Judith Bayard Cushing, Nalini Nadkarni Keri Healy, Erik Ordway, Lois Delcambre, and Dave Maier – Historically, ecologists have collected and stored data in individualist ways, making data sharing among collaborators and subsequent data mining difficult.
James W. Brunt, Peter McCartney, Karen Baker, and Susan G. Stafford – Emerging information technologies allow new exploration into tools for the management and use of information that solve problems for ecologists and create new and innovative lines of scientific inquiry. Collaborative, multi-disciplinary research programs to facilitate these new lines of inquiry have produced a need for scientific information systems that communicate data, information, and knowledge across spatial, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries.
