Author Archives: Rob

About Rob

Three "B's" of importance: biodiversity, bikes and bunnies. I get to express these "B's" in neat ways --- I bike to a job at the University of Colorado where I have a split appointment as Curator of Zoology and Associate Professor. Along with caretaking collections, I also have a small zoo at home, filled with two disapproving bunnies.

What gets linked to global unique identifiers (GUIDs) in natural history collections digitization?

Posted on January 28, 2013

Co-written with David Bloom. For as long as explorers have been collecting specimens and bringing them back to museums, collection managers and museum staff have been assigning unique (well, more or less unique, with a margin for human error) numbers … Continue reading →

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Field Notes Challenge Part 3: New Year’s Digital Resolutions

Posted on January 6, 2012

“Resolution” is a word with many meanings. It can refer to the granularity of a digital image, or the solution to a problem, or a firm decision to do or not do something.  The Carefree Cogitation Coalition here at So … Continue reading →

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An Ode to Founders and a Field Notes Challenge: Part 1

Posted on November 28, 2011

Junius Henderson was the founder and first curator of the University of Colorado (CU) Museum of Natural History where Rob works.  Because Rob is the Invertebrate Curator of Zoology, and his training is in malacology (not “bad ecology” or “evil” … Continue reading →

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