Hugh D. Wilson - Web Projects
Active Projects:
Systems for the Digital
Flora of Texas Project (under development)
Crop
Plant Lineage Pollution (commentary)
Spiranthes
parksii - Endangered Orchid of the Texas Post Oak Savannah
Botany
620 (Spring, 2000)
Banner
Image Archive (for the ASPT website)
"Investigation"
page (for the Aggie Bonfire - DUMB
AS DIRT - Homepage)
Teaching:
Botany
328 - Plants and People
Biology
481 - Endangered Plant Species of Texas II
Botany
301 - Taxonomy of Flowering Plants
Botany
485 - Undergraduate Research
Proposals:
American
Society of Plant Taxonomists (overview):
Internet Development and Expression of Community Biodiversity Data (NSF
- withdrawn)
The Vascular Flora of North America - A Digital Inventory (NSF
- declined)
Flora
of Texas Consortium:
Digital
Biodiversity The Flora of Texas Project (THECB-ARP - approved,
November 1999)
Project work during 1999
Projects initiated during 1995-1998, served by the Texas
A&M Center for the Study of Digital Libraries and developed
in collaboration with the Texas
A&M Bioinformatics Working Group with support from the Texas
Higher Education Coordinating Board:
A
Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States
BOTN
328 - Plants and People - Summer, 1998
CalFlora
Database (interface upgrade)
BOTN 201 (Spring,
1998) - Lecture
Note Series - updated for Fall,
1998
BIOL
481 - Endangered/Threatened Plants of Texas - coordinator
BOTN
328 - Plants and People - Fall, 1997
BIOL
481 - Medical Botany II - coordinator
Vascular
Plant Image Gallery - Indexed Query System - full responsibility
ASPT
Membership Directory - Research Interests query system - full responsibility
Original
CyberSedge and prototype
upgrade - full responsibility
CalFlora
Database (Indexed version) - full responsibility for TAMU operations
AAAS/BSA
Symposium - full responsibility
Grass
Image Tracker - full responsibility
ASPT
Publications query system - full responsibility
TAMU
Herbarium Research Voucher query system - full responsibility
Botany
620 - full responsibility
Arkansas
Biodiversity - Vascular Plants - page production, programmed data
Biology
Department Herbarium - full responsibility
Free
Living Cucurbita pepo in the U.S. - full responsibility
Texas
Endemics - data generation, page design/production
American
Society of Plant Taxonomists - page design/production
Flora
of Texas Consortium - page design/production
BIOL
481 - Medical Botany I - coordinator
Grasses
of New Mexico - data translation/preparation for mapping
Grasses
of Louisiana - data translation/preparation for mapping/page prep
Flora2k
System - data translation/selection menu creation/page prep
Projects initiated in 1994-1995, initially
served by the Texas
A&M Institute for Scientific Computation:
Botany
201 - with Jim Manhart and Monique Reed
The
Navasota Flora - with Monique Reed and Jim Manhart
The
Flowering Plant Gateway - programmed HTML generation
Aggie Bonfire - DUMB
AS DIRT - Homepage - full responsibility
Vascular
Plant Image Gallery - programmed 'browse' and family pages
Endangered
species - programmed output from U.S. Fish and Wildlife data (needs
updating)
Initial projects (1994), material (machine-generated
ASCII files) placed in the 'straylight' domain (terminated in 1997) at
the W. M. Keck Center for Genome Informatics:
Herbarium
Specimen Data - Biology Department Herbarium (original files transferred
to
the TAMU CSDL in 1996, current data now available through
the TAMU-BWG
Herbarium
Specimen Browser)
Critical taxa - Texas Organization for Endangered
Species (1993 plant list - a revision now under development at a draft
TOES website [also under development - see 'Data Resources'])
A
Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Texas - with Dr. Stephan Hatch
and
the S. M. Tracy Herbarium - files transferred to the TAMU
CSDL and updated in 1997
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