University of Miami receives stimulus funds for study of hurricane impacts on structures, ecosystems
... Brian Haus led the proposal to establish this new facility with the participation of co-Principal Investigators Robert Cowen, Maytag professor of ichthyology and UM chair of Marine Biology and Fisheries; Hans Graber, UM professor and chair of Applied Marine Physics and director of the Center for ...Canadian-based UN coral reef expert honored at world meeting in Australia
... Water, Environment and Health, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Windsor, received the Pieter Bleeker Award for Excellence in Indo-Pacific ichthyology at the 8th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (IPFC, www.ipfc2009asfb.com ) in Perth, May 31-June 5. Dr. Sale was recognized for major contributions to ...New catfish species named for museum mail supervisor
... and his keen interest in the science we do. I simply thought, here is a guy who should be honored with his own catfish." The Academy's ichthyology Collection is one of the oldest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, with 2,800 primary types. (A type is an original specimen from which the ...Researchers identify new catfish family
... becomes the 37th family of catfishes, a diverse group of fish found around the world. Discovery of new families of living vertebrates is rare; in ichthyology there have been just two new families discovered in the past 60 years: the coelacanth in 1938 and the megamouth shark in 1983. The researchers are ...