2001 Board of Governors - Ballots for Gibbs Committee | ASIH - American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology

BOARD OF GOVERNORS - BALLOT FOR GIBBS COMMITTEE - 2001

BALLOT - ASIH BOFG ELECTION 2001 - GIBBS COMMITTEE MEMBER

Gibbs Committee (vote for 1)

_____ Hank Bart,
Associate Professor and Museum Director and Curator of Fishes, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Tulane University and Tulane Museum of Natural History.
ASIH Service: Local Committee Meeting in Norman 1984, New Orleans 1996, Session Moderator, Stoye Award Paper Session 1992, Systematics and Genetics of Fishes 1996, Morphology and Behavior of Fishes 1997, Stoye Award Judge, 1997, 1998, Supplies and Resources Subcommittee of Collections Committee 1993-1996, Board of Governors 1996-present, Ichthyological Animal Care Committee 1998-99, Joint AFS-ASIH Committee to Revise Guidelines on Use of Fishes in Research 1998-present.
Research Interests: Ecology, morphology and systematics of freshwater fishes and necturid salamanders.

_____ Chris Taylor,
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University Mississippi State.
ASIH Service: Raney Award 1991, Reviewer for Copeia, Stoye Award Judge 1996, Board of Governors 1999.
Research Interests: Community ecology of stream fishes, largescale ecology and conservation biology of fishes.

_____ Robert M. Wood,
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis.
ASIH Service: Board of Governors- Class of 2003, Copeia Editorial Board- 1996-99; Stoye Award Judge- 1996, 1997, 1998.
Research Interests: Molecular Systematics of North American freshwater fishes, population genetics and speciation in highlands fishes.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ICHTHYOLOGISTS AND HERPETOLOGISTS
ELECTION - 2001

President-elect (vote for 1)

_____ Larry Page
Principal Scientist, Center for Biodiversity, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign; Adjunct Professor, Departments of Animal Biology, and Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Champaign; Program Director, Biotic Surveys and Inventories, and Biological Research Collections, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
ASIH Service: Treasurer,1992-2000, Executive Committee 1992-2001, Board of Governors 1986 2001, Endowment and Finance Committee 1992-2001 (Chair 2001), Local Host for National Meeting 1992, Editorial Board 1984-1985, 1987-1992, Representative to Association of Systematics Collections 1993-2000, Time, Place and Program Committee 1991-1992, Stoye Award Judge- various years, Session Moderator- various years.
Research Interests: Systematics, evolution, and ecology of freshwater fishes and crustaceans, protection of aquatic natural areas.

_____ Ed Wiley
Senior Curator, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence; Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence; Research Associate, Division of Fishes, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.
ASIH Service: Board of Governors 1977-1981, 1983-1988,1991-1996, 1998-present., Ichthyological Collections Committee 1981-1983, Chair Nominating Committee 1983, Chair Resolutions Committee 1985.
Research Interests: Evolutionary relationships and biogeography of fishes using morphological and molecular data, theory and practice of phylogenetic systematics, predictive niche modeling of species and clades using neural networks, use of database and internet technologies to access fish databases on a world-wide basis.

Genetics, Development, and Morphology editor (vote for 1)

_____ Robert M. Wood
Assistant Professor of Biology, Saint Louis University, 3507 Laclede, St. Louis, MO 63103-2010.
ASIH Service: Board of Governors- Class of 2003, Copeia Editorial Board- 1996-99; Stoye Award Judge- 1996, 1997, 1998.
Research Interests: Molecular Systematics of North American freshwater fishes, population genetics and speciation in highlands fishes.

Chair of the Nominating Committee (vote for 1)

_____ Janalee P. Caldwell,
Curator of Amphibians, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and Professor of Zoology, University of Oklahoma.
ASIH Service: Co-editor, General Herpetology 1988 - 1991, Board of Governors 1992-1997, 1999-2004, Stoye Award Judge 1993, 1997.
Research Interests: My research focuses on the ecology, behavior, and systematics of tropical amphibians.

