Ruth Cordes

Ruth Cordes holds a BSc (Hons. Physics) from Dalhousie University and an MSc in Physics (Oceanography) from the University of British Columbia. After working in data analysis and data management at the Dalhousie X-Ray Crystallography Centre, she returned to Dalhousie to obtain her MLIS degree, and became involved in the early phases of the EIUI research initiative. Based on her initial citation study of GESAMP publications, she won the New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology Student Travel Award in 2002, and the Student to CAIS/ACSI 2003 Award (Canadian Society for Information Science). She shared the GreyNet Award 2004 (International Conference for Grey Literature) with Drs. MacDonald and Wells. Her work with the EIUI initiative continued in 2006 with a report on the publications of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment. Currently, she works with grey literature as the Managing Editor of the Canadian Public Documents Collections in the Canadian Electronic Library.