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| Project Title | Principal
Investigator(s) and Institutional Affiliation |
Assembling
the Tree of Life  |
M. Donoghue, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University and J. Cracraft, Dept. of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History (email) |
| Biodiversity
in Deep-sea Chemosynthetic Communities |
Cindy Lee Van Dover, Biology Department, College of William and Mary (email) |
| Biosphere
Resources for Inventorying and Monitoring |
Roger Soles, US State Department (website) |
| Charting
and Documenting the World’s Ants and Social Wasps |
Donat Agosti, American Museum of Natural History (website) |
| DIVA:
Latitudanal gradients of bioidversity in the deep sea of the Atlantic
Ocean |
J. Waegele, Ruht-Universitat Bochum, Lehrstuhl fur Spezielle Zoologie (email, website) |
| Ecoishare
|
M. Collins, World Conservation Monitoring Centre |
| Exploration
and conservation of anchialine faunas |
T. Iliffe, Texas A & M, G. Boxshall, Natural History Museum, UK (email, website) |
| Frogwatch
USA |
Amy Goodstine and Sam Droege, USGS (email, website) |
| Insect@thon
2001-2002: Contributions to Biodiversity Information
Networks |
Joris Komen, National Museum of Namibia (email, website) |
| Inventory
of the caterpillars, their parasitiods, their food plant,
and their gut microbes in a Costa Rican tropical dry forest, cloud
forest and rainforest |
Daniel Janzen, University of Pennsylvania (website) |
| MACROFAUNA: An Endangered Resource in a Changing World |
P. Lavelle, Laboratoire d/Ecologie des Sols Tropicaux, Univ. Paris VI/IRD (email, website) |
| Ocean
Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) |
F. Grassle, Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University (email, website) |
| Ocean
Oasis: A story of the unbreakable bonds between a parched
land, a rich sea, and the people who love them both
|
Michael Hager, San Diego Natural History Museum (website) |
| Prokaryote
survey of major habitats on Earth |
J. Fuhrman, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California (email) |
| SAFRINET
|
Connal Eardley, Plant Protection Research Institute(website, email) |
| Species
2000: Indexing the world's known species |
F.
Bisby, Centre for Plant Diversity and Systematics, University of
Reading (Species 2000 email, website) |
| Survey
of stickleback parasite biodiversity
|
D. Marcogliese, St. Lawrence Centre, Environment Canada, Quebec, Canada. (email, website) |
| Television
Trust for the Environment: Earth Report |
Robert Lamb, TVE (website) |
| WOMAD
Tour: World Music and Dance Concert Tour
|
Ivan Hattingh, WWF-UK (website) |
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| AmphibiaWeb: An information system for amphibian conservation
biology. |
David Wake, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley (email, website) |
| ARKive:
A digital library of endangered species |
Harriet Nimmo, Wildscreen Centre, Bristol, UK (email, website) |
| BIOMARE
- Implementation and Networking of large-scale, long-term
marine biodiversity research in Europe |
Carlo Heip and Herman Hummel, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (website) |
| Biodiversity
Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa (BIOTA AFRICA) |
Norbert Juergens, Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden, University of Hamburg (email, website) |
| Committee
on Recently Extinct Organisms (CREO): A preliminary list
of recently extinct species |
Ian Harrison and Ross MacPhee, American Museum of Natural History (email, website) |
| Declining
Amphibian Populations Task Force (DAPTF) |
Tim Halliday, The Open Univ.; James Hanken, Harvard Univ. (email, website) |
| Detecting
Environmental Change: Science and Society July 16-20,
2001, London |
Terry Parr, Center for Ecology and Hydrology; Rick Battarbee, Env. Change Research Network, Univ. College (website) |
| DIWPA-IBOY
- Biodiversity Assessment Program in the Western Pacific
and Asia Region |
H. Kawanabe, T. Nakashizuka, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (email, website) |
| DYNAMO:
Dynamics of Biodiversity: Ostracods as models in freshwater ecosystems
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Koen Martens, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (email) |
| GROMS:
Global Register of Migratory Species |
K. Riede, Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany (website, email) |
| Impacts
of Biological Invasions on ecosystem function and its
economic valuation |
Mark Lonsdale, CSIRO, Australia (email, website) |
| Recovery
of coral reef biodiversity following bleaching: International
Coral Reef Observation Year |
J. Ogden, Florida Institute of Oceanography, USA (email) & T. Done, Australian Institute of Marine Sciences |
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| Biodiversity:
Its Importance to Human Health |
Eric Chivian, Harvard Medical School; Robert Bos, World Health Organization (email) |
| Biodiversity
911: Saving Life on Earth |
Judy Braus, WWF-US (website) |
| Catalog
of the wild relatives of the world's crops
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V. Heywood, Centre for Plant Diversity and Systematics, School of Plant Sciences, University of Reading, UK (email) |
| FLUXNET :
The metabolic diversity of terrestrial ecosystems
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D. Baldocchi, University of California at Berkeley (website) |
| GLIDE - Global Litter Invertebrate Decomposition Experiment
|
Diana Wall, Colorado State University (email, website) |
| GTOS-NPP:
Global Terrestrial Observing System-Net Primary Production
|
Bob Scholes, CSIR (website) |
| Lost
Worlds: an IMAX film on biodiversity and conservation |
Directed by Bayley Silleck (website) |
| Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment |
Walter Reid, World Resources Institute (website) |
| OUTREACH
- Biodiversity Series - Information for Educators and Communicators
|
James Connor (Contact, Gillian Dorfman) (website) |
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| Project Title | Principal
Investigator(s) and Institutional Affiliation |
| The
African Pollinator Initiative |
Connal Eardley, Plant Protection Research Institute(website, email) |
| Conserving
and Increasing Use of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Species |
Stefano Padulosi, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (email, website) |
| DNA
Banks for endangered species
|
Oliver Ryder, Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, A. McLaren, Wellcome/CRC Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, UK (website) |
| Indigenous
Honeybees in the Himalayas: A Community
Based Approach to Conserving Biodiversity and Increasing Farm Productivity
|
Farooq Ahmad, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (email, website) |
| Integrated
Conservation Biology Curriculum Materials for Tropical Countries
|
James Gibbs, Eleanor Sterling, American Museum of Natural History (email, website) |
| LITUS
- Interactions of biodiversity, productivity and
tourism on sandy beaches |
M. Vincx, University of Gent, Belgium; Jan Marcin Weslawski, Polish Academy of Sciences(website) |
| Sacred
Gifts for a Living Planet |
Martin Palmer, Alliance for Religion and Conservation (website) |
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Last updated December 4, 2002
IBOY took place during 2001 and 2002 and is now completed. Information on the projects, activities and products that took place during IBOY are available on these pages. Many of the projects are still continuing their research and education activities and links to their homepages can be found on the project pages.
For more information on on-going activities of IBOY's parent organization, DIVERSITAS, see http://www.icsu.org/DIVERSITAS
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