PARENT SESSION Saturday, August 5, 8:00 am-1:00 pm WK - Ecoinformatics—using informatics tools to enhance the productivity of ecology researchers L-12, Lobby Level, Cook Convention Center Organized by: ACS Fiala (fialaa@evergreen.edu), NM Nadkarni, JB Cushing, and JL Zeman In our hands-on computer workshop for forest ecologists, we will introduce two prototype ecoinformatics tools: 1) a database designer ("DataBank"), which helps ecologists design and manage databases without specialized database skills; and 2) a visualization tool ("CanopyView"), which creates visualizations of forest structure from DataBank datasets.

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