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Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, Interviews, 2003-2004

3 results in SIA.FARU9616 for "Ichthyology"
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Interview of Bruce B. Collette by David G. Smith and Inci Altug Bowman, covers his childhood in Panama, Florida and Long Island, New York; interest in collecting small animals, influence of Long Island Science Congress, high school projects, and going to Cornell University as an undergraduate, meeting Sara, his future wife, and work on darters and tunas; his major professor Ed Raney, teaching assistantship and fellow graduate students at Cornell; interest in herpetology and then ichthyology; marriage to Sara, honeymoon in Higgins Lake, Michigan, as he attends the first American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists meeting; accepting position at the National Systematics Laboratory at the Smithsonian in 1960.
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Interview of Bruce B. Collette by David G. Smith and Inci Altug Bowman he reflects on the advantages of working in a museum (with a major collection of fishes), interaction with colleagues in other fields, and significant research papers, as well as mentors and influential colleagues at Cornell and the Smithsonian; his 50-year long affiliation with the ASIH, various positions he held in the organization; how the ASIH and the field of ichthyology have changed during his long career as a government scientist; ending with his personal interests, the horse farm in Virginia where he lives, and his international beer bottle collection.
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Interview of James C. Tyler by David G. Smith and Inci Altug Bowman recounts more on social events at the NASM, exhibition of Hydro Lab from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the NMNH, and the controversy involving the return of the Indian cultural objects and skeletal remains in the possession of the Smithsonian to American Indian communities. He discusses his research at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, describing the facilities operated by the Smithsonian on this remote island, and work on sailfin blennies. He closes with a review of his work on the tetraodontiform and acanthuroid fishes in fossil and extant forms; his involvement in the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, receiving the Gibbs Award from the ASIH, and future of ichthyology as a scientific field.
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