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Fields of study
Evolution of North American freshwater fishes
Research interests
Cenozoic fossils and calibration of rates of evolution; speciation, biogeography, conservation.
Academic background
B.S., 1957, and M.S., 1959, University of Utah; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1965, in Zoology. Faculty: Univ. Utah, 1963-66; Univ. Kansas, 1966-69; Univ. Michigan, 1969-2003.
Graduate students
Ewen Harrison, Ron Oldfield
Recent publications
Bailey, R.M., Latta, W.C., and Smith, G.R. 2004. An Atlas of Michigan Fishes with Keys and Illustrations for their identification. U. Mich. Mus. Zool. Misc. Pubs. 192, 215 p.
Smith, G.R. 2004. Hubbs & Lagler Fishes of the Great Lakes Region. U. Michigan Press. 275 p.
Zazzo, A., Smith, G.R., Patterson, W.P., and Dufour, E. 2006. Life history reconstruction of modern and fossil sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) by oxygen isotopic analysis of otoliths, vertebrae, and teeth: implication for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 249:200-215.
Smith, G.R., and Dowling, T.E. (in press). Hydrography and phylogeography of speckled dace, Rhinichthys osculus, in the Colorado River drainage, in Reheis, M., and Hershler, R., eds., Geological Society of America Special Publication.
Spencer, J.E., Smith, G.R., and Dowling, T.E. (in press). Middle and Late Cenozoic Evolution of Topography and Late Cenozoic Evolution of Fish in the American Southwest, and the Location of the Continental Divide, in Reheis, M., and Hershler, R., eds., Geological Society of America Special Publication.
Estabrook, G.F., Smith, G.R., Dowling, T.E. (in press). Body Mass and Temperature Influence Evolutionary Rate of mtDNA in North American Cyprinidae. Evolution.
Smith, G.R., D.R. Montgomery, N.P. Peterson. (in press). Ecology and Life History of Pleistocene sockeye salmon in lake sediments in the Skokomish River Canyon, Washington. Quaternary Review.
Eiting, T., and Smith, G.R. (submitted). Miocene Salmon (Oncorhynchus) from Idaho and Oregon: Gill Raker Evolution Correlated with Plankton Productivity. Paleobiology, Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology.
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