_____ Laurie Vitt,
Professor of Zoology, Curator of Reptiles, and Associate Director of Collections and Research, University of Oklahoma, Norman.
ASIH Service: Co-Editor, General Herpetology for Copeia 1988-1991, Board of Governors 1984-1987, Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Student Participation in ASIH 1983-1987, Nominating Committee 2000-2001.
Research Interests: Lizard ecology and behavior.

Nominating Committee (vote for 2)

Ichthyology

_____ Carole Baldwin,
Museum Specialist , Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
ASIH Service: Nominating Committee 1994-1995, Stoye Award Judge 1995, 1997, 1999, Copeia Editorial Board 1997-2000, Mentor in Equal Participation 2000.
Research Interests: Systematics of tropical marine and deep-sea fishes, biogeography of the tropical eastern Pacific; utility of marine fish larvae in phylogenetic studies; marine conservation.

_____ Kathleen Cole,
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
ASIH Service: Long Range Planning and Policy Committee 1998-2001, Program Planning Committee 1999-2002, Stoye or Storer Award 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, Symposium Co Organizer/Co-Chair 1996.
Research Interests: Evolution and biology of gobioid fishes, reproductive behavior, spawning and reproductive success in egg-guarding fishes, functional sex-change, patterns of hermaphroditism with respect to teleost phylogeny, gonad ontogeny and developmental morphology, life history specializations of obligate coral-dwelling and extreme habitat fishes.

_____ Deanna Stouder,
Program Manager, Aquatic and Lands Interactions, Olympia Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Olympia.
ASIH Service: Committee for 75th Anniversary of Copeia 1984-1988, Committee for Graduate Student Participation 1984-1989 (Chair 1987-1989), Session Chair 1989, ad Hoc Committee on Selection of Nominating Committee 1990-1992, Chair Stoye Award Committee Ecology/Ethology 1992, Myvanwy M. Dick Award Committee in Ichthyology 1992, Raney Award Committee 1993, Board of Governors 1993-1997, Long Range Planning Committee 1995-2000, Stoye Award Committee Ecology/Ethology 1996, Chair Stoye Award Committee Ecology/Ethology 1997, ad Hoc Committee on Stoye Award Ecology/Ethology 1997-1998, Nominating Committee 1997-1999 (Chair 1998-1999), ad Hoc Program Planning Committee Member 1999-2000, Program Planning Committee Member 2000-present, Board of Governors 2000-2004.
Research Interests: Feeding ecology of freshwater, marine and estuarine fishes, fish behavioral responses to changes in habitat and resource abundance, influences and integration of socio economic factors on ecosystem management, restoration and conservation.

Herpetology (vote for one)

_____ Lee Fitzgerald,
Assistant Professor and Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection, Texas A and M University, College Station. ASIH Service: Copeia Editorial Board 1996-present, Gaige Awards Committee 1997-2000 (Chair 2000).
Research Interests: Population and community ecology of amphibians and reptiles, herpetological conservation, tropical biology, sustainability.

_____ Al Savitsky,
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominin University, Norfolk.
ASIH Service: President 1998, Executive Committee 1997-2000, Board of Governors 1982-1986, 1989-1994, 1996-1997, Long Range Planning and Finance Committee, Nominating Committee (including Chair), Planning Committee for Copeia Anniversary, Public Affairs Committee, Stoye Award Judge.
Research Interests: Evolutionary, functional, and developmental morphology of amphibians and reptiles, especially feeding and defensive adaptations of snakes; morphology of elastic tissues in frogs and snakes; conservation biology of rattlesnakes and other herpetofauna.

_____ Margaret Stewart,
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, SUNY at Albany.
ASIH Service: Conservation Committee, Board of Governors, Time and Place Committee, Copeia General Herpetology Editor, Nominating Committee, Annual Meeting Co-host, President-elect, President, Historian.
Research Interests: Amphibian population and community studies.

