Richard Pyle | |
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Born | 24 March 1967 (1967-03-24) (age 57) Kailua, Hawaii |
Education | Ph.D., Zoology |
Alma mater | University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Marine biology |
Institutions | Bishop Museum |
Richard Lawrence Pyle (born 24 March 1967) is a scuba diver and ichthyologist working on Hawaii. [1] [2]
Pyle discovered the principle of " Pyle stops" when decompressing from many deep dives in search of new species of fish, and has identified hundreds of new species. [3] [4]
He is the author of over 130 publications. [1]
In October 2015, he won second prize, an award of €5,000, in the GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, a Global Biodiversity Information Facility competition, for BioGUID.org, "a web service that crosslinks identifiers linked to data objects in the biodiversity realm". [5] At that time, the site contained over one billion (1,000,000,000) identifiers. [5] He has been honoured by having the twilight fangblenny ( Petroscirtes pylei) named in his honor. [6]
Pyle is a member of ZooBank Committee and the leader of ZooBank architecture policy working group. [7]
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