Sentences with word «ichthyologist»

Its early members included Nicolás José Gutiérrez, the physician who introduced anesthesia in Cuba, Felipe Poey y Aloy, Latin America's most famous ichthyologist at the time, and the renowned physician and scientist, Carlos Finlay, who first determined that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes.
But Stewart rediscovered a second species that he describes in the March issue of the journal Copeia, published by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
The Smithsonian's curators have gathered digital X-rays of their collection in the book Ichthyo: The Architecture of Fish, which also features essays by oceanographer Jean - Michel Cousteau, ichthyologist Daniel Pauly, Museum of Photographic Arts director Deborah Klochko, and photo researcher Stephanie Comer.
This fertility encourages Brazilian ichthyologists to believe that no matter what the fishing pressure the dourado will survive.
«This is a really novel feeding behavior and a previously undescribed use of scales,» says ichthyologist Philip Motta of the University of South Florida in Tampa, who was not involved with the research.
Poisson was one of the great ichthyologists of the nineteenth century who first came to the attention of the international scientific community for his discovery of the Giant Penguins of Ton Gue Incheek Island, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
Some of the most recent e-mails, sent on 4 May, asked ichthyologist Brian Sidlauskas, the fish curator at Oregon State University, Corvallis, for hagfish, lampreys, and ratfish.
Ichthyologists reported that more than 15,300 marine fish species are now included in the census database.
«For 40 or 50 years, we've left financial issues to the trust, now we have to worry about our business model, our secretariat, how to become more cost - effective and how to get more stakeholders to put money on the table,» says Peter Ng, an NUS ichthyologist and commission member.
Over the last 20 years ichthyologist Barry Chernoff has collected more than a quarter - million fish in the lakes, ponds, and rivers of South America.
Think again: A random ichthyologist in Jamaica drank too much Red Stripe and insists Earth is shaped like a helmeted basilisk lizard.
[Fish] without the duplicated genome are diversifying just fine,» as fast or even faster than teleosts, notes Michael Alfaro, an evolutionary ichthyologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Early this year, ichthyologist Dominique Didier Dagit announced her discovery of Chimaera panthera, an astoundingly unattractive species of ratfish living at depths of 2,000 feet off the coast of New Zealand.
The 19th - century ichthyologist G. Brown Goode exaggerated only slightly when declaring that people who dine on Atlantic saltwater fish are eating «nothing but menhaden.»
Later that year, Hildebrand presented that film at the annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, revealing the news to the scientific community for the first time.
«We begin to see the body as an afterthought, following the mouth,» ichthyologist Daniel Pauly writes in an essay in the book.
I will do so in terms of the written word, because as a scholar of literature and a writer (an ichthyologist and a fish), my exploration of the medieval and the modern must proceed through an examination of texts.
Even some sexual species would not qualify, according to Richard Mayden, an ichthyologist and evolutionary theorist at Saint Louis University.
The ichthyologists found they could detect spawning activity up to 20 meters from underwater microphones.
Perhaps because of variations in currents or water chemistry, dorados are not using the channel, says Carolina Rodrigues da Costa Doria, an ichthyologist at the Federal University of Rondônia in Porto Velho, Brazil.
I didn't know any of these fish from Adam, but I brought back all of the ingredients and the ichthyologist at Harvard identified them: puffer fish.
Co-author Marianne Nyegaard, an ichthyologist at Australia's Murdoch University, says this type of clarification is vital in biology and «important in understanding, for example, the ecological consequences of climate change.»
«The use of fish to control mosquito disease vectors should be abandoned by authorities,» says Valter Azevedo - Santos, an ichthyologist at São Paulo State University in Botucatu, Brazil, who co-authored a letter objecting to the strategy published in Science earlier this year.
According to Richard L. Haedrich, an ichthyologist writing in a recent issue of Natural History, catch quotas for deep - sea fishes were set «essentially by guesswork, relying on... knowledge of shallow - water species.
You have to be a population biologist, a botanist, an ecologist, a biophysicist, a biochemist, a microbiologist, a molecular biologist, a bioengineer, a geneticist, an evolutionary biologist, a developmental biologist, a zoologist, an anatomist, a pathologist, a virologist, an ichthyologist, a herpetologist, an ornithologist, a paleontologist, an exobiologist, or you - get - the - gist.
From the wide - eyed biology major, determined to become an ichthyologist.
I've always had a lifelong passion for the ocean and all of it's undersea inhabitants — I think I announced when I was 5 that I was going to be an ichthyologist who studies sharks (no really, I'm serious).
Find out what an Ichthyologist is.
Do you know what an Ichthyologist is?
No one we asked knew what an Ichthyologist does.
This will be a project that they will treasure forever and remember the journey that led them to be ichthyologists.
In the end, she may not win a Nobel Prize as an ichthyologist, but she did learn the power of problem solving and perseverance in seeking answers to problems.
You should become an ichthyologist.
An ichthyologist who had spent a half - dozen years studying cichlids of the Great Lakes of Africa in the mid 1970s, Glen had briefly worked for his father and uncle over a decade earlier, but left to start his own business.
An ichthyologist specializing in placoderms, or armored fish, Dean was also an enthusiastic collector of armor.
As I read in and around the topic of climate change, one thing that is most compelling to me is that ornithologists, geologists, marine biologists, ichthyologists, oceanographers, glaciologists, physicists, zoologists, primatologists, sailors, fishermen, etc, etc, all working in their own disciplines and professions are coming to the same conclusion that something profound is happening with our climate.
Of course, all this is of interest to an ichthyologist potentially interested in understanding where to look for expected changes in fish distributions given the tremendous diversity of depths occupied by different groups of fishes.
Dr. Clark was an ichthyologist and oceanographer whose academic credentials, teaching and research posts, scientific activities and honors filled a 20 - page curriculum vitae, topped by longtime roles as a professor at the University of Maryland and director of the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota.
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