Fourth Herpnet Georeferencing Workshop

Fourth HerpNET Georeferencing Workshop

Wednesday, 5 October 2005

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

University of California, Berkeley

Schedule:

8:30-9:00 Coffee Cart and Continental Breakfast

Introductions and Updates on HerpNET: Grinnell-Miller Library, 3101 VLSB

9:00 Welcome from David Wake and Introductions

9:10 Current Progress of HerpNET: Portal, Mapping and Georeferencing – Carol Spencer

9:30 Repatriation of Georeferenced Data and Establishment of DiGIR providers – Rob Gales

9:45 Discussion

Georeferencing Training and Exercises: IB Computer Room, 3056 VLSB

10:00 Introduction: Georeferencing Using the MaNIS/HerpNET Method

Online Resources and Terrain Navigator

Begin Exercises

12:00 Lunch at Women’s Faculty Club

1:15 DIVA-GIS: Mapping Foreign Localities

Finish Exercises

3:30 Coffee Break – Grinnell- Miller Library

Georeferencing Applications – Grinnell-Miller Library

4:00 Gary Shugart –“Georeferencing From A Curatorial Perspective”

4:12 Tom Giermakowski – “Increasing the Value Of Regional Collections Through Collaborative Efforts: Herpetology of New Mexico Online”

4:24 Michelle Koo – “Using Georeferenced Specimen Data: Research Examples”

4:36 Aaron Steele – “DiGIR Mapper”

4:48 John Wieczorek – “BioGeomancer”

5:00 Questions and Discussion

5:30 Concluding Remarks

7:00 Dinner at Caffe Venezia, 1799 University Ave (at Grant), Berkeley

Participants:

Brigham Young University

Jenny PramukJack Sites, Jr.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Jack SitesProfessor, Dept. of Integrative Biology

Martha Yoke

Graduate Student, Lab of Jack Sites

California Academy of Sciences

Stanley BlumHeather Constable

Research Information ManagerHerpNET Georeferencer

Michelle KooLindsay Upshaw

Biogeographic Systems ManagerHerpNET Georeferencer

Jens Vindum

Senior Collections Manager, Department of Herpetology

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Stephen Rogers

Collection Manager, Section of Amphibians and Reptiles

Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates

Charles Dardia

Collections Manager

Los Angeles County Museum (Natural History Museum)

Rick Feeney

Collection Manager, Fishes/Herpetology

McGill University, Montreal

Redpath Museum

Sara Lourie

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of David Green

Milwaukee Public Museum

Gary Casper

Collections Manager, Herpetology and Ichthyology

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Andre Ngo

Graduate Student, Lab of Robert Murphy

University of Arizona

Phil Rosen

Assistant Research Specialist

University of California, Berkeley

Environmental Science and Policy Management

Alison Cameron

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Claire Kremen

University of California, Berkeley - Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Craig MoritzCarol Spencer

Director, MVZHerpNET Coordinator

Aaron SteeleDavid Vieites

Programmer/Analyst IIIPostdoctoral Fellow, Wake Lab

David Wake John Wieczorek

HerpNET Co-Principal InvestigatorProgrammer/Analyst IV

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History

Mariko Kageyama

Collections Manager, Vertebrate Zoology Section

University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History

Kenney Krysko

Senior Biological Scientist

University of Kansas

Robert GalesJeet Sukumaran

HerpNET Database SpecialistPh.D. Student, Lab of Rafe Brown

University of Louisiana – Monroe, Museum of Natural History

John CarrFrank Pezold

Associate Professor, Department of BiologyDirector and Curator of Zoology

University of Minnesota

J.F. Bell Museum

Tony Gamble

Graduate Student and Collections Manager

University of New Mexico

Museum of Southwestern Biology

Division of Amphibians and Reptiles

Tom GiermakowskiHoward Snell

Collection ManagerCurator and Professor

University of Puget Sound – James Slater Museum

Gary Shugart

Curator of Collections

University of Texas at Austin

Texas Natural History Collections (Texas Memorial Museum)

David CannatellaTravis LaDuc

Curator of Herpetology and Associate ProfessorAssistant Curator of Herpetology