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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics (BDEI)

Session Chair: Judy Cushing, The Evergreen State College

Designing and Infrastructure for Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Data, Collaborators and Organizations
K. Baker (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), G. Bowker and H. Karasti (University of California, San Diego)

Event and Process Tagging for Information Integration for the International Gulf of Maine Watershed
K. Beard-Tisdale, J. Kahl, N. Pettigrew, M. Hunter, M. Lutz (University of Maine)

Integrating Radar Remote Sensing of Habitat Structure: A Pilot Project for Biodiversity Informatics
K. Bergen and D. Brown (University of Michigan), E. Gustafson (USDA Forest Service), M. Dobson (University of Michigan and NASA)

Computation and Uncertainty in Ecological Forecasting
J. Clark, P. Agarwal, M. Lavin (Duke University)

Spatial Data Infrastructure for Ecological Research
J. Cushing and N. Nadkarni (The Evergreen State College), L. Delcambre and D. Maier (Oregon Graduate Institute)

A Bioinformatics Platform for Studying Metabolic Functions of Unculturable Microbes
A. Dickerman (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), B. Tyler (University of California at Davis)

Wireless Sensor Networks: From the Laboratory to the Field
P. Flikkema, B. West (Northern Arizona University)

Biodiversity Information Organization using Taxonomy (BIOT)
S. Gauch (University of Kansas)

Toward Spatio-temporal Models of Biogeophysical Fields for Ecological Forecasting
G. Henebry (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), T. Fountain (San Diego Supercomputer Center), J. Chomicki (SUNY Buffalo), K. Ranson (NASA GSFC)

Overcoming Nomenclatural Complications while Searching in a Distributed Database Environment: One Step toward True Interoperability
M. Lane (Academy of Natural Sciences), S. Shattuck (CSIRO Entomology, Canberra)

Visualizing Geo-referenced Data with the Eco Flight Simulator
S. McDonald and R. Stevenson (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Workshop on the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Informatics for the Indian River Lagoon
M. Musavi and H. Ressom (University of Maine), Ross Hinkle (NASA Kennedy), Richard Miller (NASA Stennis)

Community Science for Biodiversity Monitoring
R. Stevenson and R. Morris (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Towards an Operational Semantics of Biological Diversity: Integrating Structure and Function in a Web-Accessible Knowledge Base
F. Villa (University of Vermont), M. Ceroni (University of Maryland)