Team
Mike Guiry
Michael Guiry is the Director of the AlgaeBase project. He is a graduate of University College Cork and the University of London and has carried out research at the University of Portsmouth in England, the University of Melbourne in Australia, and St Francis Xavier University in Canada. His professional interests are in algal databasing, taxonomy and systematics, and in the sustainable use of seaweed resources worldwide.
http://www.seaweed.ie/guiry.
Wendy Guiry
Wendy Guiry is a Research Assistant on the AlgaeBase project. A graduate of University College, Cork, she has taught in London, and has been a Research Assistant at NUI, Galway since 1982.
Sandy Lawson
Sandy is an Administrative Assistant at the National University of Ireland Galway. She has been involved with the AlgaeBase project since its inception and has dealt with the financial accounting on all projects associated with it.
Salvador Valenzuela Miranda
Salvador is an ardent worker on Algaebase. He has been entering all the literature from the Iberian Peninsula and the Islas Canarias, and now has responsibility for the diatoms lists for Europe.
David John
David John is a Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum in London where held various position including Head of Freshwater Algae Section, Head of the Algae Division and Chair of the Environmental Quality Research Theme before his retirement. Known internationally for his contributions both to marine and freshwater algal systematics, he has published over 200 papers on algae, including co-editing and contributing to The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles, a second edition of which is currently in preparation. David has responsibility for the desmid lists for Europe.
