How many members of the American Society
of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists have an educated opinion, or even care very much, about climate change?
The 28 June letter was signed by leaders of the following organizations: AAAS; American Chemical Society; American Geophysical Union; American Institute of Biological Sciences; American Meteorological Society; American Public Health Association; American Society of Agronomy; American Society
of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; American Society of Naturalists; American Society of Plant Biologists; American Statistical Association; Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography; Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation; Association of Ecosystem Research Centers; BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium; Botanical Society of America; Consortium for Ocean Leadership; Crop Science Society of America; Ecological Society of America; Entomological Society of America; Geological Society of America; National Association of Marine Laboratories; Natural Science Collections Alliance; Organization of Biological Field Stations; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Society for Mathematical Biology; Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; Society of Nematologists; Society of Systematic Biologists; Soil Science Society of America; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
«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.
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.
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.
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.
«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.
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.»
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.
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.
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).
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.
A fine portrait
of the groundbreaking
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.