Participants
Eric Anderson
Received a PhD from the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Pt., Virginia in 1984. Joined the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodversity (formerly the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology), Grahamstown, South Africa in 1989.
Main research interests:
Systematic ichthyology; palaeoichthyology; deep-sea ecology; marine zoogeography.
Current research:
Descriptive icthyology of Indian Ocean and Anarctic fishes; Study of various zoarcoid fishes; history and palaeogeography of Gondwana fishes.
Icefish cruise goals:
Procurement of additional specimens of Scotia Sea Zoarcidae to complete a descriptive paper updating many new Antarctic records since my first (1988) paper on southern eelpouts; procurement of additional specimens of the zoarcid genus Bothrocara from the South Georgia area to complete a systematic revision of that genus; procurement of fish material (tissue, whole specimens) for the collection of the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity; and get photographs of fresh specimens for the Institute's image collections.