19 min
Cornelia Nauen - FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast
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- Natural Sciences
Back in the late 1980s, Dr Cornelia Nauen was entrusted by Dr Daniel Pauly and Dr Rainer Froese with a big mission: finding a way to fund FishBase, a biodiversity information system of all fish in the world.
On this episode, Dr Nauen recounts how she and the FishBase team worked together to gather millions of dollars and kickstart the project, and the challenges of keeping it going once the initial funding phase was done.
She also shared some unknown details and funny anecdotes related to the creation of this groundbreaking database.
Produced by Valentina Ruiz-Leotaud.
Back in the late 1980s, Dr Cornelia Nauen was entrusted by Dr Daniel Pauly and Dr Rainer Froese with a big mission: finding a way to fund FishBase, a biodiversity information system of all fish in the world.
On this episode, Dr Nauen recounts how she and the FishBase team worked together to gather millions of dollars and kickstart the project, and the challenges of keeping it going once the initial funding phase was done.
She also shared some unknown details and funny anecdotes related to the creation of this groundbreaking database.
Produced by Valentina Ruiz-Leotaud.
19 min