Richard Pyle Explained

Birth Place:	Kailua, Hawaii
Fields:	Marine biology
Workplaces:	Bishop Museum
Education:	Ph.D., Zoology
Alma Mater:	University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu

Richard Lawrence Pyle (born 24 March 1967) is a scuba diver and ichthyologist working 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.

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. He has been honoured by having the twilight fangblenny (Petroscirtes pylei) named in his honor.^[6]

Pyle is a member of ZooBank Committee and the leader of ZooBank architecture policy working group.^[7]

External links

• • BioGUID

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hawaii Biological Survey Staff, Richard L. Pyle . . 2009 . 6 April 2016.
2. Web site: Curriculum vitae, Richard L Pyle, Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum, Honolulu . Pyle . Richard . 30 December 2016.
3. Web site: The importance of deep safety stops: Rethinking ascent patterns from decompression dives. https://web.archive.org/web/20130525035245/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/6066. usurped. May 25, 2013. Pyle. Richard L.. 1997. Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. 9 March 2016.
4. Web site: Richard Pyle . . 6 April 2016.
5. Web site: Winners named for first GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge. 30 October 2015. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 30 June 2016.
6. Web site: Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . 7 April 2019 . 26 October 2018 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.
7. http://iczn.org/content/zoobank-committee "ZooBank Committee"