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IBOY Satellite Projects

The IBOY Satellite Projects are a diverse collection of research, informatics, and education and outreach projects that address the questions:

1. What biodiversity do we have and where is it?

2. How is it changing?

3. What goods and services does it provide?

4. How can we conserve biodiversity?

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What biodiversity do we have and where is it?
Project Title	Principal Investigator(s) and Institutional Affiliation
Amazonia Landscape Mapping and Biodiversity Estimation Using Remote Sensing and Local Communities Knowledge and Know-How	Luigi Fabbro, Associação Amazônia (email, website)
The Avila National Park in Bloom	Federico Alberto Prieto Martinez, Espacio Interactivo C.A. (email)
Biodiversity of Arthropods from the Laurissilva of the Azores (BALA)	Paulo A.V. Borges, Universidade does Azores (email)
Biodiversity Portrait of the St. Lawrence	Jean-Luc DesGranges, Environment Canada (email, website)
BIOPAT: Biodiversity of Freshwater Fishes in Patagonia	Claudio Baigun, Centro Nacional Patagonico (email)
Canadian Biodiversity Information Network	Guy Rochon, Environment Canada (email, website)
Capacity Building of Community Organizations for Biodiversity Monitoring in Himachal Pradesh, Western Himalayas	Virinder Sharma, Department for International Development (DFID) India (email)
Central Coast Flora Project (CENCO)	Dieter Wilken, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (email)
Distribution and Diversity of Arboreal Microarthropods in Tropical Forest Canopies	Neville Winchester, University of Victoria (email, website)
Evaluation of Wild Life Habitats in the Proposed Amarkantak Bioshpere Reserve	R. J. Rao, Jiwaji University (email, website)
Flora and Fauna of Bass Strait Coasts and Islands	Stephen Harris, Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment Tasmania (email)
Garden BirdWatch	Andrew Cannon, British Trust for Ornithology (email, website)
HBMS: Hungarian Biodiversity Monitoring System	Katalin Török, National Authority for Nature Conservation Ministry for Environment Hungary (email, website)
Howler Monkeys of Cuero y Salado	Kymberley Anne Snarr, University of Toronto (email)
Inventory of Cloud Forests in Maquipucuna, Ecuador	Grady Webster, University of California Davis Herbarium (email)
Invertebrate Diversity of Southwestern Australian Reefs	Mat Vanderklift, The University of Western Australia (email)
IOBA: Indian Ocean Biodiversity Assessment	Justin Gerlach, The Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles (email, website)
Mediterranean Flora of Central Chile: Protection Status and Protection Needs	Mary T.K. Arroyo, University of Chile (email)
Molecular Studies of Marine Biodiversity (MSMB) on the Indian River Lagoon, Florida and Andros Island, Bahamas	Jose Lopez, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (email, website)
National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)	Gladys Cotter, U.S. Geological Survey (email, website)
National Inventory on Habitat and Taxa	Cosme Morillo, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Spain (email, website)
New Zealand Birds	Narena Olliver (email, website)
Pacific Northwest Sea Stack Cryptogams	Stephen Jessup, Southern Oregon University Herbarium (email, website)
Pernambuco Biodiversity Assessment and Atlas	Alexandrina Sobreira de Moura, Governo de Pernambuco Secretariat for Science, Technology and Environment (email, website)
Survey of Threatened and Rare Flora in Eastern Ghats	Surya N. Reddy, Grameena Vikas Samithi (email)
Tasmanian Earthworms	Rob Blakemore (email)
USGS Gap Analysis Program	Kevin Gergely, Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Resources,University of Idaho (email, website)
Venezuelan Guayana Nature in the Caroní River Parks	Federico Alberto Prieto Martinez, Espacio Interactivo C.A. (email)

