chair, Museum Grant Committee (Spring 2003-04)

    • Search committee Invertebrate Collections Manager (Fall 2001)

    • Search committee Museum Informatics position (Fall 2001)

    • Biodiversity Hall funding committee (Fall 2001-Spring 2002)

    • Museum Collections Committee (Fall 2000-Summer 2008)

    • Museum and Field Studies Curriculum Committee (Fall 2000-Spring 2004)

    CU Boulder, EEB:

    • Chair, Piet Johnson Tenure Review Committee (Fall 2012)

    • Member, Web Committee, EEB (Fall 2011-)

    • Member, Search Committee Botany Curator and Asst. or Assoc. Professor (Fall 2011-Spring 2012)

    • Chair, Christy McCain reappointment committee, Fall 2010

    • Budget Committee, Chair, Fall 2010-present

    • Member, Tenure Review Committee for Chuck Davis (Spring 2010)

    • Co-Chair (with Deane Bowers), Search Committee Botany Curator and Asst. or Assoc. Professor (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)

    • Chair, Search Committee for Valerie McKenzie Asst. Professor hire (Spring 2009)

    • Executive Committee (2008-2009, 2012-2013)

    • Budget Committee, Spring 2009 and 2010

    • Member of the EBIO Website Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2009

    • Merit Review Committee (Spring 2005 untenured, Spring 2007 untenured, Spring 2009 tenured)

    • Chair, Search Committee Vertebrate Curator and Asst. Professor (Fall 2003-Spring 2004)

    • Co-Chair (with Deane Bowers), Search Committee Vertebrate Curator and Asst. Professor (Fall 2006-Spring 2007)

    • Chair, Web Committee, EEB (Fall 2002-Spring 2003)

    • Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee (Spring 2003-Fall 204)

    • Member, Sequencing Facility Committee (Fall 2004-Spring 2006)

    • Graduate Student Computing Facility Liaison (Spring 2001-2002)

    FLMNH (2015-present):

    • Co-chair, FLMNH Storage Committee (with David Blackburn; Fall 2015-2016)

    • Member, Museum Teaching Committee (Fall 2016-present)

    • Member, Digitization Committee (Fall 2016-present)

    • Chair or Co-Chair, Digitization Committee (Fall 2019-2023)

    • UF Biodiversity Institute Advisory Committee (Spring 2015-present)

    • Member, Collections Manager Hiring Committee (Spring 2016)

    • Chair, Curator of AI Hiring Committee (Fall 2021, recused due to COI in late Fall)

    Campus and Community Outreach

    • Dragon Con Science Track panelist 2022 and 2023 discussing biodiversity

    • WeDigBio event organizer, 2015 and 2016, @ University of Florida Museum of Nat. Hist.

    • Science team member on One Tree, One Planet events, Nov. 17-19th, which includes science writing credits on TreeTender, a film produced in collaboration with Digital Worlds, and collaboration with Naziha Metsoui, an acclaimed artist with whom we are working on outdoor digital project events.

    • EcoArts Australis Conference Remote Presentation with Marda Kirn and Michelle Ellsworth,May 12-13th, 2013.

    • Panelist, Faculty Teaching Excellence Program ECF workshop on "Effective Student Mentoring", November 11, 2012.

    • Collaborator and Panelist, Preparations for the Obsolescence of the Y-Chromosome Second Edition (work with CU Theatre and Dance Professor Michelle Ellsworth) (KGNU How On Earth radio show interview and post-performance panelist CU Museum, March 8, 2011)

    • Keynote speaker, CU Biodiversity Symposium (Feb. 2011)

    • Curator of a BioLounge exhibit, Declining Freshwater Mussel Biodiversity (Feb. 2009)

    • Worked with local poet Jack Collum on collaborative poem on Climate Change presented at an EcoArts performance: Balancing Acts: Visions for a Sustainable Future. Served on after performance panel (Sept. 2008).

    • Featured researcher in CU Museum of Natural History Exhibit: Evolution Here and Now (Fall 2008)

    • Panelist, Science and Religion discussion, part of the Teaching Evolution: Narrowing Gaps in Understanding Evolution workshop, June 2008

    • Co-organizer, Boulder BioBlitz CU Museum 2004

    • Public lecture as part of the CU Museum 2003 Centennial Lecture Series: "Water Ways: The Changing Nature of Water in the West and its Impact on Freshwater Life."

