Richard Pyle

Richard Pyle
Pyle in the Philippines
Born	24 March 1967 (1967-03-24) (age 49) Kailua, Hawaii
Fields	Marine biology
Institutions	Bishop Museum
Education	Ph.D., Zoology
Alma mater	University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu

Richard L. Pyle, Ph.D. is a scuba diver and ichthyologist working on Hawaii.

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.

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". At that time, the site contained over one billion (1,000,000,000) identifiers.