Dear All, What a shock! Indeed he will be missed. The Catalogue of LIfe Global Team Meeting will be held early December here in the Philippines. Beyond sadness, we will make all our efforts to pursue what he started and will dedicate the one day-symposium to his memory. RIP. Nicolas Nicolas Bailly WorldFish Center Philippines ________________________________ From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org on behalf of Chuck Miller Sent: Thu 10/27/2011 10:23 AM To: tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org; xcom@tdwg.org Subject: [tdwg-content] Frank Bisby Folks, Frank Bisby has passed away unexpectedly. This is quite a loss to our community and the world. Frank was a pioneer in the field now called biodiversity informatics, the first Chairman of TDWG, a colleague and friend. I was glad to be able to spend a lot of time with him in the last few weeks. He was a great man and will be deeply missed. As soon as I get more information about final arrangements I will pass it on. Chuck _______________________________________________ tdwg-content mailing list tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content

This is really a shock, I talked to him when checking out at the hotel in New Orleans, just a few days ago and we had so many plans to collaborate. I will really miss him as a long term friend and colleague Patricia On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Chuck Miller <Chuck.Miller@mobot.org>wrote:

Folks, Frank Bisby has passed away unexpectedly. This is quite a loss to our community and the world. Frank was a pioneer in the field now called biodiversity informatics, the first Chairman of TDWG, a colleague and friend. I was glad to be able to spend a lot of time with him in the last few weeks. He was a great man and will be deeply missed. As soon as I get more information about final arrangements I will pass it on.

Chuck