Cynthia Parr

Biography:

  • Earned a B.S from Cornell University and a PhD in biology from the University of Michigan.
  • Based at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History.
  • She is responsible for working with the scientific community and the general public to assemble vet information about all 1.9 million known species .
  • Her biological interests include bioacoustics and the evolution of social behavior in birds, community ecology, and systematics.
  • Following postdoctoral work at Seoul National University in South Korea, she began focused work in biodiversity informatics, first as the Content Development Director for the Animal Diversity Web (http://www.animaldiversity.org), and later as Research staff at the Human‐Computer Interaction Laboratory (University of Maryland) and eBiquity Lab (University of Maryland Baltimore County).
  • She has conducted research on data sharing in ecology and systematics, educational technology, tree and graph visualizations for biodiversity information, and semantic web technologies.
  • Her current interests include social practices in biological data sharing.


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