Jean-Claude Hureau

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Jean-Claude Hureau (born June 8, 1936 in Bray-sur-Seine , Département Seine-et-Marne ) is a French ichthyologist .

Life

Hureau acquired in 1954 after the completion of the Collège Carnot in Fontainebleau the baccalaureate in mathematics . In 1956 he obtained a certificate in physics , chemistry and natural history (Certificat d'études supérieures de sciences portant sur la physique, la chimie et l'histoire naturelle, SPCN) and then a license in natural sciences in Fontainebleau. From 1960 to 1962 he accompanied French polar expeditions as a biologist and in 1962 he joined the Center national de la recherche scientifique as a research assistant at the Department of Zoology (Department of Reptiles and Fish) of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle . As part of his military service in the French Navy , Hureau worked on the Kerguelen for three months from 1963 to 1964 . He became a member of the French National Committee for Antarctic Research, returned to the Kerguelen for four months between 1965 and 1966 and received his doctorate in 1966 .

From 1967 to 1977 Hureau took part in five expeditions on the research vessel Jean Charcot . In 1970, Théodore Monod appointed him deputy director of the overseas fisheries chair at the museum. Between 1971 and 1972 he completed several stays abroad and in 1973 he taught a course at the Institut national agronomique Paris-Grignon . In the spring of 1974 he led an expedition to the French Southern and Antarctic Territories on board the research vessel Marion Dufresne and in 1975 he was transferred to Jacques Daget's chair for Aquatic Population Dynamics . From 1975 to 2001 he took part in nineteen expeditions to Antarctica or to remote areas. In 1976 he became deputy director of the Laboratory for General and Applied Ichthyology and in 1992 he was appointed professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. From 1985 to 1993 he held responsible positions in the museum's scientific council, where he was chairman of the collections and databases department.

In 1994 he was appointed President of the French National Committee on Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences and represented France at all meetings of international Antarctic scientific bodies ( Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Flora and Fauna (CCAMLR)) and international scientific programs (including BIOMASS, EPOS, EASIZ, EVOLANTA).

Hureau devoted his scientific work mainly to ichthyology and marine biology , with an emphasis on polar biotopes and especially Antarctic biotopes. Since 1980 he has been researching the evolution of the Antarctic fish species. Starting in 1968, Hureau designed several regional fish catalogs in international cooperation with UNESCO and the FAO (Northeast Atlantic, East Tropical Atlantic, Antarctica). Since 1979 he has mainly devoted himself to the establishment of computer-aided databases on fish, first the database for the management of the fish collections of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and the most important regional natural history museums (GICIM), then the extensive Fishbase database on all marine and freshwater fish in the world .

Hureau published over 200 scientific papers, these include Poissons antarctiques recoltes au cours de la XIe expédition française en Terre Adélie (1962), Biology de Chaenichthys rhinoceratus Richardson et du problème sang incolore of Chaenichthyidae, poissons des mers australes (1966) Utilization of statistiques d'ordre en taxonomie numérique (1968), Biologie comparée de quelques poissons antarctiques (Nototheniidae) (1970), La Faune ichtyologique du secteur indien de l'océan Antarctique et estimation du stock de poissons autour des îles Kerguelen (1979), Biology and Status of Exploited Atarctic Fish Stocks (1985), Fiches FAO d'identification des espèces pour les besoins de la pêche. Océan austral (1987), Catalog des poissons de l'Atlantique tropical oriental (Clofeta) (1990), Ostéologie céphalique de deux poissons perroquets (Scaridae: Teleostei) (1994), Les Banques de données sur les collections du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle: historique, structure, état actuel, intérêt pour la recherche et les relations internationales (1995), Molecular Evidence for the Origins of Antarctic Fishes: Paraphyly of the Bovichtidae and no Indication for the Monophyly of the Notothenioidei (Teleostei) (1997), Ecological Data on Trematomus hansoni, a coastal Fish from Terre Adélie (Antarctica) (2000), and Evolutionary Biology of Antarctic Organisms (2000). There are also historical studies such as Antoine Risso 1777-1845 , a volume published on the occasion of the centenary of Risso's birth (1978), or Le Siècle de Théodore Monod (2002). In 1973 he published the book Check-list of the fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean with Monod .

Hureau is married and has three children.

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SURNAME Hureau, Jean-Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ichthyologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Bray-sur-Seine , Seine-et-Marne department