_____ Linda Trueb,
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence; Curator, Division of Herpetology, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
ASIH Service: Publications Secretary 1980-1985, Herpetological Resources Committee 1987 1991, President 1992, Board of Governors 1994-present, Committee for Special Publications- 1995-1998.
Research Interests: Amphibian systematics and morphology, phylogenetic relationships of anurans (fossil and recent), anuran osteology and development.

_____ Richard Wassersug,
Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax.
ASIH Service: Board of Governors1976-1980,1981-1986, Committee on Trafficking in Amphibians and Reptiles for Scientific Purposes1979-1981, Chair Committee on Workshop Planning and Policy 1984-1985, Nominating Committee 1983-1985, Time Place and Program Committee 1985-1987, Editorial Board of Copeia 1982-1985. Research Interests:
Biology of anuran larvae.

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Board of Governors -- Ichthyology

_____ Adriana E. Aquino,
Research Associate and Scientific Content Specialist, Department of Ichthyology and Department of Education, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
ASIH Service: Reviewer for Copeia.
Research Interests: Morphology-based systematics, particularly of the catfish family Loricariidae, comparative anatomy of siluriforms level, characid taxonomy, interactions between scientists and teachers.

_____ Jon Armbruster,
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn.
ASIH Service: Local committee for Annual Meetings in Champaign 1992, Stoye Award Judge 1998.
Research Interests: Phylogenetics of loricariid catfishes, evolution of accessory
respiration in loricariid catfishes, behavior and ecology of North and South American fishes.

_____ Kathleen S. Cole,
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
ASIH Service: Long Range Planning and Policy Committee 1998-2001, Program Planning Committee 1999-2002, Stoye or Storer Award 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, Symposium Co Organizer/Co-Chair 1996.
Research Interests: Evolution and biology of gobioid fishes, reproductive behavior, spawning and reproductive success in egg-guarding fishes, functional sex-change, patterns of hermaphroditism with respect to teleost phylogeny, gonad ontogeny and developmental morphology, life history specializations of obligate coral-dwelling and extreme habitat fishes.

_____ Marlis Douglas,
Assistant Professor, Fishery and Wildlife Biology Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
ASIH Service: Editorial Assistant for Copeia 1995-1998, Resolutions Committee 2000, Reviewer for Copeia, Notetaker for Editorial Policy Meetings.
Research Interests: Evolution of biodiversity of fishes, conservation biology, molecular genetics, biogeography, and geomorphometrics in relation to taxonomy and ontogeny, European and southwestern U.S. fishes.

_____ Michael J. Ghedotti,
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Regis University, Denver.
ASIH Service: Reviewer for Copeia.
Research Interests: Morphology of cyprinodontiform fishes, phylogenetic studies of cyprinodontiform fishes, alpha-level systematics of anablepid and fundulid fishes.

_____ Antony Harold,
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, College of Charleston, SC.
ASIH Service: Session Chair- 1993, Reviewer for Copeia- multiple times, Stoye Award Judge- 1999.
Research Interests: Phylogenetic systematics, biogeography and other aspects of comparative biology of teleosts, especially Gobiidae, Sternoptychidae, Characidae, Bregmacerotidae and Blenniidae.

_____ Nathan Lovejoy,
Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
ASIH Service: Reviewer for Copeia.
Research Interests: Systematics and biogeography of fishes, evolution of marine-derived fishes in South America, including stingrays and needlefishes, use of phylogeny for interpreting other aspects of organismal biology, such as population structure and development.

_____ Bill Matthews,
Professor and Curator of Fishes, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Norman.
ASIH Service: Ecology and Ethology Editor 1990-1994, Editorial Board- Copeia 1994-1996, Board of Governors 1985-90, 1993-98, Long-range Planning and Finance Committee 1984-87, Endowment Committee 1993-94, Chair or Member of student paper/poster judging committees - multiple times.
Research Interests: Long-term changes in stream fish assemblages, effects of fish on ecosystem processes, distribution and ecology of stream fishes of central US, ecology of reservoir fishes.

