[Coral-List] Termination of the National Biological Information Infrastructure program
David M. Lawrence
dave at fuzzo.com
Thu Oct 6 23:53:46 EDT 2011
Dear all:
I just heard of this from David Inouye, moderator of the ECOLOG-L list.
According to the NBII Web site (http://www.nbii.gov):
"In the 2012 President's Budget Request, the National Biological
Information Infrastructure (NBII) is terminated. As a result, all
resources, databases, tools, and applications within this web site will
be removed on January 15, 2012. For more information, please refer to
the NBII Program Termination page."
The termination page is at http://1.usa.gov/ok8BgX
I doubt the programmatic savings is worth the loss of access to the
information contained. More important, how will the closure of this
program affect the coral research and conservation communities?
Later,
Dave
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