urrently, 39 students advised by staff of the Division of Ichthyology have graduated from the University of Kansas with graduate degrees. These graduates have gone on to various positions in academia, government, and industry.

Wendell Minckley (deceased), M.A. (1958) - Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas. Advisor: F. B. Cross. (Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky) W. Jackson Davis, Ph.D. (1958) - Management of channel catfish in Kansas. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Abdul-Amir Al-Saadi, M.A. (1959) - Comparative osteology of the centrarchid fishes Ambloplites rupestris, Archoplites interruptus, and Pomoxis nigromaculatus. Advisor: F. B. Cross. James Deacon, Ph.D. (1960) - Fish populations in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers, Kansas following drought. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Leonard Olund, M.A. (1960) - Geographic variation in the North American cyprinid fish Hybopsis gracilis. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Claude Hastings, M.A. (1961) - Farm ponds in Douglas County, Kansas, with reference to the their use and management for fish production. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Larry A. Witt, M.A. (1961) - Standing crops of fish in farm ponds and gravel pits in Nebraska. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Hakim Al-Rawi, M.A. (1962) - Geographic variation in the North American cyprinid fish Hybognathus placitus Girard. Advisor: F. B. Cross. (Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma) Ya-Ching Lai, M.A. (1963) - Effects of several preservatives on proportional measurements of the fat-head minnow Pimephales promelas. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Artie Metcalf, Ph.D. (1964) - Fishes of the Kansas River System in relation to zoogeography of the Great Plains; M.A. (1958) - Fishes of Chautaqua, Cowley, and Elk Counties. Advisor: F. B. Cross. John Vandermeer, M.A. (1964) - Geographic variation of the fathead minnow Pimephales promelas. Advisor: F. B. Cross. (Ph.D. at the University of Michigan) Don Distler, Ph.D. (1966) - Distribution and variation of Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz) (Percidae, Teleostei). Advisor: F. B. Cross. Bill Simco, Ph.D. (1966) - Factors affecting growth and production of channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus; M.A. (1962) - Experimental feeding of channel catfish in ponds. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Douglas W. Albaugh, M.A. (1968) - Sources of variation in growth among individual black bullheads, Ictalurus melas, and channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus. Advisor: F. B. Cross. M. Duane Chanay, M.A. (1968) - Growth and movements of creek chubs Semotilus atromaculatus in a small stream in eastern Kansas. Advisor: F. B. Cross. William L. Pflieger, Ph.D. (1969)-A distributional study of the fishes of Missouri. Advisor: F. B. Cross. William G. Saul, M.A. (1970) - Ecology of the fishes of the Santa Cecilia area in Ecuador. Advisors: G. R. Smith and F. B. Cross. Lawrence M. Cavin, M.A. (1971) - Natural history of the cyprinid fishes Notropis lutrensis (Baird and Girard) and Notropis camurus (Jordan and Meek). Advisor: F. B. Cross. John Rickett (deceased), Ph.D. (1973) - Feeding habits and management of largemouth bass and black bullhead. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Glenn Lessendon, M.A. (1974) - Analysis of habitats and fish distribution in the Neosho and Verdegris Drainage Basins of Kansas. Advisor: F. B. Cross. James Triplett, Ph.D. (1976) - Seasonal distribution and successional trends of fish in a new cooling reservoir. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Harold Kerns, M.A. (1981) - Aspects of the life history and feeding habits of the Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka) in Kansas. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Owen T. Gorman, Ph.D. (1983) - Determinants of habitat segregation among Ozark minnows. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Randall E. Moss, Ph.D. (1983) - Microhabitat selection in Neosho River riffles. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Miles H. Stotts, II, M.A. (1983) - Evaluation of an urban fishery by modified creel survey, based on two lakes in demographically different areas of the metropolitan Kansas City, Kansas, Region. Advisor: F. B. Cross. J. D. Stewart, Ph.D. (1984) - Taxonomy, paleoecology, and stratigraphy of the halecostome-inoceramid associations of the North American Upper Cretaceous epicontinental seaways. Advisor: E. O. Wiley. Richard L. Mayden, Ph.D. (1985) - Phylogenetic studies of North American minnows with emphasis on the genus Cyprinella (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Advisor: E. O. Wiley. Randy Schademann, M.A. (1987) - Food habits, growth, and distribution of walleye in Clinton Reservoir, Kansas. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Timothy R. Schmidt, M.A. (1989) - Phylogenetic relationships of Hybognathus (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae). Advisor: E. O. Wiley. Andrew M. Simons, M.A. (1989) - The phylogenetic relationships of the sand darters (Teleostei: Percidae). Advisor: E. O. Wiley. (Ph.D. at the University of Alabama) Vernon Tabor, M.A. (1992) - Temporal changes in the ichthyofauna of the South Fork of the Cottonwood River and Cedar Creek, Chase County, Kansas 1952-1990. Advisor: F. B. Cross. Xinyu Chen, Ph.D. (1994) - Morphology, phylogeny, biogeography and systematics of Phoxinus (Pisces: Cyprinidae). Advisors: G. Arratia and E. O. Wiley. Kathleen A. Moots (nee Shaw), Ph.D. (1995) - Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of the Oligocephalus group of darters (Teleostei: Percidae). Advisor: E. O. Wiley. Peter B. Berendzen, M.S. (1998) - Phylogenetic analysis of the order Pleuronectiformes using molecular and morphological evidence. Advisor: W. W. Dimmick. Michael J. Ghedotti, Ph.D. (1998) - Systematics and taxonomy of the superfamily Poecilioidea (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) with emphasis on the family Anablepidae. Advisor: E. O. Wiley. Christopher Fielitz, Ph.D. (1999) - Phylogenetic analysis of the family Enchodontidae and its relationship to Recent members of the order Aulopiformes. Advisors: H. - P. Schultze and E. O. Wiley. Anne Michels, Ph.D. (2000) - Population genetic structure and phylogeography of the endangered Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka) and the abundant sand shiner (Notropis ludibundus) using mitochondrial DNA sequence. Advisor: W. W. Dimmick. Kathryn E. Powers, M.S. (2001) - non-thesis Master's degree. Advisor: E. O. Wiley. Michael J. Grose, Ph.D. (2001) - Molecular systematics of atherinomorph fishes, with an emphasis on the silverside order Atheriniformes. Advisors: E. O. Wiley and W. W. Dimmick. Kevin L. Tang, Ph.D. (2003) - The phylogenetic relationships of the family Pomacentridae (Teleostei: Perciformes) and the subfamily Amphiprioninae. Advisor: E. O. Wiley. Nancy I. Holcroft Benson, Ph.D. (2003) - Order Tetraodontiformes: Molecular systematics, with a test of the hypothesized Caproid-Zeiform-Tetraodontiform relationship. Advisor: E. O. Wiley. Kristina M. McNyset, Ph.D. (2005) - Pending ...