Tony Rees
@tonyrees49
Thoughts from Rutgers SEBS dean Bob Goodman on the passing of Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences founding director Fred Grassle
Very sorry to hear this. Fred was the instigator of OBIS and extremely helpful to my joining OBIS teams over the first ten years of its existence. To him I owe the pleasure of many trips to Rutgers and elsewhere to attend OBIS meetings and meet with a wide range of colleagues. x.com/OBISNetwork/st…
In memoriam Fred Grassle: Fred Grassle (centre) with the OBIS team plus myself, Rutgers, June 2004
Phil Gilmartin University of Leeds Rockefeller University I did my Ph.D. in electron microscopy in that building, 1975-78 under Prof. Gordon Leedale, who was brought by Prof. Manton to Leeds in the late 1950s I think... mind you, the rear of the building (as in your photo) was not quite so smart back then - more like this...
Phil Gilmartin University of Leeds Rockefeller University 3 electron microscopes in the basement in my time - including Prof. Manton's original Elmiskop 1 (1950s vintage) which I had the pleasure of using!
Phil Gilmartin University of Leeds Rockefeller University Of course these buildings were not designed to be seen from the back (like the above) but from the front as per this photo - 3 late Georgian town houses subsequently knocked together, the middle one losing its front entrance! A much better look...
LifeWatch LifeWatch VLIZ Taxonomic Backbone web-services now allow fuzzy matching on Catalogue of Life using the Tony Rees TAXAMATCH algorithm marinespecies.org/news.php?p=sho…
Thanks in the main to Jesse Ausubel (CoML, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, etc.) - I have become acquainted with the concept of the "macroscope" - a method to view the "whole earth" (or portions thereof) - just created a new WP article here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroscop… - feedback welcome.
@schatzimanolis GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif URL is demo.gbif.org in case you did not know!
