Professor, Associate Director, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Department of Zoology; Curator of Fishes, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture: University of Washington, Seattle, 98195.

EDUCATION:

B.A. Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1967.

M.S. Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1969.

Ph.D. Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1973.

Postdoctoral position, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1975.

POSITIONS:

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, California State University, Long Beach, California, 1975-1978.

Assistant Professor and Curator of Fishes, School of Fisheries, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1978-1981.

Associate Professor and Curator of Fishes, School of Fisheries, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1981-1984.

Professor and Curator of Fishes, School of Fisheries, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1984-present.

Associate Director, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, 1996-present.

HONORS:

Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, 1984; Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, 1988; Fellow and past President of the Gilbert Ichthyological Society, 1989; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1996; President of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetology, 1997; Fellow of the University of Washington Teaching Academy.

SELECTED GRANTS:

National Science Foundation, “Ceratioid Anglerfishes (Order: Lophiiformes) of the Western North Atlantic Ocean: Systematics and Distribution,” 1973-1975.

NSF, “Care and Use of the Fish Collection of the School of Fisheries, University of Washington,” 1979-1981.

NSF, “Systematics of Marine Shorefishes of the Family Uranoscopidae,” 1985-1989.

NSF, “Care and Use of the Fish Collection, School of Fisheries, University of Washington,” $272,404, 1988-1991.

NSF, “Establishment of an Archival Center for Early Life History Stages of Fishes at the School of Fisheries, University of Washington,” $155,194, 1992-1994.

NSF, Biotic Surveys and Inventories, and International Programs, “Biodiversity of the Kuril Archipelago,” "Proof of Concept Award," $200,000, 1994-1995.

NSF, Biotic Surveys and Inventories, “Biodiversity of the Kuril Archipelago,” $1,540,103, 1995-2001.

NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, “Archival Dissemination of Data on Northwest Pacific Fish Eggs and Larvae, $55,000, 1999-2001.

NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, “Training and Curation for the NMFS Domestic Observer Program,” $76,390, 1999-2002.

NSF, Biotic Surveys and Inventories, “Biodiversity of Sakhalin Island,” $391,128, 1995-2001.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Member and occasionally chief scientist of research cruises to Southern California basins and open ocean aboard the University of Southern California Research Vessel, R/V VELERO IV; ecology of the midwaters, 1967-1973. Freshwater fish collecting, southern Mexico, Spring 1972. Cruise 33, R/V KNORR, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Puerto Rico to Bermuda, mid-water and benthic fish collecting, March 1974. Marine fish collecting, Puget Sound and associated waters, especially San Juan Islands, numerous trips, 1978-present. Freshwater fish collecting, Olympic Peninsula, coastal drainages and Lake Ozette, numerous trips, 1978-present. Fisheries Development Program for UNPATTI, Pattimura University, Ambon, Molucca Islands, Indonesia, sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development, Summer 1980. Marine fish collecting, Oahu, Guam, Palau and Ambon, Summer 1980. Marine fish collecting, Sydney Harbor, Australia, Fall 1981. Biotic survey and inventory, Kuril Islands, July-August 1994-2000.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1969, about 100 scientific papers, plus 12 popular and semipopular articles and four books, on the systematics, evolutionary osteology, functional morphology, distribution, zoogeography, and behavior of fishes, and on the history of ichthyology.

Five titles most relevant to the present proposal:

PIETSCH, T. W., and D. B. Grobecker. 1987. Frogfishes of the World: Systematics, Zoogeography, and Behavioral Ecology. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, xxii + 420 pp.

PIETSCH, T. W. 1993. Systematics and Distribution of Cottid Fishes of the Genus Triglops Reinhardt (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes). Zool. J. Linn. Soc., London, 109(4): 335-393.

Saruwatari, T., J. A. López, and T. W. PIETSCH. 1997. A revision of the osmerid genus Hypomesus Gill (Teleostei: Salmoniformes), with the description of a new species from the southern Kuril Islands. Species Diversity, 2(1):59-82.

López, J. A., P. Bentzen, and T. W. PIETSCH. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships of esocoid fishes (Teleostei) based on partial cytochrome b and 16S mitochondrial DNA sequences. Copeia, 2000(2):420-431.

PIETSCH, T. W., K. Amaoka, D. E. Stevenson, E. L. MacDonald, B. K. Urbain, and J. A. López. Submitted. Freshwater fishes of the Kuril Islands and adjacent regions. Species Diversity, 54 ms pp., 2 figs., 1 table.

PIETSCH, T. W., and C. P. Zabetian. 1990. Osteology and interrelationships of the sand lances (Perciformes: Ammodytidae). Copeia, 1990(1):78-100.

Shedlock, A. M., J. D. Parker, D. A. Crispin, T. W. PIETSCH, and G. C. Burmer. 1992. Evolution of the Salmonid Mitochondrial Control Region. Molec. Phylogen. Evol., 1(3):179-192.

Bertelsen, E., and T. W. PIETSCH. 1996. A revision of the deep-sea anglerfish genus Lasiognathus (Lophiiformes: Thaumatichthyidae), with the description of a new species. Copeia, 1996(2):401-409.

Shedlock, A. M., M. G. Haygood, T. W. PIETSCH, and P. Bentzen. 1997. Enhanced DNA extraction and PCR amplification of mitochondrial genes from formalin-fixed museum Specimens. BioTechniques, 22(3):394-400.

Stewart, A. L., and T. W. PIETSCH. 1998. The ceratioid anglerfishes (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) of New Zealand. J. Roy. Soc. N. Z., 28(1):1-37.

UNDERGRADUATE, GRADUATE, AND POST-DOCTORAL STUDENTS ADVISED IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS (ABOUT 120 TOTAL SINCE 1975):

A. M. Kiernan, C. P. Zabetian, J. H. Stadler, V. P. Scholey, Y. Shi, G. C. Jensen, R. Walker, C. Pfister, V. L. Butler, J. K. Wetterer, M. E. Lonzarich, A. M. Shedlock, D. D. Stearn, J. A. López, D. E. Stevenson, M. W. Brogan, T. Saruwatari, E. L. MacDonald, K. Dodd, J. McCombs, K. M. Kay

COLLABORATORS OTHER THAN THOSE CITED ABOVE:

William D. Anderson, Jr., J. Richard Dunn, James W. Orr, Brian K. Urbain, L. B. Holthuis, Wayne A. Palsson, Viktor V. Bogatov, Kunio Amaoka, Mamoru Yabe, Paul Bentzen

GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL ADVISORS:

Arnold G. Kluge, Basil G. Nafpaktitis, Jay M. Savage, Karel F. Liem