Stanley D. Blum
   Research Information Manager

California Academy of Sciences
875 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3009
Tel/Fax:  (415) 321-8183 / 321-8625
sblum «at» calacademy-dot-org
April, 2004
 
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz — Biology, B.A. (Highest Honors), 1978.
University of Hawaii. Zoology — Ph.D., 1988.
American Museum of Natural History— Postdoctoral Fellow, Vertebrate Paleontology, 1986-1989.
Smithsonian Institution — Postdoctoral Fellow, Vertebrate Zoology, Fish Division, 1990.
 
Appointments
1998-Present
 Research Information Manager, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
1998
Associate Research Professor of Environmental Informatics, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
1996-7
Research Scientist, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. 
1995
Biological Collections Information Specialist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. 
1991-3
Data Administrator, Collections Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.  Washington, D.C.

Publications

2002. Blum, S. Integrating Bio-Collection Databases: Metadata in Natural History Museums. pp. 113-117. in Cataloging the Web: Metadata, AACR, and MARC 21. Edited by Jones, W., J. R. Ahronheim, and J. Crawford.
   
2000. Blum, S. D. An Overview of Biodiversity Informatics.  http://www.calacademy.org/research/informatics/sblum/pub/biodiv_informatics.html
   
1998. Blum, S. D. (Ed.)  Proceedings of a Workshop on the Compilation, Maintenance, and Dissemination of Taxonomic Authority Files. (published electronically:  http://www.calacademy.org/research/informatics/taf ).
   
1996. Blum, S. D., and B. R. Stein.  The MVZ Collections Information Model.  pp. 1-141.  Collections Information System Re-Engineering Project, Museum Of Vertebrate Zoology, University Of California, Berkeley.  Available as three separate electronic documents:
  MVZ Collections Information Model
  Logical Model
  Object-Role Modeling Figures
   
1993. Association of Systematics Collections Committee on Computerization and Networking.  An Information Model for Biological Collections; Report of the Biological Collections Data Standards Workshop, August 18-24, 1992.
   
1988. Blum, Stanley D. The Osteology and Phylogeny of the Chaetodontidae (Teleostei: Perciformes).  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Hawaii, Manoa. 365 pp.
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