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Joel Cracraft American Museum of Natural History Chair, Division of Vertebrate Zoology Curator-in-Charge, Department of Ornithology Academic affiliations: RGGS (AMNH), Columbia University (EEEB), CUNY (Graduate Program). Research interests Avian phylogenetics Biogeography
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Joel Cracraft American Museum of Natural History Chair, Division of Vertebrate Zoology Curator-in-Charge, Department of Ornithology Academic affiliations: RGGS (AMNH), Columbia University (EEEB), CUNY (Graduate Program)
Research interests Avian phylogenetics Biogeography Speciation analysis Diversification Ontology interests (the what's out there? kind) Species Homology
Paula's questions 1. An ontology consumer As a contributor (taxa, species) 2. Must have ontology/ontologies straight to do science and communicate 3. Tools: not a lot formally (character databases) 4. Roadblocks: ontology itself (few take it seriously, i.e., species), complexiy of phenotype (& homology) 5. Vision: people adopt phylospecies (for Brent) We have an ontology table for phenotypic characters across birds 6. Collaborators: avian morphological community