Congratulations and thank you for your efforts, Geoff!
Greetings,
Barbara
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Barbara Mikac
Professor of Bology, microbiology and healthcare control
Institute of Higher Education "Ettore Majorana"
Technical and technological Institute - Healthcare biotechnologies
Via Caselle 26
40068 San Lazzaro di Savena
Bologna
Italy
On 22 May 2018 at 07:59, Simon, CA, Dr [csimon from sun.ac.za] <CSIMON from sun.ac.za>
wrote:
> Hi Geoff
>> I'd like to add on to all the other congratulations that have come through
> these last few days. You and the other editors are doing an amazing job
> that has made all of our lives so much easier.
>> Thank you very much
> Carol
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu <annelida-bounces from oat.bio.> indiana.edu> On Behalf Of Geoff Read
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 1:18 AM
> To: annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.edu> Subject: RE: [Annelida] congratulations Geoff!
>> Thanks Nancy,
>> It’s great to get a response like that. The idea is that we put up the
> information and explanatory notes, and users can take it as they wish,
> disagree if they have reason to, and let us know if it is wrong, but most
> importantly usually only one person needs to do the time-consuming delving
> into the history and sorting out the anomalies. And everyone, including
> the editors, benefit if the publications are stored at WoRMS or linked
> direct to the BHL online pages, and original descriptions can be read at a
> click away. There’s still a lot more to do, but we are making progress.
>> I don’t do this alone, but with several current and past editors of
> particular families, including Harry ten Hove who was there even before
> Kristian contributed his database, and is still there. I’d also like to
> make special mention of João Gil, who has made a major contribution across
> a spectrum of families in the time since he joined in 2013, has got very
> skilled with working at WoRMS, and is great with finding and linking the
> literature. We could not keep up with the inflow without him. Thanks João!
>> For those that don’t know, on Twitter I am @WPolyDb posting for our
> section of the WoRMS database, retweeting new lit, nice pics, and keeping
> to wormy topics.
>> Best wishes,
>> Geoff
>> From: Nancy Maciolek [mailto:njmaciolek from gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2018 5:34 a.m.
> To: Chris Glasby <chris.glasby from nt.gov.au>
> Cc: Geoff Read <Geoffrey.Read from niwa.co.nz>; annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.ed> Subject: Re: [Annelida] congratulations Geoff!
>> I would like to congratulate Geoff on this award and also thank him
> enthusiastically for all he has done to significantly upgrade the WoRMS
> database over the past several years. It is simply amazing to me that we
> now have links to so many publications embedded in the database, as well as
> history on some of the name changes, comments on same, and other pieces of
> information that in the "old days" might have been impossible to ferret out
> without a great deal of effort. A huge job, well done.
>> Thank you, Geoff!
>> best regards,
> Nancy
>> Nancy J. Maciolek
>> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 10:26 PM, Chris Glasby <chris.glasby from nt.gov.au<
> mailto:chris.glasby from nt.gov.au>> wrote:
> Hats off to our World Polychaeta Database leader.
>> WoRMS has just announced that Geoff has received an 'Achievement Award' at
> the 5th World Conference of Marine Biodiversity (Canada, Montreal, 16 May)
> for the major and very detailed contributions he has made to WoRMS in the
> past years, and his input & constructive feedback during his time on the
> Steering Committee.
>> The announcement also acknowledged his work as the driving force behind
> The World Polychaeta Database (http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta),
> his efforts to create a more inclusive online AnnelidaBase (in analogy with
> MolluscaBase), and for communicating the good work of WoRMS through
> Twitter.
>> Great work Geoff!! I think I can say for all that we are all massively
> appreciative of the work you do to make our online annelid lives easier.
>> Best, Chris
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