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[Rodman, James E]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yates, Terry L
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 3:43 PM
> To:   BIO-AD-Staff
> Cc:   BIO-DEB-PO
> Subject:      FW:
>
> FYI
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Cracraft [SMTP:jlc at amnh.org]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 3:17 PM
> To:   TAXACOM-Request at CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU
> Subject:
>
> Colleagues: could you please send the following message out to Taxacom
> participants?  It describes the release of a NSF workshop on phylogenetics
> and phyloinformatics that the systematic community needs to see.  Thanks
> very much.  Joel Cracraft
>
> Colleagues:
>
> Earlier this year the National Science Foundation funded a workshop at
> Yale University to assess the need for an increased research effort to
> assemble a much more complete picture of the Tree of Life (TOL), and to
> make recommendations on how that effort might be undertaken over the next
> decade.  We are pleased to announce the posting of the final report of
> that workshop on the www.  The report can be downloaded (in PDF format)
> from: http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/
>
> Two more TOL workshops are planned this fall.  One at the University of
> California, Davis, will explore issues in phyloinformatics, and a second
> at the University of Texas, Austin, will address data gathering and
> analysis.
>
> We believe this initiative will significantly advance our understanding of
> life's history and therefore  will be of immense benefit to all biological
> sciences and to society as a whole.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Joel Cracraft, American Museum of Natural History
> Michael Donoghue, Yale University
> --
> Joel Cracraft
> Curator-in-Charge
> Department of Ornithology
> American Museum of Natural History
> Central Park West at 79th Street
> New York, New York 10024
>
> Phone: (212) 769-5633
> Fax:   (212) 769-5759
> e-mail: JLC at amnh.org
>         cracraft at amnh.org
>