Dear colleagues and friends,
As you know, Kristian Fauchald was the founding editor of WoRMS
Polychaeta. To celebrate this First International Polychaete Day and
Kristian’s life, work, and 80th birthday, Kristian’s publications were
corrected, revised and updated at the WoRMS’ bibliographic databases.
With a few exceptions (very few) all Kristian’s publications are know
linked to online pdfs whenever available (or websites where you can
find or read them), and include abstracts, doi numbers, or cited taxa.
Note however that not all publications are open access. There are also
3 or 4 important papers still not available online, but it will be a
question of time they become available too. It was not possible to
find a couple of “grey literature” references, in order to check the
originals.
You can find all these papers using the “Search literature” button,
and performing the search as “search – author – contains – Fauchald”.
Some random highlights:
Kristian published his first papers in 1961, one on Pogonophora from
Norway, co-authored with Hans Brattström:
http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=68665
and the second one on the crab *Pirimela denticulata*, also from Norway:
http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=68664
What many of you might ignore, and correct me if I’m wrong, is that
his first work, which was published in 1962, was on land snails from
the region of Kristiansand (Norway), and included the following
abstract:
“This article, chosen as best in a contest among high school students,
presents the data from an investigation on snails in the Kristiansand
area, South Norway. Besides the 17 species found by the author it
gives all the species recorded in the area.”
http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=52563
You can download a copy of this rare paper in Norwegian here (sorry, no OCR):
https://app.box.com/s/7tm55kdq2m2b8h0l2aqji2ljy1cn1i9r
From 1963 on, he never stopped working and publishing on polychaetes,
starting with the Norwegian nephtyids:
http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=49771
For a complete list of all Kristian Fauchald’s taxa, check the
compilation curated by Geoff Read here:
http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=198042
In 1969 Kristian presented his PhD dissertation at the University of
Southern California, with the title “Zoogeography and ecology of
polychaetous annelids of the super-family Eunicea off western Mexico”.
This thesis is available through the Digital Library of the University
of Southern California, you can find the link here:
http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=53374
A version of his thesis was published later, in 1970, as “Polychaetous
annelids of the families Eunicidae, Lumbrineridae, Iphitimidae,
Arabellidae, Lysaretidae and Dorvilleidae from western Mexico”, by the
Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology:
http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=49779
There are some interesting references of “grey literature”, where you
can see how Kristian accepted criticism, recognizing the problems and
limitations of his own past (and even present) works, and how he saw
the progress in science. Below is an extract of a communication
published at “Current Contents” in 1992, where Kristian speaks about
the seminal Fauchald & Jumar’s “The diet of worms”, co-authored with
Peter Jumars in 1979, when the paper had already reached 245 citations:
“Many of our conclusions in “The Diet” are outdated. We were wrong,
even spectacularly wrong sometimes. We are now in the second
“post-diet” generation of papers citing the first “post-diet”
generation, and still, sometimes, “The Diet” itself. Second-generation
papers sometimes use the terminology Peter and I invented nearly 20
years ago, without quoting source. This is as it should be: “The Diet”
is becoming hidden behind layers of investigations with better results
and better theory, in part as consequence of its existence.”
http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=198046
In the process of tracing available online pdfs on the web, we have
found some memorabilia (thanks to the Digital Library of the
University of Southern California) that might indeed bring memories to
some of you, and thought to be interesting to picture Kristian’s life
and work (maybe as references for a future Wikipedia article on
Kristian Fauchald?):
From: “Daily Trojan”, Vol. 59, no. 32, front page (November 01, 1967):
Title: “Research ship probes gulf for ocean animals”
“Also part of the marine biological studies to be conducted is the
use of a 900-pound grab, or excavating shovel. Kristian Fauchald,
scientific cruise leader working on his Ph.D. at USC, will direct the
use of the grab as he seeks samples of polychaete worms.”
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll104/id/81172
From the University of Southern California “Alumni Review”, Vol. 49,
no. 3 (Spring, 1968):
Title (in page 12) “Headquarters – Hancock Hall”
Page 15:
“Recently, the Velero provided the means for an important discovery in
the Gulf of California's nearly oxygenless depths. Baja's deep basins,
previously believed to be uninhabited, are teeming with animal life,
according to Hancock scientists. Cruise director Kristian Fauchald, a
young Norwegian working toward his doctorate in marine biology,
supervised 60 hauls made with the Campbell grab, a 900-pound apparatus
that scoops up samples from the ocean floor. "Probably there are
species of animals among the bottom dwellers that have never been
classified or studied," he said.”
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll104/id/235647
From: “Daily Trojan”, Vol. 62, no. 68, page 5 (February 12, 1971):
Title: “Bio class plans trip to Catalina”
“The remainder of the trip will include a tour of the Santa Catalina
Island Marine Biological Laboratory, and guest lectures by Dr. Nancy
Nicholson on marine plants, and Dr. Christain [sic] Fauchald on
invertebrates.”
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll104/id/81578
My favorite:
“El Rodeo”, page 266 (1971) – fourth photograph from the left, in the
first row...
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll104/id/22525
From “Daily Trojan”, Vol. 64, no. 71, page 6 (February 17, 1972)
Title: “Bio prof digs worms”
“Kristian Fauchald, assistant professor of biological sciences,
cruised to Tahiti via the Pitcairn Islands last semester – but he
didn’t studied the girls, he studied worms along the way”
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll104/id/85292
From “Daily Trojan”, Vol. 70, no. 52, page 2 (December 10, 1976):
Title: “Worm library offers quiet study”
“With finals coming up, you might be looking for a quiet,
out-of-the-way place to study. If the more popular libraries are too
crowded or noisy to use, you might consider the worm library, where
you can curl up with your notes, books and nearly 3,000 worms. The
library is part of a lab in the Alan Hancock Foundation headed by
Kristian Fauchald. Eleven students work in the lab, which they call
“The Great American Worm Farm.” “
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll104/id/99994
Happy International Polychaete Day!
Cheers,
João Gil