INTER-AMERICAN WORKSHOP ON ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ACCESS

ROBERT HIJMANS

PhD in Production Ecology and Resource Conservation from Wageningen University, Netherlands. Head of the Geographic Information Systems Unit and Bioinformatics Unit, International Potato Center, Peru (1994-2002). Associate Specialist at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley, USA (2002-).

Research interests include spatial modeling for decision making in agriculture and biodiversity conservation. Developed spatial databases of crop distribution, species distribution and climate; and software for spatial analysis of biodiversity data (DIVA-GIS: http://www.diva-gis.org).

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