_____ Frank McCormick,
Research Ecologist, US Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Cincinnati.
ASIH Service: Co-chair Environmental Quality Committee (ENQC) 1998-present, Member ENQC1994-present, Organizer ENQC Conservation Symposium 1998, Resolutions Committee 1998-1999, Stoye Award Judge 1998, Local Committee 1984.
Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of freshwater fishes, stressor-response relationships of stream fishes, abiotic factors affecting stream fish distributions, patterns of gene flow of upland stream fishes, systematics and relationships of the Percidae.

_____ Martin O'Connell
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans.
ASIH Service: Local Committee for Meeting in New Orleans 1996, Reviewer for Copeia 1997 1999.
Research Interests: Southeastern fishes, ecology of streams/floodplains, immunological responses fish hosts to mussel glochidia, stream invertebrate diversity, fish foraging behavior, conservation of threatened/endangered freshwater fishes and mussels, estuarine fish assemblages.

_____ Mark Peterson,
Associate Professor, Department of Coastal Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs.
ASIH Service: Session Chair 1993, 1996, Stoye Award Judge, Student Paper Judge Southeastern ASIH, Reviewer for Copeia, Field trip organizer 1996 Annual Meeting, Secretary Treasurer/President-Elect/President Southeastern Division ASIH 2000-2003.
Research Interests: Fish resource ecology and ecological physiology, habitat-use of fishes and decapods.

_____ Mario de Pinna,
Associate Professor, Setor de Ictiologia, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. ASIH Service: Reviewer for Copeia.
Research Interests: Systematics, phylogeny and evolution of fishes, especially siluriforms from South America, Africa and Southeast Asia, species-level problems, phylogeny and evolution of feeding strategies in parasitic trichomycterid catfishes, higher-level problems of lower teleostean phylogeny, especially relationships between clupeomorphs and ostariophysans.

_____ Stephen T. Ross,
Professor and Curator of Fishes, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.
ASIH Service: Endowment Committee 1999- present, Copeia Editor for Ecology and Ethology 1994-98, Chair, Nominating Committee 1996-97, Nominating Committee 1995-96, Chair, Stoye Awards 1994, Endowment Committee 1992-93, Nominating Committee1992-93 (Chair 1984-85), Stoye Award Judge 1992, Editorial Board 1984-86, 1991-92, Board of Governors 1981-86, 1988 93, Stoye Award Judge 1988, Representative to American Fisheries Society 1987-90, President, Southeastern Division ASIH 1985-86, Vice-President, Southeastern Division ASIH 1984-1985, Secretary-Treasurer, Southeastern Division ASIH 1983-1984.
Research Interests: Ecological and evolutionary relationships of fishes, stream fish microhabitat selection, environmental impacts on persistence and stability of fish assemblages, ecology of surf zone fishes, conservation biology, anadromous fishes- especially sturgeon.

_____ Chris Thacker,
Assistant Curator of Ichthyology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles. ASIH Service: Reviewer for Copeia.
Research Interests: Systematics, evolution, ontogeny and biogeography of marine acanthomorph fishes, particularly gobies.

_____ Bruce Thompson,
Associate Professor for Research, Coastal Fisheries Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
ASIH Service: Local Committee for Annual Meetings 1970, 1996, Session Moderator 1992, 1995, Storer Award Judge 1998, 1999, Resolutions Committee 2000, Stoye Award Committee 2000.
Research Interests: Taxonomy, systematics and life history of percid, fundulid, percophid and paralichthyid fishes, habitat and life history of
Gulf of Mexico sharks, imperiled species, exotic species.

_____ Mark W. Westneat,
Associate Curator of Zoology, Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. ASIH Service: Chair Committee on Graduate Student Participation 1989-90, Reviewer for Copeia, RaneyAward 1988, Stoye Award 1987.
Research Interests: Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of tropical marine fishes, molecular evolution, evolutionary biomechanics, and phylogeny of Labridae and Scaridae, functional morphology and physiology of vertebrates, modeling of vertebrate musculoskeletal systems.

