[seek-taxon] Taxon Working Group Membership

[Kennedy, Jessie]

Hi Folks

Regarding the idea of having Martin Pullan as a member of the Taxon Working
Group I would be very much in favour and would support the idea. I believe
Martin is going to involved in the Taxonomic Names sub-group of TDWG and his
on-going work on Prometheus and other Taxonomic projects (including a new EU
one with many other groups) will be very useful.

Jessie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beach, James H [mailto:beach at ku.edu]
> Sent: 08 September 2003 21:32
> To: seek-taxon at ecoinformatics.org
> Subject: [seek-taxon] Taxon Working Group Membership
> 
> 
> 
> Seek Taxon WG members:
> 
> I met in Edinburgh two weeks ago with Jessie Kennedy and one of her
> collaborators Dr. Martin Pullan from the Royal Botanical 
> Garden, Edinburgh.
> 
> It struck me after spending a few hours with them, that 
> Martin, being the
> primary biologist/taxonomist  on the Prometheus collaboration 
> would be an
> excellent candidate for the SEEK Taxon WG.  He has clearly thought
> critically about the needs of the biological community and on taxon
> conceptualization issues as a practicing taxonomist.  
> 
> In talking with SEEK Exec Comm and with Bill Michener who 
> holds the purse
> strings on the travel funds, there was no objection to the 
> possibility of
> adding a new member from an administrative perspective.
> 
> Here are a few URLs for reference.  Of course Jessie, is our 
> best referee
> having worked with Martin on their joint projects.
> 
> http://www.rbge.org.uk/rbge/web/science/research/biodiversity/
prometh.jsp

http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~prometheus/prometheus_1/publications/ntct.htm

Let me know on the list, or privately if you like, if you have any thoughts
on this suggestion.

I will continue to invite Paula Huddleston and Hannu Saarenmaa as WG members
to our functions, but judging by their lack of response to our conference
call calls, they may be too busy to participate fully in the WG as members,
which they will remain.  We'll continue to invite them.


Many thanks,

Jim B.




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