Working Groups of AmphibiaWeb

Work on AmphibiaWeb is guided by the expertise and performed by the efforts of scientists and educators around the world who volunteer their time in focused working groups.
Taxonomy Working Group

Conservation Working Group

Species Account Working Group

Taxonomy Working Group

Taxonomy is central to the AmphibiaWeb database.
The Taxonomy Working Group is responsible for adding newly described species, reviewing proposed taxonomic changes, and tracking the relevant scientific literature. They may add taxonomic notes to species pages to explain particularly complex decisions. Read their policies and criteria for decisions.

Member	Affiliation	Expertise
David Blackburn, Lead	University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA	African amphibians
Umilaela Arifin	Zoologisches Museum Hamburg, Germany	Southeast Asian amphibians
Alessandro Catenazzi	Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA	South American amphibians
Chan Kin Onn	National University of Singapore, Singapore	Southeast Asian amphibians
Che Jing	Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, China	Asian amphibians, especially in China
Sonali Garg	University of Delhi, Delhi, India	Asian amphibians, especially in India
Michelle Koo	University of California, Berkeley, California, USA	Informatics, North American amphibians
Jim McGuire	University of California, Berkeley, California, USA	Southeast Asian and North American amphibians
Ana Motta	University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA	South American amphibians
Gabriela Parra Olea	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, México	Central American amphibians
Santiago Ron	Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador	South American amphibians
Sean Rovito	Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Irapuato, México	Central American amphibians
Jodi Rowley	The Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia	Southeast Asian, Australian and New Zealand amphibians

Conservation Working Group

Conservation is one of the pillars of AmphibiaWeb.
The Conservation Working Group is currently focused on revamping the resource pages on amphibian conservation, analysing global patterns of conservation for amphibians, and related tasks to keep the database updated.

Member	Affiliation	Experience
Emma Steigerwald, Lead	University of California Berkeley	Graduate student studying the response of Andean frogs to climate change and disease
Allie Byrne	University of California Berkeley	Postdoc focused on Bd and Bsal
Alessandro Catenazzi	Florida International University	Professor studying South American amphibians and disease
Julia Chen	University of California, Berkeley	Undergraduate apprentice in GIS
Michelle Koo	University of California, Berkeley	Curator and researcher in amphibian biogeography, conservation, and GIS
Julianne Oshiro	University of California, Berkeley	Undergraduate apprentice in GIS
Vance Vredenburg	San Francisco State University	Professor studying chytridiomycosis ecology, mitigation, and amphibian reintroduction

Species Account Working Group

One of the core components of AmphibiaWeb is the species account page.
The Species Account Working Group strategizes how to make species accounts as valuable as possible including expanding the network of experts to keep existing species pages updated and to create content and author new ones.

Member	Affiliation	Position
Ann T. Chang, Lead	University of California, Berkeley	AmphibiaWeb coordinator and editor
Rayna Bell	California Academy of Sciences	Curator of Herpetology and Senior Associate, AmphibiaWeb
Rebecca Tarvin	University of California, Berkeley	Curator of Herpetology, Professor, and Senior Associate, AmphibiaWeb
Molly Womack	Utah State University, Logan	Professor and Senior Associate, AmphibiaWeb

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