    • Lecture to the CU Director’s Club at the 2003 Vail Annual Meeting.

    • Volunteer at: CU Museum Open House 2000,2001,2002; Biodiversity Day at Denver Museum of Nature and Science 2001; Dinosaur Day at Pueblo Zoo 2002.

    • Featured researcher: 2001-2002 Sponsored Research Annual Report

    • Membership and Nominating Committee Member, American Malacological Society 2004-2005

    • Member, Freshwater Gastropod of North America Editorial Board 2004-2005.

    • Reviewer for the Berkeley Natural History Museums Informatics Architecture Requirements

    • Associate Editor, Scientific Reports 2022-present

    • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2022-present

    • Associate Editor, Biodiversity Informatics 2005-2021

    • Associate Editor, Palaeontologica Electronica 2006-2010.

    • Associate Editor, PLOS ONE 2010-present.

    • Associate Editor, Frontier in Evolution and Ecology 2022-present.

    • Member of Steering Committee for the VertNet project May 2008-Dec. 2009.

    • Chair, Steering Committee for the VertNet project Jan. 1. 2010-2015.

    • Member, Organizing Committee, iEvoBio Satellite Conference at SSB/SSE 2010, 2012

    • Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, iEvoBio Satellite Conference at SSB/SSE 2011

    • Working Group Member & Subgroup Lead on Informatics, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Working Group on Biodiversity Preservation and Ecosystem Services 2010-2011. Report here.

    • Invited Member, External Scientific Advisory Committee for the CyberCommons for Ecological Forecasting project 2010-2012.

    • Member, Board of Directors, Phyloinformatics Research Foundation Inc. 2010-2013

    • Elected Member, Board of Directors, JRS Biodiversity Foundation 2011-2017

    • Vice President and Executive Committee, Board of Directors, JRS Biodiversity Foundation, 2012-2014 (approx.. 5 hours per month)

    • President, Board of Directors, JRS Biodiversity Foundation, 2014-present. (JRS spends an operating budget of ~3million per year based on a $50million endowment)

    • Invited Member, NEON Data Standards Technical Working Group 2010-present

    • Invited Member, NSF S2I2 Workshop on Digitizing Collections Organizing Committee, 2010-2011.

    • Invited Member, iPlant GIS Advisory Group, 2011-present

    • Invited Member, Barcode of Life Database Advisory Group, 2011-present

    • Invited Member, Ad-hoc AIBS committee on advancing a national policy voice for evolution and biodiversity 2011-2012.

    • InvitedMember, CONABIO Scientific Advisory Committee 2012-present

    • Invited Member, Art of Life Advisory Board, Missouri Botanic Gardens, 2012-2014

    • Invited Member, DataONE Metadata Working Group, 2012-2014 (2 meetings per month)

    • Invited Member, Advisory Committee, NSF Workshop: Scaling Up Workshop on Continental Scale Population and Community Ecology 2012-2013.

    • Invited Member, Bioiversity Data Journal Advisory Board member 2012-present.

    • Invited Member, Global Names Steering Committee, 2013-present

    • Head of Delegation to GBIF for the VertNet associate participant node, 2013-present

    • Editorial Board, PLOS ONE, Feb. 2014-present

    • Member, NEON Science, Technology & Education Advisory Committee (Sept. 16-present)

    • Interim Co-Chair, NEON Science, Technology & Education Advisory Committee (May 2019-present)

    • Co-Lead Science, Technology & Education Advisory Committee, Broadening Participation suubgroup.

    • Member, Jetstream Advisory Board, July 2016-present

    • Co-Lead, Data Task Force, GEO-BON committee, Sept. 2017-present.

    • Member, Implementation Committee, GEO-BON

    • Judge, GBIF’s Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, Sept. 2017

    • Invited Member, GBIC organizing committee, Feb 2018-July 2018

    • Invited Member, NASA Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting Working Group, Sept. 2018-present.

  • General:

    • Ecological Society of America

    • Society for the Study of Evolution

    • Society for Systematic Biologists

    • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

    • Paleontological Society

    • Taxonomic Database Working Group

    Malacology:

    • American Malacological Society