[seek-taxon] bats

[Beach, James H]

Deana 

Could you ask Nico about the status of the bat data?  He has offered to
work with the bat data for now.  This sounds like an interesting
possibility.  I am all in favor of it and will be happy to help.  I am
on my way out the door for Africa, back on the 16th.  We have not been
in contact with Kate since our original interaction last year, but as
far as I know she is still willing to help.  I will also copy this to
seek taxon so that they can fill in while I am gone.

Jim



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James H. Beach
Biodiversity Research Center
University of Kansas
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Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Deana Pennington [mailto:dpennington at lternet.edu] 
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:16 AM
To: Beach, James H
Cc: Mark Schildhauer; Matt Jones
Subject: bats

Jim,

What is the status of the bat idea?  I think I heard you mention on an
exec call that you are getting ready to work on them.  Last I heard,
Nico had recruited Kate Jones to work with us on the taxonomy of bats,
and I talked with her about the ENM workflow, which is generally
applicable to some of the work she does.  However, I told her we didn't
have any resources to modify that workflow for her use.  Turns out a
soon-to-be PhD student here at UNM is interested in doing ENM of bats,
and is going after NASA funding to do it (incorporating real time
satellite data into the approach, which is NASA's interest).  They are
willing to write in funding for a workflow developer who could modify
the mammal workflow to what is needed.  Seems like an opportunity to get
Kate what she wanted and get the mammal workflow re-used.  However, I
haven't heard anything about Kate for quite awhile, and I know she
relocated to the UK.  Is she still the one who will be working with you
on bats? 

Deana

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