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| Michael Barton is Stodghill Professor of Biology at Centre College where he has taught since 1979. Prior to that, he was a visiting assistant professor of biology at the University of Virginia. Barton received his B.A. degree in zoology from the University of California, Los Angeles, his M.A. degree in biology from California State University, Fullerton, and a Ph.D. in fisheries biology with a minor in oceanography from Oregon State University. Barton’s research interests are in the ecological and physiological adaptations of fishes living in extreme environments. His graduate research was on fishes that live in the intertidal zone of the northeast Pacific coast. While at Centre, Barton has conducted a winter term off-campus program in marine biology at a field station on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. Currently he is researching the evolution and ecology of pupfishes, small inhabitants of lakes and ponds in the Bahamas that experience rapid rates of speciation. In 1990, Barton received the opportunity to pursue study in another area of interest, the landscape impact of the Spanish mission system of colonial California, when he received the Centre College Faculty Lectureship that year. For the academic years 2000-2002, Barton was designated a Centre Scholar. A long-standing interest in automotive history has resulted in the restoration of a couple of old cars as well as the development of a winter-term course on the impact of the automobile on the environment. Currently, Barton is completing a textbook on the biology of fishes that will be published by Brooks/Cole in 2005. College news contact: Communications Office File last updated: |