Contacts

For general questions, please email the Arctos Working Group Officers.
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To join the Arctos User Group, view instructions or write the arctos-working-group [at] googlegroups.com

Arctos Advisory Committee

  • Chris Witt (Chair), Museum of Southwestern Biology, Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  • Derek Sikes (Vice-Chair), University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK
  • Dawn Roberts (Secretary), Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago, IL
  • John Abbott, University of Alabama Museums, Univ. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  • David Bloom, VertNet
  • Michael Nachman, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Univ. California, Berkeley, CA

Emeriti (formerly the Steering committee) members

  • Joe Cook (Emeritus Chair), Museum of Southwestern Biology, Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  • John Demboski (Emeritus Chair), Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
  • Link Olson (Emeritus Chair), University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK
  • Craig Moritz (Emeritus), Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley, CA

Arctos Working Group

Manages Arctos communication, documentation, development priorities, and outreach

arctos-working-group [at] googlegroups.com

Executive Officers

arctos-working-group-officers [at] googlegroups.com

  • Director: Michelle Koo, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Univ. California, Berkeley, CA (2019-present), chair@arctosdb.org
  • Deputy Director: Mariel Campbell, Museum of Southwestern Biology, Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (2019-present), chair@arctosdb.org
  • Secretary: Beth Wommack, University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates,  Laramie, WY (2020-present), communications@arctosdb.org
  • Treasurer: Andrew Doll, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO (2019-present), treasurer@arctosdb.org
  • Communications:  Co-managed by Lindsey Frederick and Beth Wommack
  • Membership: Lindsey Frederick, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque, NM (2021-present) membership@arctosdb.org
  • Education and Training: Emily Braker, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, CO (2017-present)

Emeriti Officers

  • Emeritus Chair: Carla Cicero, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Univ. California, Berkeley, CA (2009-2018)
  • Emeritus Treasurer: Teresa Mayfield, Museum of Southwestern Biology, Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (2017-2020)
  • Emeritus Communications: Kyndall Hildebrandt, University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK (2017-2020)
  • Emeritus Membership: Angela Linn, University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK (2019-2020)

Members

Current Arctos Working Group members are listed in Arctos

Arctos Committees

Arctos Working Group Members may participate in committees that are formed to address specific needs. Committees may be permanent or meet until a specific project is completed. Committee membership is not restricted to Working Group Members and may include anyone from the user community or who has expertise in the area of interest. If you want to join an existing committee, contact the listed organizer. If you want to start a new committee, contact any of the Arctos Working Group Officers.

Agents
Provide guidance and assist the community in creating useful agent profiles and managing information related to people and organizations in Arctos.
Organized by: Beth Wommack
Meeting Schedule: As needed

Code Table
Provide guidance and assist the community in creating useful controlled vocabularies in Arctos. Anyone is welcome to attend meetings with the Leads, who are code table administrators and are responsible for maintaining controlled vocabularies.
Organized by: Michelle Koo
Meeting Schedule: Every other week on Thursday at 1 PM Pacific in the Arctos Zoom Room

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Provide guidance and assist the community in creating appropriate policies and procedures for ensuring that Arctos is welcoming to everyone.
Organized by: Beth Wommack
Meeting Schedule: Third Thursday of each month at 1 PM Pacific in the Arctos Zoom Room

Documentation
Strive to continuously update Arctos documentation, primarily through maintenance of How To documents in the Arctos Handbook and video tutorials hosted on the Arctos YouTube Channel.
Organized by: Emily Braker
Meeting Schedule: Last Wednesday of each month at 1 PM Pacific in the Arctos Zoom Room

Encumbrances
Provide guidance and assist the community in managing and using encumbrances in Arctos.
Organized by: Angie Linn
Meeting Schedule: Meets last Friday of the month at 11:00 Alaska time

Entities
Provide guidance and assist the community in managing and using Arctos entities.
Organized by: TBD
Meeting Schedule: As needed

Genomic Resources
Provide guidance and assist the community in managing genomic resources.
Organized by: Hannah Appiah-Madson, Rosie Poulin
Meeting Schedule: Meets second Friday of the month at 10AM PST in the Arctos Zoom Room

Geography
Provide guidance and assist the community in managing and developing the vocabulary and spatial profiles for higher geography in Arctos.
Organized by: Genna Anderegg
Meeting Schedule: First Monday of each month at Noon Pacific in the Arctos Zoom Room

Media
Provide guidance and assist the community about how to manage media in Arctos.
Organized by: Carla Cicero
Meeting Schedule: As needed

Observation
Provide guidance and assist the community in managing observation data in Arctos.
Organized by: Carla Cicero
Meeting Schedule: As needed

Object Tracking
Provide guidance and assist the community in managing object tracking in Arctos.
Organized by: Hannah Appiah-Madson, Rosie Poulin
Meeting Schedule: As needed

Parasite/Pathology
Provide guidance and assist the community in managing parasite and pathology data in Arctos.
Organized by: Mariel Campbell
Meeting Schedule: As needed

Paleontology
Provide guidance and assist the community about how to manage fossil collections in Arctos.
Organized by: Nicole Volden
Meeting Schedule: As needed

Taxonomy
Provide guidance and assist the community in creating useful taxon name lists and associated classifications in Arctos.
Organized by: Genna Anderegg
Meeting Schedule: First Thursday of every other month at 10 AM Pacific in the Arctos Zoom Room

User Interface
Provide guidance and assist the community in development of the Arctos user interface.
Organized by: Michelle Koo
Meeting Schedule: As needed

Technical Support

Responsible for Arctos development, database administration, data migration, security, and other technical tasks.

  • Dusty McDonald, Arctos – Lead Programmer (dustymc [at] gmail.com)
  • TBD, Arctos – Community Coordinator
  • Lam Voong, University of California, Berkeley – Database Administrator
  • Chris Jordan, Texas Advanced Computing Center – TACC Data Management and Collections Group Lead
  • Michelle Koo, University of California, Berkeley – Arctosdb.org web contact, GitHub, and Google Outreach grants contact (mkoo [at] berkeley.edu)