Public release date: 15-Feb-2002 Contact: Diana Wall
International Biodiversity Observation Year Information
technology provides biologists with new tools for biodiversity
conservation Information Technology, or IT, is spurring a
revolution in biodiversity research that can deliver a more
complete view of the world and help conserve species, according
to six biologists who will speak today at American Association
for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting and Science
Innovation Exposition in Boston, MA. “Biodiversity research
today uses the latest IT as much as the traditional butterfly
nets and flower presses”, said Diana Wall, organizer of the
symposium and soil ecologist at Colorado State University, in an
interview in advance of the symposium. “It has given us the
ability to draw on multiple pieces of information from across
the world.” Each of the speakers at the symposium “Biodiversity
Science and Global Research: the International Biodiversity
Observation Year” leads an international research projec