Objective
The Semblis Foundation is currently digitizing the knowledge and information archived by biologist Henk M. Moller Pillot over the past 50 years in the form of field books, notebooks, field forms, articles, collection materials, and so on.
The goal is to preserve, safeguard and transfer this knowledge to the public and official agencies. The collection will be transferred to the Naturalis Museum and the data will be sent to NLBIF and GBIF.
Chironomidae
Henk Moller Pillot is a biologist and specialist in aquatic ecology. He has authored several scientific publications on Chironomidae (dancing midges), which are used as indicators for water assessment. Moller Pillot is the most well-known biologist from Tilburg and also enjoys international fame in scientific circles as a hydrobiologist and ecologist.
To digitize Henk M. Moller Pillot’s nature archive of the past 50 years, an inventory of his materials was made. There are a total of 20 field books, 44 notebooks, 300 field forms, 2 surveys with over 60 locations and 10 years of research on the Roodloop (a stream in Brabant). He has also conducted research in Belarus with more than 500 sites and in Germany with more than 200 sites. In total, about one million records need to be digitized from the above information transferred to the Semblis Foundation by Henk M. Moller Pillot.
Chironomidae collection of Henk Moller Pillot.