_____ ___________________________________________(Write-In)
Additional nominations may be presented from the floor at the annual business meeting. All nominations shall be accompanied by a brief statement of qualifications and a written statement of willingness to serve from the nominee.
BOG-- Herpetology

_____ Ronald Brooks,
Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Guelph, Ontario;
ASIH Service: Reviewer for Copeia, Local Committee for Annual Meeting in Guelph 1998. Research Interests: Ecology, behavior, life history evolution and conservation of reptiles, especially turtles and snakes, demography and reproductive behavior of frogs and salamanders, long term population changes in small mammals.

_____ Vincent Burke,
Science Editor, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
ASIH Service: Reviewer for Copeia.
Research Interests: Turtle ecology and conservation biology, biogeography and metapopulation ecology of herpetofauna, landscape ecology.

_____ Lee Fitzgerald,
Assistant Professor and Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection, Texas A and M University, College Station. ASIH Service: Editorial Board, Copeia, 1996-present, Gaige Awards Committee, 1997-2000 (Chair 2000).
Research Interests: Population and community ecology of amphibians and reptiles, herpetological conservation, tropical biology, sustainability.

_____ Stanley Fox,
Professor of Zoology and Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians, Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.
ASIH Service: Copeia Editorial Board 1993-98, Reviewer for Copeia multiple times.
Research Interests: Lizard social organization as relating to environment, social cost of tail autotomy, tails as status-signalling badges, sexual selection and social behavior in collared lizards, dear enemy phenomenon in collared lizards, environmental effects on eggs and larvae of Patagonian anurans, effects of local and landscape-level habitat parameters on community structure of herps in the Ouachita Mountains.

_____ Maureen Kearney,
Assistant Curator, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
ASIH Service: Equal Participation Committee of ASIH, Reviewer for Copeia.
Research Interests: Comparative anatomy, systematics, and evolution of squamate reptiles; theory and methods of phylogenetic analysis.

_____ Jimmy McQuire,
Assistant Professor, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
ASIH Service: Reviewer for Copeia, Stoye Award Judge- 1999, Stoye Award Judge/Chair- 2000. Research Interests: Phylogenetic and comparative methods to address functional morphology, life history evolution, and historical biogeography, Southeast Asian flying lizards (genus Draco).

_____ David Sever,
Professor, Department of Biology, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame.
ASIH Service: Stoye Award Judge and Chair- several years, Session Chair- multiple times, Common and Scientific Names Committee- 3 years.
Research Interests: Morphology and phylogeny of secondary sexual characters of amphibians and reptiles, comparative biology of sperm storage.

_____ Erik Wild,
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.
ASIH Service: Reviewer for Copeia.
Research Interests: Systematics and ecology of reptiles and amphibians, primarily neotropical anurans, community ecology of adult and larval anurans, evolutionary and developmental morphology of Ceratophryinae, scientific illustration.

_____ ___________________________________________(Write-In)
Additional nominations may be presented from the floor at the annual business meeting. All nominations shall be accompanied by a brief statement of qualifications and a written statement of willingness to serve from the nominee.

RE-ELECTION OF INCUMBENT OFFICERS 2001
The following officers agree to serve the ASIH and need to be elected for 2001

