NAME
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John R. Busby
Visiting Scientist - Bioinformatics
B.Sc. (Hons) 1971, M.Sc. 1973, Monash University
Ph.D. 1976, University of Alberta
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CONTACT
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Email: John.Busbycsiro.au Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research
CSIRO Plant Industry
GPO Box 1600
Canberra ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA
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AREA OF EXPERTISE
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Planning and facilitating the development of multi-agency information networks at national and global scales. The focus to date has been on biodiversity and other environmental information for policy development, decision support, research and public education.
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PREVIOUS PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
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- General Manager of the Australian Government’s Office of Spatial Data Management
- Program Manager, Biodiversity Conservation Information System, an initiative of IUCN—the World Conservation Union
- contractor to OECD to draft the Memorandum of Understanding for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- contractor to the European Environment Agency on the European Environment Information and Observation NETwork (EIONET)
- contractor to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on ECOLEX initiative to provide global access to information on environmental law, a joint project of UNEP and IUCN
- contractor to the US Dept of Interior to draft Recommendations for the Organization and Coordination of the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN)
- contractor to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to build a prototype of the Clearing-house Mechanism. Member of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Clearing-house Mechanism to the CBD Secretariat
- team leader with the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) and Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN)
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CURRENT
PROJECTS
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Mangrove Project: collating biodiversity and related environmental information on Australia’s mangrove and salt marsh ecosystems
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