Waggoner recently received one of Vice President Al Gore's prestigious Hammer Awards for Reinventing Government. The USGS scientist led an interagency team that developed an online taxonomic name database for the identification of biota.
* evening - Ray Herrmann, a USGS physical scientist, will be inducted into AAAS "Fellowship". Herrmann's specialty is watershed research; he has been instrumental in the development and coordination of the USGS' National Park Service Watershed Ecosystems Program. This program supports national and international investigations regarding the nature and protection of watersheds, use on public lands, and furthers the scientific understanding of ecosystems by studying change as a result of natural and human-derived stress.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 3:00-6:00 p.m. - Gladys Cotter, USGS, Office of Biological Informatics and Outreach in Reston, Va., will help direct the AAAS session, Biological Diversity Information Infrastructure Development: Transnational Initiatives, aimed at opening information access to those focused on questions of biological diversity.
Cotter will speak about Access to Biological Diversity Information: Transnational Initiatives. The USGS has taken the lead in establishing the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), a computerized connective linking the wealth of biological information resources available through the Internet.
As the nation's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian
mapping agency, the USGS works in cooperation with more than 2000
organizations across the country to provide reliable, impartial, scientific
information to resource managers, planners and other customers. This
information is gathered in every state by USGS sci
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Contact: Catherine Haecker
Catherine_Haecker@usgs.gov
703-648-4283
United States Geological Survey
13-Feb-1998