Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy Fifth Biennial Conference: Spatial & Temporal Issues in Taxonomy About Location Travel Hotel Posters Program Sessions Sponsors Registration Final Details The Fifth Biennial conference took place September 20-23, 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Click here to view videos of conference sessions. Click here to view and download electronic poster presentations. The National Science Foundation PEET (Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy) Program has been in existence since 1995, and currently has 41 active projects. The PEET program weaves together three aspects of biology: training the next generation of taxonomists, working on groups of organisms that are poorly known and poorly resolved, and using modern electronic technology to gather, organize, and disseminate data, information, and results. To help further the cause of this program, NSF sponsors a biennial conference, generally composed of symposia, workshops, and a field trip, for its PEET projects and partners. The purpose of the conference is to allow for information sharing, joint resolution of common challenges, and acquisition of new concepts and techniques. The first conference focused on databases and was hosted by the University of Kansas in 1996, the second conference in 1998 at Woods Hole focused on training of taxonomic experts, the third conference in 2000 at the Smithsonian Institution focused on monographic research and the dissemination of monographic products in an electronic age, and the fourth conference, in 2002 at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on internationalizing the PEET concept and connecting PEET to broader scientific endeavors. These biennial PEET conferences of prominent scientists and energetic graduate students and postdocs are critical to sharing expertise and resources developed in individual projects with the broader PEET community. This fifth biennial conference featured representation from 41 current PEET projects, a total of 156 participants. The conference took place on the campus of the University of Illinois in what was once a tall grass prairie. The theme of the conference was "spatial and temporal issues in taxonomy". Last updated: 17-Sept-2004 Questions/Info: djward@ad.uiuc.edu or 217-333-2880 Disclaimer