My 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, I began focused work in biodiversity informatics, first as the content development director for the Animal Diversity Web, and later as research staff at the Human‐Computer Interaction Laboratory (University of Maryland) and eBiquity Lab (University of Maryland Baltimore County). I’ve conducted research on data sharing in ecology and systematics, educational technology, tree and graph visualizations for biodiversity information, and semantic web technologies.

My current interests include social practices in biological data sharing. Plus I’m a backyard moth-blacklighter and fungi-photographer.

The EOL Species Pages Group is based at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. We are responsible for working with the scientific community and citizen enthusiasts to assemble and vet information about all described, living species so that it can be served on EOL pages.