Accelerating the Pace of Scientific Discovery!
Alta BudenThe Biodiversity Synthesis Center (BioSynC) is located in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Our charter goal is to generate new insight into life’s diversity, evolution, distribution and conservation. Integrating diverse information sources empowers people to generate new questions, insights and discoveries. We do this by supporting and hosting scientific meetings to explore topics in biodiversity, such as taxonomy, biogeography, phylogenetics, and bioinformatics. Meetings are proposed by the scientific community to assemble novel and complimentary groups of people addressing central questions in biodiversity. Our task is to help to recruit experts in biodiversity, computer science, and conservation to the Encyclopedia of Life, and in this way we act as a main liaison between the EOL and both the scientific and academic communities.
We are concerned not only with what goes into the EOL, but with what could potentially come out of it. The possible applications for newly pooled data made easily accessible by the EOL are numerous and multifaceted. From creating new ways to visualize the evolutionary tree on the internet, to furthering the study of underrepresented and popularly unknown species, our hope is to have impact on the scientific community contributing to the EOL, the daily lives of the greater global citizenry, and the fight to conserve biodiversity on our planet.
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