What educational opportunities are provided by the UW Fish Collection?
Tied closely with research functions, the UW Fish Collection is the primary basis for graduate and undergraduate education in ichthyology and fisheries biology at the UW and, for that matter, in the whole of the Pacific Northwest. Enrolled in formal courses, such as “Marine Biology,” “Biology of Fishes,” and “Systematics, Zoogeography, and Evolution of Fishes,” thousands of students have used the resources of the Fish Collection in the last 30 years as part of their degree programs. Informal mentoring of undergraduates is provided as well–at any one time, there are as many as four undergraduates in the Collection, either working or conducting research under the supervision of the Curator, the Fish Collection Manager, or a graduate student in ichthyology. At the graduate level, the Fish Collection provides the basis for Master’s and Doctoral research of all kinds, from dietary studies of a single species of freshwater sculpin confined to a single watershed in Washington State to world-
