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England
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2nd Shark Trust conference at Plymouth
National Marine
Aquarium
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James Cresswell and Dr. Gilles Cuny of the University of
Bristol.
Gilles is a specialist on fossil sharks and James was his student. |
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Dr. John Morrissey, Dr. Kazunari Yano and George Burgess and myself.
John and Kazunari (et al.) are the authors of "Biology of the Megamouth Shark", the definitive work on the subject. George is the curator of the
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France
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3rd European Elasmobranch Association meeting at the Nausicaa
aquarium (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
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Dr. Pascal Deynat, me and ?
Pascal has done excellent and interesting research on elasmobranch dermal denticles. |
USA
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New York City
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Richard Ellis and me in front of a small part of his huge library.
Richard, the famous marine life painter and author has written among many other
works "The Book of Sharks" and "Great White Shark" (the
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American Museum of Natural History collections (NYC)
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Kilroy, err, Gordon was here!
At AMNH I found this note in a box with the jaws of a great hammerhead
incorrectly identified as Carcharhinus sp., i.e. an undetermined species
of the genus Carcharhinus. Gordon Hubbell quickly put that one right with his
note, so I didn't have to do it. This reminded me that I just had to visit
Gordon, which I promptly did.
Note: the British Museum of Natural History in
London, likewise had about half a dozen hammerhead jaws wrongly identified as
some Carcharhinus species, this time I was faster and told them about it
during my visit in 1998.
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Key Biscayne, Florida
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Dr. Gordon Hubbell, the world's foremost private shark jaws and teeth collector and me in his shark museum.
And what a worthwhile visit that turned out to be! I looked through his amazing
collection for two days and took hundreds of photos of his specimens. |
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Dr. José Castro and Joe Herber.
During my visit at Gordon's, José, who then still worked for the National
Marine Fisheries Service, dropped in. José is the author of "The Sharks of
North American Waters", a classic.
He is now at the famous Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, FL. |
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Kate and Gordon Hubbell, definitely two of the nicest people I've ever
met. |
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Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia, PA)
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Dr. Dominique Didier Dagit and me with the chondrocranium of a great
white shark.
Dominique is one of the world's foremost chimaera specialists and amazingly one
of her grandfathers came from Luxembourg (isn't the world small after all). |
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