(203) 432-3767
tim.white@yale.edu
Museum Career & Assignments
Assistant Director for Collections & Operations, 2003 – present
Environmental Science Center Collections Project Manager 1999-2003
Senior Collections Manager for Invertebrate Paleontology, 1996-2003
Collections Manager for Invertebrate Paleontology, 1984-1996
Offices & Professional Appointments
President, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, 2006-2008
Member, Natural Science Collections Alliance, 2006-2008
Member-at-Large, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, 2004-2006
Documentation Committee Chair, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, 1998-2004
Special Publications Editor, The Paleontological Society, 1999 -2006
Newsletter Editor, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, 1996-2000
Select Advisory Boards & Steering Committees
The Paleontology Portal Steering Committee
Smithsonian Advisory Committee on Collections Stewardship
Yale Digital Commons Advisory Group
Heritage Health Index , Natural History Advisory Group
Yale Arts Area Advisory Committee
Recent Grant Support
CLIR, 2011 to 2114
NSF-S2I2, 2011
NSF-Paleoportal 2006-2010
IMLS-IP/IZ type, 1997-1999
ARTstor, a collaborative project with the Yale University Art Gallery. Tim White, co-PI (with Susan Matheson, Yale University Art Gallery) $152,000. 2007-09
Energy Audit and Sustainability Study of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 1926 Building, Tim White, PI. Funded by the Green Fund, Yale Advisory Committee on Environmental Management. $29,100, 2005-06
Select Publications
Collier, F.J. Hughes, N.C., Kluessendorf, J., Lipps, J., Taylor, W. and R.D. White. 2000. Fossil Invertebrate and Microfossil Collections: Kinds, Uses, Users IN White, R.D. and W.D. Allmon (eds.). Guidelines for the management and curation of invertebrate paleontology collections and including a Data Model and Standards for Computerization. Paleontological Society Spec. Pub.10: 25-36.
Weiss, M.R. and R.D. White. 1998. The 1921 Geological Society of America Election: A reprise. Earth Sciences History, 17: 27-31.
White, R.D. 1986. Cambrian Radiolaria from Utah. J. Paleont. 60(3): 778-780.
White, R.D. 1995-2003. A type catalog of fossil invertebrates in the Yale Peabody Museum. Postilla. 18 discipline specific catalogs, totaling 880 pages.
White, R.D. 2009. Biodiversity, Global Change and the History of Life: Challenges in Managing Natural History Collections in the 21st Century.Challenges and Perspectives: 100th Anniversary of the National Taiwan Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
White, R.D. and W.D. Allmon (eds.). 2000. Guidelines for the management and curation of invertebrate paleontology collections and including a Data Model and Standards for Computerization. Paleont. Soc. Spec. Pub. 10.
White, R.D. 2000. Guidelines for the documentation and care of invertebrate paleontology collections IN White, R.D. and W.D. Allmon (eds.). Guidelines for the management and curation of invertebrate paleontology collections and including a Data Model and Standards for Computerization. Paleont. Soc. Spec. Pub. 10.
White, R.D. and L.F. Gall, 2001. Databasing in Invertebrate Paleontology: One Collection’s Case History. SPNHC Newsletter, 15: 1,5,15.