Links to my work

Websites I've developed

The BioDiversity Institute: www.bdi.org
An interactive field guide to the birds of North America.

Pine Spring Civic Association: www.pinespring.org
Community homeowners' association site.

I have created additional sites, but they are accessible only by staff members within their respective organizations.

The Nature Conservancy & the Natural Heritage Network

I served as the national Director of Conservation Systems for The Nature Conservancy from 1987 to 1994. Under my supervision, my department developed the Biological and Conservation Data System (BCD), which is a distributed database application used for evaluating the status of species of concern. The BCD was eventually installed in 300+ locations.

Our work won international recognition and was honored with the prestigious Computerworld Smithsonian Award for the category of Environment, Energy and Agriculture.

There are extensive references to the BCD on the web, as shown in this Google search.

The collective usership of the BCD is known as the "Natural Heritage Network", or more recently, the "NatureServe Network". In addition to The Nature Conservancy, the network includes offices in all fifty U.S. state governments, all Canadian provinces, and various countries in Latin America. The technical support role for the Natural Heritage Network was transferred from The Nature Conservancy to a new organization, NatureServe, in 1999. I was a founding board member of NatureServe when it was created in 1994 under its original name of the Association for Biodiversity Information, and I created the organization's original website. The current NatureServe website is not of my creation, but the voluminous species data that is available through that site is the very information that is supplied and managed by the distributed users of the BCD.

Other

As an independent database application developer under contract to The Nature Conservancy, I created the "Plots" vegetation monitoring system. This is an MS Access application which is being deployed in units of the National Park System, the NatureServe network, and other agencies involved in ecological monitoring. The application is available for public download from the USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) site here.