Acknowledgements for Photography

John Lyons

WDNR/UW

Many people helped me collect and photograph the fishes portrayed in this website.  Their direct aid in the field, generosity of time and information, and general enthusiasm for what I was attempting is what made this project a success.  I’m extremely grateful to everyone involved.

Two people deserve to be singled out.  Dr. Phil Cochran, formerly a professor at St. Norbert College in DePere, WI, and now a professor at St. Marys University, Winona, MN, has been my longest and closest collaborator, and he has been involved in countless fish collecting expeditions and associated hi-jinks with me.  His encyclopedic knowledge of natural history in general and fishes in particular, his unfaltering support and interest, and his eclectic musical tastes helped get the whole project off the ground and kept me going at several points when the effort seemed overwhelming.  Dr. Kyle Piller, originally a Ph.D. student at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, then a post-doc with me through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and now a continuing collaborator as a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, was my main sampling and photography companion during the majority of the work.  His intelligence enlivened many a long drive, and his detailed knowledge of fish distribution, habitats, and sampling techniques was essential to the project.  His talents as a “hand model” are evident throughout the website.

For administrative support, I am particularly grateful to:

Ed Emmons, WDNR

Jim Kitchell, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Several people contributed photographs that I was either unable to get on my own or were better than any that I took:

Mary Botzet – formerly WDNR, common carp

Tom Burzynski – WDNR, rainbow trout

Gary Fandrei – Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association, Alaska, pink salmon, sockeye (kokanee) salmon

Kevin Fassbind – formerly WDNR, goldfish

Rick Focht – Douglas Island Pink and Chum, Inc., Alaska, pink salmon, sockeye (kokanee) salmon

Mike Kaminski – formerly WDNR, stonecat, Chinook salmon, northern pike

Paul Kanehl – WDNR, quillback

Paul Peeters – WDNR, longnose sucker, lake whitefish, coho salmon, Chinook salmon, pumpkinseed

Kyle Piller – formerly UW-Madison, chestnut lamprey, redside dace, Atlantic salmon

Karl Scheidegger – WDNR, brook stickleback

Gary Tomlinson – Alliant Energy, Wisconsin, white bass X striped bass hybrid

Martha Wessels – formerly WDNR, bigmouth buffalo, spotted sucker

I am indebted to the many people who collected and sent me specimens to photograph, arranged for me to accompany them on sampling trips so that I could photograph specimens, or provided detailed locality information so that I could collect particular species myself.  Undoubtedly I’ve forgotten some people, and to them, I apologize.  Their assistance was no less valuable because it’s temporarily escaped my cluttered brain.  Those that I do remember:

Hank Bart, Tulane University

Dave Bartz, WDNR

Brooks Burr, Southern Illinois University

Gary Cholwek, U.S. Geological Survey, Ashland, WI

Phil Cochran, formerly St. Norbert College, DePere, WI

Dave Day, formerly Illinois DNR

Chad Dolan, Illinois DNR

Mark Ebener, Lake Superior Inter-Tribal Fisheries and Assessment Program

Brad Eggold, WDNR

Mike Flaherty, New York Department of Environmental Conservation

Frank Fiss, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency

Kathy Hattala, New York Department of Environmental Conservation

Donovan Henry, Carbondale, IL

Dave Herzog, Missouri Department of Conservation

Mike Hoff, formerly U.S. Geological Survey, Ashland, WI

Jack Hodge, Michigan DNR

Ann Holtrip, Illinois DNR

Bob Hrabik, Missouri Department of Conservation

Kevin Irons, Illinois Natural History Survey

Wes Jahns, WDNR

Kendall Kamke, WDNR

Ray Katula, Genoa, WI

Tim Kroeff, WDNR

Tim Larson, WDNR

Steve McGee, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Dan McLeod, Michigan DNR

Doug Nelson, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

Dale Ollila, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marquette, MI

Joe Ostazeski, Minnesota DNR

Paul Peeters, WDNR

Mark Pegg, formerly Illinois Natural History Survey

Kyle Piller, formerly UW-Madison

Lennie Pitcher, Carbondale, IL

Dennis Pratt, WDNR

Nelson Rios, Tulane University

Konrad Schmidt, Minnesota DNR

Steve Schram, WDNR

Don Schreiner, Minnesota DNR

Paul Seelbach, Michigan DNR

Shawn Sitar, Michigan DNR

Tom Simon, formerly U.S. EPA, Chicago

Jeff Stewart, Southern Illinois University

Mike Toneys, formerly WDNR

Jan VanAmBerg, Michigan DNR

Dan Zielinski, New York Department of Environmental Conservation

Many, many people, too numerous to list, helped me collect fishes for photography during my own sampling expeditions.  You know who you are, and I thank you.

Funding for the field work and photography was provided in part by a Technology and Learning Grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Federal Aid in Fish Restoration Program, Project F-95-P, Study SSOT.