Professor, School of Fisheries; Adjunct Professor, Department of Zoology; Curator of Fishes, Burke Memorial Washington State Museum: University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195.

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.

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.

National Science Foundation Grant GB-40700: The Ceratioid Anglerfishes (Order: Lophiiformes) of the Western North Atlantic Ocean: Systematics and Distribution, 1973-1975.

National Science Foundation Grant DEB 76-82279: The Antennariid Anglerfishes (Order Lophiiformes) of the Western North Atlantic Ocean: Systematics and Distribution, 1977-1981.

National Geographic Society Grant No. 1826: Functional Morphology of the Feeding Mechanism of Shallow Water Anglerfishes of the Family Antennariidae, 1978-1979.

National Science Foundation Grant DEB 79-12184: The Care and Use of the Fish Collections of the School of Fisheries, University of Washington, 1979-1981.

National Science Foundation: Systematics and Zoogeography of Marine Shorefishes of the Family Uranoscopidae, 1985-1989.

National Science Foundation: Care and Use of the Fish Collection of the School of Fisheries, University of Washington, 1988-1991.

National Science Foundation: Systematics and Distribution of Trachinoid Fishes of the Family Champsodontidae (Teleostei: Perciformes), 1989.

National Science Foundation: Establishment of an Archival Center for Early Life History Stages of Fishes at the School of Fisheries, University of Washington, 1992-1994.

National Science Foundation, Biotic Surveys and Inventories, and International Programs: Biodiversity of the Kuril Archipelago, "Proof of Concept Award," $200,000, 1994-1995.

National Science Foundation, Biotic Surveys and Inventories: Biodiversity of the Kuril Archipelago, $1,000,000, 1995-1999.

Washington Sea Grant Program,: Integration and Dissemination of Ichthyoplankton Databases, $51,776, 1995-1996.

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, inshore, and reef fish collecting, Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Panama, and Virgin Islands, Spring 1969. 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. Survey and inventory, Kuril Islands, July-August 1994, July-September 1995.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1969, 80 scientific papers, plus 10 popular and semipopular articles and three 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. 1989. Phylogenetic relationships of trachinoid fishes of the family Uranoscopidae. Copeia, 1989(2):253-303.

Palsson, W. A., and T. W. PIETSCH. 1989. Revision of the acanthopterygian fish family Pegasidae (order Gasterosteiformes). Indo-Pacific Fishes, 18, 38 pp.

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.

PIETSCH, T. W. 1993. Systematics and Distribution of Cottid Fishes of the Genus Triglops Reinhardt (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes). Zool. J. Linn. Soc., London, 140 ms pp., 18 figs., 6 tables.

PIETSCH, T. W. 1984. A review of the frogfish genus Rhycherus Ogilby with the description of a new species from Western and South Australia. Copeia, 1983(1):68-72.

PIETSCH, T. W. 1984. Lophiiformes: Development and relationships. pp. 320-325, In: H. G. Moser, W. J. Richards, D. M. Cohen, M. P. Fahay, A. W. Kendall, Jr., and S. L. Richardson (eds.), Ontogeny and Systematics of Fishes. Amer. Soc. Ichthy. Herpet. Spec. Publ. No. 1.

PIETSCH, T. W. 1986. Systematics and distribution of bathypelagic anglerfishes of the family Ceratiidae (order: Lophiiformes). Copeia, 1986(2):479-493.

PIETSCH, T. W., and M.-L. Bauchot. 1986. Catalogue critique des types de Poissons de Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Suite) Ordre des Lophiiformes. Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., Paris, Sér. 4, Sec. A, 8:131-156.

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

PIETSCH, T. W. (editor). 1995. Historical Portrait of the Progress of Ichthyology, from Its Origins to Our Own Time. Edited and annotated by T. W. Pietsch, translated from the French by A. J. Simpson. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, xxiv + 350 pp.

PIETSCH, T. W. 1995. Fishes, Crayfishes, and Crabs: Louis Renard and His Natural History of the Rarest Curiosities of the Seas of the Indies. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Vol. 1, Commentary, xxii + 207 pp; Vol. 2, Facsimile, vii + 220 pp., 100 color pls.

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.