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How is biodiversity changing?
Project Title	Principal Investigator(s) and Insitutional Affliation
Coral Reefs and Mangroves: Modeling and Visualization	Eric Wolanski, Australian Institute of Marine Science (email, website)
Mt. Weld Altitudinal Transect	Dick Bashford, Forestry Tasmania (email, website)
Present State of Plant Biodiversity of the Danube Inferior Basin	Aurel Popescu, Institute of Biology Romania
Satellite Tracking of Green Turtles in the Gulf of Mexico	Michelle Kinzel, Oceanic Resource Foundation (email, website)

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What goods and services does biodiversity provide?
Project Title	Principal Investigator(s) and Institutional Affiliation
Aquatic Fauna of the Paraná River System	Carolina Noreña Janssen, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (email)
Biological Screening of Marine Algae of the Indian Coast	A. Jaswanth, Periyar College of Pharmaceutical Scieces for Girls (email)
Collection, Evaluation, Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agro-Biodiversity	Shafqat Farooq, Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (email)
Faunal Biodiversity Values of Restored Rainforest	Carla Catteral, Griffith University (email)
Monitoring Biodiversity and the Traditional Health Care System “A Pilot Project of Satpura Hills" (Botanist Paradise of India)	R. Sugandhi, People for Animals (email)
Spatial Diversity of Soil Biota and Mineralization Processes in Grassland Ecosystems	Joanna Petal Figielska, Institute of Ecology, Polish Academy of Sciences (email)

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How can we conserve biodiversity?
Project Title	Principal Investigator(s) and Institutional Affiliation
Amazonia Landscape Mapping and Biodiversity Estimation Using Remote Sensing and Local Communities Knowledge and Know-How	Luigi Fabbro, Associação Amazônia (email, website)
Animal Diversity Web	Cynthia Sims Parr, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (email, website)
Backyard Biodiversity Day	Virginia Purchon, Action for Biology in Education (email, website)
Biodiversity Fair	Janet Moseley, The National Botanic Garden of Wales (email, website)
Community Involvement in Adaptive Research and Wildlife Management	Hetherwick G. Msiska, Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve
Conservation of Kanha Tiger Reserve Biodiversity through Ex-situ Cultivation of Non-timber Forest Products and Empowerment of Women through Traditional System of Medicine	R. Sugandhi, People for Animals (email)
Cousin Island Special Reserve	Nirmal Shah, BirdLife Seychelles (email)
The Crosby Arboretum, Mississippi State University Extension	Robert F. Brzuszek (email, website)
Ecoparque - An environMENTAL Production	Michael Bedar, environMENTAL Productions (email, website)
ENV200Y: Assessing Global Change	Ann Zimmerman, University of Toronto (email, website)
FIFI, The International Film Festival on Insects 2001	Guy Pinault, Office Pour l’Information Éco-Entomologique du Languedoc-Roussillon (OPIE-LR) (email, website)
Floristic Diversity of Bolivia - From Collection to Cognition and Conservation	Pierre Ibisch, Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza Noel Kempff (FAN) (email)
Landcsape Linkages to Spatial Patterns in the Diversity of Fishes - A Key for Planning Marine Reserves	Peter Auster, University of Connecticut (email, website)
Management of Maliau Basin Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia	Hans Skotte Moeller, Maliau Basin Conservation Area Project (email, website)
Management of Seychelles Avian Ecosystems	Nirmal Shah, BirdLife Seychelles (email)
Political Economy of Biodiversity Conservation	Brian Czech, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (email, website)
Project to Survey and Monitor Biodiversity of Cultural Forest in North-Eastern Thailand	Usa Klinhom, Walai Rukhavej Botanical Institute Mahasarakham University Website (email, website)
Representative Areas Program (RAP) - Protecting the Biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef	Jon Day, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (email, website)
Stream Biodiversity Monitoring Training Center	William McLarney, ANAI, Inc. (email)
Sustaining Nepalese Mountain Economy and Environment through Conservation and Proper Utilization of Biodiversity	Punya Prasad Regmi, Society for Highland Development Nepal (SHID, Nepal) (email)
Virtual School or Biodiversity	Peter M.C. Davies, University of Nottingham (email, website)
Volunteer Data Validation Project (VDVP)	Christina Buesching, Earthwatch Institute, Europe (email)

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