Henry L. Bart

Henry L. Bart Jr. received the bachelor’s of science and master’s of science degrees in biological sciences from the University of New Orleans, and the PhD degree in zoology from the University of Oklahoma. He is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Tulane University, and the director at the Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute (TUBRI). Prior to joining the Tulane University faculty in 1992, he held faculty positions at the University of Illinois and Auburn University. His research specialty is ecology and taxonomy of freshwater fishes. He is a curator at the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection, TUBRI—the largest research collection of post-larval fishes in the world. He leads a number of biodiversity informatics projects at TUBRI, including the GEOLocate georeferencing software development projects and the Fishnet2 network of fish collection databases. He is a member of a number of national boards and steering committees serving the US natural history collections community. He teaches classes in ichthyology, stream ecology, natural resource conservation, and biodiversity informatics to Tulane undergraduates and graduate students.