The Fish Department - Research

Dr John Paxton Curriculum Vitae

March 2006

Name
John Richard Paxton

Date and place of birth
16 January 1938, Los Angeles, California; Australian citizen

Degrees
University of Southern California

1960 - B.A., Zoology
1965 - M.Sc., Biology
1968 - Ph.D., Biological Sciences

Employment
Australian Museum, Sydney

1968-83 - Curator of Fishes
1983-87 - Scientific Officer
1987-89 - Research Scientist
1989-94 - Senior Research Scientist
1994-98 - Principal Research Scientist
1998-2006 - retired Research Fellow
2006-present - retired Senior Research Fellow

Other Positions

1968-78 - Research Associate, Ichthyology, Los Angeles County Museum Natural History;
1969-76 - Part-time Lecturer, School Biol. Sci., Macquarie Uni.;
1977-85 - Honorary Associate, Biol. Sci., Macquarie Uni.;
1982-85/1992-96 - Associate Editor (Vertebrates/ Fishes), Records Australian Museum;
1982-1998 - Editorial Board, Indo-Pacific Fishes, Bishop Museum;
1984-93, 99-pres. - Standing Committee/Scientific Advisory Committee, Indo-Pacific Fish Conference;
1989-pres. - Scientific Associate, Taronga Zoo;
1991-98 - Advisory Editorial Board., Cybium (J. Soc. Francaise d' Ichtyol.);
1993-pres. - IUCN Species Survival Commission, Shark Specialist Group;
1994-98 - Honorary Teaching Associate, School Biol. Sci., Uni. Sydney;
1995, 97 -Visiting Lecturer, Institute Marine Science, Uni. New South Wales;
1996 - Visiting Professor, Ocean Research Institute, Uni. Tokyo;
1998-2003 - N.S.W. Fisheries Scientific Committee (for threatened species), Deputy Chair

Honours

1962-64 - Allan Hancock Foundation Fellowship, Uni. South. Cal.;
1965 - Stoye Prize, ichthyology student paper, American Society Ichthyologists Herpetologists;
1982 - Honorary Member, Ichthyology Society China;
1991-pres .- Honorary Life Member, Australian Society Fish Biology;
1995-pres. - Honorary Foreign Member, American Society Ichthyologists Herpetologists
1997 - K. Radway Allen Award for Outstanding Contribution to Fish or Fisheries Science, Australian Society for Fish Biology.
2000-pres. - Honorary Member, Ichthyological Society of Japan

Field Work

25 major field trips, 1961-2003, to the north and south Pacific, east and west Indian, north Atlantic and Antarctic Oceans

Teaching Experience

Lecturer: Vertebrate Biology - Macquarie Uni.; Biology of Fishes - Macquarie Uni., Uni. N.S.W.; External project supervisor, 2nd year Biol. - Uni. Sydney; External supervisor for thesis research: BSc (hons) -1; MSc - 3, PhD -3; Macquarie Uni., Uni. Sydney

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