Richard Pyle | |
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 Pyle in the Philippines | |
| Born | 24 March 1967 (1967-03-24) (age 58) Kailua, Hawaii |
| Education | Ph.D., Zoology |
| Alma mater | University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu |
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| Fields | Marine biology |
| Institutions | Bishop Museum |
Richard Lawrence Pyle (born 24 March 1967) is ascuba diver andichthyologist working on Hawaii.[1][2]
Pyle discovered the principle of "Pyle stops" whendecompressing 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 GBIFEbbe Nielsen Challenge, aGlobal 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 ofZooBank Committee and the leader of ZooBank architecture policy working group.[7]
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