David is the the Collections Manager and Research Botanist at the University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum, which holds over 700,000 specimens across its vascular plant, nonvascular plant, macrofungi, lichenized fungi, and marine algae collections. Ongoing projects in the Herbarium focus on digitizing the collections, overseeing the development of Web-based applications that allow professional and amateur botanists to access and utilize collections data, and incorporating emerging Web technologies to share data with search portals regionally, nationally, and internationally. David received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, his M.S. from the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources, and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia.