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Dr. Nicolas BAILLY

Biodiversity Informatics Scientist & Collection Manager (UBC Fish Collection)

(and Institute of Oceans and Fisheries)

Quick Info
Work Location

Biodiversity Research Centre Bldg, Room 014
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver British Columbia V6T 1Z4
Canada

Nationality
France
Email(s)
Profile URL
Persistent Digital Identifiers (UIDs)
Highest Degree
PhD
Job Type
Research
Data Management
Information Management & Library
Natural Resource Management
Subject Area
Biological Oceanography
Marine Ecology
Limnology
Activities
Quantitative Aquatics (Q-quatics) 2017-

- Taxonomy Coordinator

University of British Columbia 2018-
- Beaty Biodiversity Museum: Curatorial Assistant of the UBC Fish Collection
- Institute of Oceans and Fisheries: Biodiversity Informatics Scientist

Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), UNESCO / IOC / IODE

- MedOBIS RON Responsible. 2015-2017

- Fishes TON Responsible. 2005-

- Collaboration OBIS - AquaMaps, FishBase, SeaLifeBase.
- Member of the Steering Group


LifeWatchGreece, Hellenic Center for Marine Research 2014-2016

- GTIS, SpeLog: Greek Taxonomic Information System Data Manager
- MedOBIS
- EMODnet


FishBase, Q-quatics

- Data management for taxonomy, nomenclature, and distribution.

- FIshes OBIS Node
- Collaboration FishBase - Catalog of Fishes (CofF) and FishWisePro.

- Collaborations with other initiatives: IUCN; Barcode of Life; GenBank; ITIS; WoRMS; OBIS; FADA.



SeaLifeBase, Q-quatics

- Scientific Adviser.

- Quality control on taxonomy, nomenclature and distribution.

- Collaboration SeaLifeBase - WoRMS.



Catalogue of Life (COL), Q-quatics

- Member 2005- and Co-Chair of the Global Team 2015-
- Chair of the Taxonomy Group. 2015-2021
- Co-editor of the Annual Checklist.


World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
- Fish Taxonomic Editor 2007-
- WoRCS Thematic Editor (World Register of marine Cave Species) 2015-
- Member of the Steering Committee 2015-


Previous activities

WorldFish 2005-2014

- Project Leader of the Research Data Management Project.

- Collaboration ReefBase - FishBase - SeaLifeBase.

- Delegate for WorldFish to the FishBase Consortium.

- European projects: 4D4Life, i4Life, BioFresh, D4Science, D4Science-II, iMarine, EU BON.



Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) - Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie - Départment de Systématique 1992-2005

- Databases on fish and biodiversity.

- European projects: ERMS, ENHSIN, FaEu, BioCASE, ENBI.








Skills
Biodiversity informatics

Fish taxonomy and systematics

Marine ecology and biology

Scientific Diving
Working language(s)
English
Citation(s)
Comment(s)
Other language: French, Portuguese.
Created: 1997-08-19 | Last Updated: 2023-01-20


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