The GSAP-NHC Task Group is under the chairmanship of Dr. Walter Berendsohn, Director and Professor, Department of Biodiversity Informatics and Laboratories, Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin.

Members of the Task Group are:

• Dr. Malcolm Scoble, Natural History Museum, London, UK
• Dr. James Macklin, Harvard University Hertbaria, Cambridge, USA
• Dr. Arturo Arino, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
• Dr. Sven Kullander, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
• Dr. M. Sanjappa, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkatta, India
• Dr. Penny Bernets, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
• Dr. Michelle Hamer, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
• Dr. Tsuyoshi Hosoya, The National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan
• Dr. Roger Baird, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
• Dr. Thierry Bourgoin, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
• Ms. Angela Suarez-Mayorga, Alexander von Humboldt Biodiversity Research Institute, Colombia

The GSAP-NHC exercise will begin during the 4th quarter of 2008. The plan will be presented to the GBIF Governing Board in November 2008, and draft recommendations will be presented to the GBIF Governing Board in November 2009, with the final report being made available by February 2010. The final report on the GSAP-NHC will provide a framework identifying overarching issues, including specific recommendations for the execution of the plan.

The Task Group will work closely with natural history societies, major institutions, and standards bodies and multilateral initiatives.

Vishwas Chavan is the GBIF Secretariat point of contact for the Task Group.