Resume

• 2009

  Organization for Tropical Studies

  COLCIENCIAS

  Tucson

  Arizona

  Support of education

  research and service for the collection

  dissemination

  interpretation

  use and preservation of information in society including the public sector

  academic sector and the government sector.

  Director

  School of Information (previously School of Information Resources and Library Science)

  The University of Arizona

  More time for research now. Working on the Internet of Wild Things and Scientometrics related to scientific data production

  dissemination

  utilization and preservation.

  University of Arizona

  School of Information

  The Biodiversity Group 501(c)(3)

  Tucson

  Arizona Area

  The Biodiversity Group is an international team of wildlife biologists

  educators

  and photographers dedicated to preserving the smaller majority of animal life on Earth. Rooted in the science of ecology

  we illuminate little known communities of animals in shrinking wild places. Our photography shares beauty

  value

  and scientific information to a worldwide audience through the camera-eye. And by fostering local citizen-science

  we empower people with the experiences

  skills

  and tools to steward the rich ecosystems that surround and sustain them. Our ultimate goal is to facilitate informed management decisions by people

  governments

  and land preservation organizations to keep incredible biological landscapes intact for future generations. http://www.biodiversitygroup.org/

  Member Board of Directors

  Ann Arbor

  Michigan

  http://sead-data.net/ Sustainability science is a new and growing area of research that focuses on interactions between nature and human activities. These interactions are complex

  and knowledge about them is important for guiding how government

  industry

  and individuals should plan for and respond to environmental and social change.\n\nUnderstanding fundamental principles for sustainable societies requires access to large amounts of data on natural phenomena

  human behavior

  and economics. Currently

  these data are difficult to find

  obtain

  and use because people from disciplines across the natural and social sciences collect

  describe and store their data in many different ways.\n\nThese data could have significant value if it was possible to connect data collectors with potential users of data and if it was easy for individuals to search for

  aggregate

  and maintain valuable data for the long term.\n\nTo address these problems

  the University of Michigan and its partners at Indiana University

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  and the University of Illinois will work with sustainability scientists to develop a system for managing and sharing their data.

  Member of Advisory Board

  SEAD: Sustainable Environment –Actionable Data

  Costa Rica

  http://www.ots.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=860&Itemid=291

  Science Committee Member

  Organization for Tropical Studies

  COLCIENCIAS

• 2006

  JRS Biodiversity Foundation

  The National Science Foundation

  University of Arizona

  University of Arizona

  School of Information

  The Biodiversity Group 501(c)(3)

  SEAD: Sustainable Environment –Actionable Data

  DataNet Federation Consortium

  The Foundation defined a mission within the field of biodiversity:\nTo enhance knowledge and promote the understanding of biological diversity for the benefit and sustainability of life on earth. (http://www.jrsbdf.org/)

  JRS Biodiversity Foundation

• 1998

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Board of Directors

  https://tropicalstudies.org/ The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) is a non-profit consortium of nearly sixty universities

  colleges

  and research institutions worldwide

  with operations in three countries and research stations and education programs in Costa Rica and South Africa. For the last half century OTS has been the world’s leading institution in the study of tropical biology

  with more than 360 courses in tropical ecology

  conservation and global health and over 8000 students trained

  including many of the world’s leading tropical ecologists.\n\nOur purpose is to sustain our tropical ecosystems by driving scientific discovery and knowledge

  by enriching human perception of nature and by enhancing worldwide policy actions in the tropics.

  Organization for Tropical Studies

  DataNet Federation Consortium

  Chapel Hill

  NC

  Collaboration Environments for Data Driven Science\n\nMajor science and engineering initiatives are dependent upon massive data collections that comprise observational data

  experimental data

  simulation data

  and engineering data. To support science and engineering collaborations

  a policy-driven national data management infrastructure is being implemented. The prototype addresses both the life cycle of science and engineering data and the sustainability of data collections and repositories over time

  across changes in technology and usage. http://datafed.org/

  Advisory Board Member

  The National Science Foundation

  University of Arizona

  Tucson

  Arizona Area

  After 9 years stepped down as Director so that I can do more research.

  Associate Professor

  University of Arizona

• 1991

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Information Science

  University of Pittsburgh

• 1976

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

  PsychoBiology

  University of Pittsburgh

• Bioinformatics

  Grant Writing

  Biology

  Metadata

  Biodiversity

  Library Science

  Machine Learning

  Information Retrieval

  Digital Libraries

  Science

  Informatics

  Text Mining

  Taxonomy

  Library

  Ecology

  Computational Biology

  Heidorn

  Bryan