NSF grant to Rob Guralnick
Rob Guralnick has received an Grant entitled Map of Life: An infrastructure for integrating global species distribution knowledge. This new collaborative research award is from NSF Advances in Biological Informatics and is split between Rob and Walter Jetz at Yale ³Ô¹ÏÍø.Ìý The award amount is $990K over three years, with $531K going to Yale and $459K going to Boulder.
Abstract
Despite hundreds of years of active exploration, human knowledge of the distribution of biodiversity remains very limited. A fundamental factor in this shortcoming is that the majority of direct and indirect information about species’ distributions has not been mobilized and integrated. While researchers can readily access fine-scale environmental data with global coverage, access to integrated species distribution information at validated precision remains elusive. Investigators at Yale ³Ô¹ÏÍø and the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder are awarded a grant to develop an interactive, online species distribution workbench and knowledge-base – called the ‘Map of Life’ - as the fundamental mechanism for documentation, integration, and advance of human biodiversity distribution knowledge.
Congratulations to Rob!