Will is a Research Branch employee asigned to the Regional office and is currently creating a province-wide classification of wetland and riparian ecosystems to be used for wildlife habitat assessment, mapping, and inventory.  His main interests are in botany, plant and wildlife ecology, and information technology.  He has recently designed a free-ware database program for managing large ecological datasets and is working on improving access to other ecological information about wetlands including creation of botanical keys, a wetland inventory and consolidation of information on wildlife use of wetlands.