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[Annelida] International Polychaete Day at WoRMS - Kristian Fauchald publications

T. Ganesh via annelida%40net.bio.net (by tganesh.es from gmail.com)
Wed Jul 1 23:28:30 EST 2015


Dear  João Gil:
Greetings form India!
Thank you for the great effort to compile Kristian's great contributions.
Cheers the International Polychaete Day!
Sincerely,
T.Ganesh

On 01/07/2015, JOAO CARLOS.FERREIRA.GIL.23872 <gil from ceab.csic.es> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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