The Ebbe Nielsen Prize
The GBIF Governing Board is
proud to present the winner of the Ebbe Nielsen Prize of 2002: Dr Nozomi Ytow, Assistant
Professor at the University of Tsukuba in Japan.
Dr. Ytow was awarded the Prize for the development of the
Nomencurator, a new database model for tracking scientific names, and how our
conception and use of the names change through time. This new model was
described in the following paper:
Ytow N., Morse
D. R. and Roberts D.McL D. (2001)
Nomencurator: a nomenclatural history model to handle multiple taxonomic views.
Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society, 73: 81-98
This Prize honors the memory of Ebbe Nielsen and is awarded annually to
a promising researcher (normally within five years of the receipt of his/her
Ph.D.) who is combining biosystematics and biological diversity informatics
research that supports the objectives of GBIF in an exciting and novel way. The
Prize of US $35,000 is awarded to allow the recipient to engage in such research
to biodiversity outside his/her country of residence for a period of 3-6 months.
However, the use of the funds will be at the discretion of the recipient.
To read about Ebbe Nielsen's life, please follow this link
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