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        Internet Development and Expression of Community Biodiversity Data (NSF - withdrawn)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


    Updated: 20 May 2000 - Return