Rob Guralnick
Curator Of Biodiversity Informatics
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Guralnick is a Curator of Biodiversity Informatics at the University of Florida and a biodiversity scientist with 14+ years integrating global change biology with practical informatics. He specializes in mobilizing and reusing legacy biodiversity records—from museum collections to literature data—to enable new research and synthesis. His career bridges academia and curation, including a long tenure as Associate Professor and Curator of Invertebrates at CU Boulder, giving him deep domain knowledge in both specimens and data infrastructure. Based in Gainesville, he combines a PhD in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley with hands-on stewardship of biocollections, uniquely positioning him to turn historical records into actionable, computable biodiversity knowledge.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Integrative Biology, PhD, Integrative Biology at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (41)
biodiversity-informatics8
r-package7
bioinformatics7
biodiversity6
webapp5
internals5
ontology5
r5
darwin4
web-application4
xml-schema4
python4
api3
ack3
readable3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
robgur/LepPheno_UnusualWeather
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
A fork of the best practices paper for a follow up study on impact of unusual weather on phenology
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
robgur/PhenoVelocity
May 2024 - May 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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