_________Maureen A. Donnelly, Secretary

_________Margaret A. Neighbors, Treasurer

_________Michael E. Douglas, Editor

_________Frances M. Cashner - Index Co-editor

_________Jay W. Orr - Index Co-editor

_________Scott A. Schaefer - General Ichthyology Editor

_________Craig Guyer - General Herpetology Editor

_________Robert E. Gatten - Physiology and Physiological Ecology Editor

_________W. Linn Montgomery - Ecology and Ethology Editor

_________William D. Anderson -Book Review Editor ( Ichthyology)

_________Kentwood D. Wells - Book Review Editor (Herpetology)

BALLOT FOR HONORARY FOREIGN MEMBER IN ICHTHYOLOGY

BALLOT - HONORARY FOREIGN MEMBER IN ICHTHYOLOGY

_______Phillip C. Heemstra (South Africa)
Current Title: Curator of Marine Fishes
Institutional Affiliation: J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown
Previous positions: Biologist, Florida Department of Natural Resources Marine Laboratory (1963-1965); Research Assistant (part-time), National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Center (1968-1972); Research Associate, Department of Ichthyology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1972- 1974); Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Fisheries and Oceanography, Cronulla, Australia (1975 1977); Curator of Marine Fishes, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown (1978- present).
General Areas of Interest: 1. Systematics, biology (especially reproduction), ecology, zoogeography and conservation of fishes. 2. Survey of marine and freshwater fishes for conservation, management and research purposes.
Publications: More than 55 research articles, plus over 70 family accounts in Margaret M. Smith and P. C. Heemstra's 1986 Smiths' Sea Fishes, now under revision.
PHIL HEEMSTRA plays a pivotal role in our understanding of marine fishes, in particular those of the southern oceans. As a curator of marine fishes at the J.L.B. Smith Institute in South Africa for the past 23 years, he has carried out a regular program of surveys and publication on marine fishes. Smiths' Sea Fishes is an outstanding compilation of the marine fishes of the southern Indian Ocean and is now in revision in a format that extends coverage to the entire Western Indian Ocean. As such, it will be an even more important resource than the original. Phil has served as a South African liaison for many ASIH members, and ichthyologists worldwide. His taxonomic investigations of fishes of the marine percomorph families such as the Serranidae, Carangidae, Balistidae, and Holocentridae and various elasmobranch taxa, have reached a broad audience through publication in FAO species identification guides as well as scientific and popular journals. He has also been at the forefront of recentcoelacanth discoveries off South Africa and Madagascar. He serves as an editoria l board member of Copeia, and of Ichthyological Research, published by the Ichthyological Society of Japan. Heemstra's achievements in both research and fish biodiversity make him worthy of recognition as an Honorary Foreign Member in Ichthyology of ASIH.

_______Maurice KOTTELAT (Switzerland)
Current Title: Independent consultant and taxonomist
Institutional Affiliation: Honorary Research Associate, National University of Singapore.
Previous positions: Curator of Ichthyology, Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich, 1989-1992.
General Areas of Interest: 1. Systematics and zoogeography of Southeast Asian freshwater fishes, particularly loaches, catfishes and minnows; 2. Asian freshwater biodiversity; 3. European freshwater fishes.
Publications: More than 190 scientific and technical publications, including a major book on the freshwater fishes of Indonesia and a second on the fishes of Laos.
Maurice KOTTELAT is one of the leaders in the study of the systematics, distribution and biodiversity of Southeast Asian freshwater fishes. He has collected extensively throughout the area, described innumerable species, and contributed material to a long list of investigators, including many members of ASIH. He founded and continues to edit the highly successful journal, Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, which publishes papers on Southeast Asian and other freshwater fishes. He was the stimulus behind the multi-authored, bilingual 1993 book Freshwater fishes of Western Indonesia and Sulawesi, an ambitious field guide to 960 species of fishes, with 840 color plates, and has just recently published an equally detailed guide to the fishes of Laos. Maurice has also focused on the freshwater fishes of Europe and produced an up-to-date checklist of these fishes, a fauna that has been understudied for decades. He has served as General Secretary (1994-1997) and President (1997-2001) of the European Ichthyological Union. His activities as a consultant and technical advisor are many and varied; he is a member of the editorial board of the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, South Asian Journal of Natural History, and Annals of Tropical Research, among many other duties. It would be most fitting to honor this distinguished scientist by electing him an Honorary Foreign Member in Ichthyology of ASIH.

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