Richard Pyle

Richard Pyle

Richard L. Pyle on boat in Philippines, with Poseidon SE7EN Rebreather
Born London, Ontario
Nationality Canadian
Fields Marine biology
Institutions Bishop Museum
Education Ph.D., Zoology
Alma mater University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu

Richard L. Pyle, Ph.D. is a scuba diver and ichthyologist working on Hawaii. He was born on Hawaii.[1][2]

Pyle discovered the principle of "Pyle stops" when decompressing from many deep dives in search of new species of fish, and has identified hundreds of new species.[3][4]

He is the author of over 130 publications.[1]

In October 2015, he won second prize, an award of €5,000, in the GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, a Global Biodiversity Information Facility competition, for BioGUID.org, "a web service that crosslinks identifiers linked to data objects in the biodiversity realm".[5] At that time, the site contained over one billion (1,000,000,000) identifiers.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Hawaii Biological Survey Staff, Richard L. Pyle". Bishop Museum. 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  2. Pyle, Richard. "Curriculum vitae, Richard L. Pyle, Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum, Honolulu" (PDF). Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  3. Pyle, Richard L. (1997). "The importance of deep safety stops: Rethinking ascent patterns from decompression dives". Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  4. "Richard Pyle". TED.com. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Winners named for first GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 30 October 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
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