ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS March 2005


Principle Investigators

Dr. Heidi Dewar

Dr. Stephen Karl

John O’Sullivan

Dr. Todd Streelman

Dr. Tierney Thys

Domestic Project Collaborators

CALIFORNIA

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Charles Farwell

San Diego

Mike Johnson

FLORIDA

Anna Bass

Andrey Castro

Cecilia Puchulutegu

International Tagging Collaborators

TAIWAN

Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute staff

Dr. I.Chiu Liao

Stephen Huang

Dr. Mao Sen Su

Dr. C. H. Chen

Dr. W.C. S

SOUTH AFRICA

Two Oceans Aquarium staff

Mike deMaine

Dr. Patrick Garratt

Michael Farquhar

David Christie

Nathalie Nicolaai

Ed Hall

Anthony Lennox

Gerhard Beukes

Said Manchest

JAPAN

Kamogawa Seaworld gracious staff

Dr. Teruo Tobayama

Makoto Soichi

AUSTRALIA

Alan Corbett

CSIRO Marine Research

Dr. John Gunn

Toby Patterson

Additional International Collaborators

INDONESIA

Dr. Mark Erdmann

Bali Hai Divers

Michael Cortenbach

Chris Paporakis

Hasanuddin University

Dr. Joeharnani Tresnati

Dr. Ambo Tuwo

Aidah Husain

SCOTLAND

Natural Museums of Scotland

Dr. Geoff Swinney

And to all those kind folks who’ve recorded their sightings on the website form and shared their enthusiasm for these remarkable fish.

 

Tissue Samples Provided by

Jan Wissema/ Capricorn Fisheries (South Africa)

David Christie (South Africa)

Rance Allen/Miguel's Diving Gorontalo (Indonesia)

Clive Brown (Great Britain)

Richard Lord (Great Britain)

Geoff Swinney (Scotland)

Philip Smith (Scotland)


Tissue Samples Provided by (contd)

Annamaria Lilla Mariotti (Italy)

Franco Caffarena (Italy)

Filippo Peragallo (Italy)

Jochen D'Urso (Italy)

Carmine Masi (Italy)

Matteo Gherone (Italy)

Enzo Bisacchi (Italy)

Mike deMaine (South Africa)

Malcolm Smale (South Africa)

Wolfgang Sterrer (Bermuda)

Lisa Greene (Bermuda)

Judy Clee (Bermuda)

Doug Adams (Florida)

Mike Tringali (Florida)

Zachary Lutjens (Florida)

Pam Dobson (Florida)

Claudine Bartels (Florida)

NMFS observer program (California)

Dan Cartamil (California)

Lori K Benson (Hawaii)

Mark Erdmann (Indonesia)

Johnson Seeto (Fiji)

Mark McGrouther (Australia)

Mu Shiuan Shie (Taiwan)

Stephen Huang (Taiwan)

Kamagawa Seaworld staff (Japan)

Additional Special Thanks

George Benz

Block Lab

Census of Marine Life

Sylvia A. Earle

Fisheries Cooperative Association of Kamogawa

Ellen Freund

Yatsugi Genta

Chris Harrold

Doug Herdson

Brett Hobson

Dave Johnson

Mathieu KempEddie Kisfaludy

Yoshitaka Kondo

Dao-Zen Kuo

Huai-Tsang Li

Gale Mead

Masumi Mizunuma

Moana Productions

Kazuyuki Mori

Mike Moser

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Center

Toshiyuki Nakatsubo

Nicole Nasby

Yuji Okada

Rick Powers

Tim Rock

Emma Rolfe

Jim Tyler

Toshikazu Sakamoto

Peter Scoones

Mark Shelley

James Tyler

Yoshimichi Saito

Makoto Soichi

V.S. Somvanshi

Su-Ming Tsai

Two Oceans Aquarium staff

Tom Williams

Hong Young Yan

Huang brothers

Torleif Lindell (Norway)

Frode Fossli (Norway)

Jennifer Sternang (Norway)

Benjamin Fossli Sternang (Norway)

 


RESEARCH FUNDING
AND SUPPORT PROVIDED
BY

National Geographic
Committee
for

Research and Exploration

Microsoft Corporation

Sea Studios Foundation

Monterey Bay
Aquarium

Taiwan Fisheries
Research Institute

The Lindbergh Foundation

Smithsonian Visiting
Research Fellowship

University of South Florida,
Tampa

Census of Marine Life

Pfleger Institute of
Marine Science (PIER)

Women’s International
Science Collaboration
 (WISC)

Stephen Drogen

Arcadia Wildlife Preserve, Inc

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