Certificates of Appreciation

The Directors of Species 2000 and the management of the Catalogue of Life Partnership wish to express their sincere appreciation for the loyal contribution of validated data and expert knowledge to the Catalogue of Life, the most comprehensive and authoritative global index of species currently available, uniting the voice of the taxonomic community in a single service, by presenting Certificates of Appreciation.

The certificates are annually presented to the representatives of Global Species Databases contributing to the Catalogue of Life for a period of 10 years.

The presentation usually is combined with the mini-symposium following the Catalogue of Life Global Team Meeting. The first certificate was presented to Paul Schoolmeesters on 2 April 2015 at VLIZ, Oostende, Belgium.

The receivers of a Certificate of Appreciation

In 2019:
Christian Emig for Brachiopoda & Phoronida
Alastair Culham for Droseraceae Database
John Oswald for LDL Neuropterida
Gilberto Moraes for Mites GSDs
Adeline Soulier-Perkins for Psyl'list
Colin Favret for SF Aphid
Daniel Otte, Lauren Spearman & Martin Stiewe for SF Mantodea
Edward DeWalt for SF Plecoptera
Les Watling & Sarah Gerken for WoRMS Cumacea
Sabine Stöhr, Tim O’Hara & Ben Thuy for WoRMS Ophiuroidea

In 2018:
George Beccaloni for Cockroach Species File
Paul D. Brock, Edward Baker & Thies Büscher for Phasmida Species File
Carlos Lado & Juan Carlos Hernández-Crespo for An online nomenclatural information system of Eumycetozoa
Jurate & Willy De Prins for Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae
Adeline Soulier-Perkins for COOL: Cercopoidea Organised On Line
Luisa Abucay for being the Database Manager of the Catalogue of Life for eight years

In 2017:
Heimo Rainer & Lars Chatrou for AnnonBase
Alessandro Minelli for ChiloBase: A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda) for the web
Aljos Farjon for Conifer database
Hendrik Segers for FADA Rotifera: Annotated checklist of the rotifers (Phylum Rotifera)
Christoph Häuser for  GloBIS/GART: Global Butterfly Information System
Scott Mori, Ghillian Prance & Melissa Tulig for LecyPages: The Lecythidaceae Pages
Carlos Aedo for RJB Geranium: Geranium Taxonomic Information System
Jörg Spelda for SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database
Rob van Soest for WoRMS Porifera: World Porifera database
Miguel Angel Alonso Zarazaga, Chris Lyal & Manuel Sánchez-Ruiz for WTaxa: Electronic Catalogue of Weevil names (Curculionoidea)

In 2016:
Thierry Bourgoin for FLOW
Rafaël Govaerts for World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Michael Malicky for Zobodat
Ard Nijhof for TicksBase
John Noyes for Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Jan van Tol for Global Species Database of Odonata
Peter Uetz for The Reptile Database

In 2015:
David Eades for Orthoptera Species Files
Rainer Froese for FishBase
Paul Kirk for Species Fungorum and other fungi databases
Elliot Lefkovitz for International Committee on Taxonomy f Viruses (ICTV/MSL)
Pjotr Oosterbroek for Catalogue of Craneflies of the World (CCW)
Norman Platnick for World Spider Catalogue (SpidCat)
Yuri Roskov for International Legume Database & Information Service (ILDIS)
Michael Ruggiero for Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Paul Schoolmeesters for World Scarabaeidae Database (Scarabs)