Carl Eldon Bond

Carl Eldon Bond (born September 11, 1920 in Culdesac , Idaho , † November 12, 2007 in Corvallis , Oregon ) was an American ichthyologist .

life and work

Carl Bond was the youngest of six children of James Richard and Anna Era Sewell Bond. When he was two years old, the family moved to Monmouth , Oregon . After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , Bond worked at Camp Adair as a civilian for the United States Army . In June 1942 he married Lenora D. Jensen in Monmouth, who later became one of his most important collaborators during his research. During World War II, Bond served three years with the Naval Construction Battalion ( Seabees ) in Sierra Leone , Honolulu, and the Midway Islands . Bond received his bachelor's degree in 1947 and his master's degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Biology from Oregon State College in 1948 . In 1950 he joined the faculty of the Department of Fish and Game Management (later Fisheries and Wildlife), where he remained for most of his career. From 1959 to 1960 Bond studied at the University of Michigan , where he received his Ph.D. PhD. Here he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa . In 1985 he retired as professor emeritus.

Bond's research focus was the bullheads (Cottidae). He has taught and had research projects in many countries including India, Iran, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and Chile. His works include the student textbook Biology of Fishes and several books on Oregon's ichthyofauna .

Memberships and honors

Bond was a member of the American Fisheries Society, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Gilbert Ichthyological Society, and the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists. In 1983, Bond was named Oregon Scientist of the Year by the Oregon Academy of Science. In 1998 he received the American Fisheries Society Award of Excellence and in 2000 the Distinguished Service Award. He was also honored by the Desert Fishes Council.

Works (selection)

• Determination of fish species and management practices best suited to farm ponds in Oregon, 1958
• Distribution and ecology of freshwater sculpins, genus cottus in Oregon, 1963
• Natural rearing of spring chinook salmon in a central Oregon reservoir: final report, 1963
• Endangered plants and animals of Oregon, 1966
• Trout streams: Conditions that determine their productivity and suggestions for stream and lake management, 1969
• Environmental considerations and the water resources of the Silvies Basin, 1971
• Keys to Oregon freshwater fishes, 1973
• Ichthyology workbook, 1973
• Field guide to common marine & bay fishes of Oregon, 1984
• Biology of Fishes, 1996

literature

• Ole-Tilakum. Volume 4, Number January 3, 2008. Newsletter of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Pp. 2-3. PDF, online
• American men and women of science: The physical and biological sciences , Volume 1. 16th edition. Jaques Cattell Press. Bowker, 1986. p. 605
• Margaret M. Stewart & Gerald R. Smith: Carl & Lenora Bond. In: Copeia, 2002 (4), pp. 1154-1156

Web links

• A Tribute to Carl Bond