Margaret G. Bradbury

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Margaret G. Bradbury
Born(1927-07-15)July 15, 1927
Chicago, Illinois, USA
DiedOctober 19, 2010(2010-10-19) (aged 83)
Pacific Grove, California
NationalityUnited States
Alma mater Roosevelt University
Scientific career
Fields Zoology, Ichthyology
Institutions Hopkins Marine Station, San Francisco State University
Doctoral advisor Ralph Bolin
Author abbrev. (zoology) Bradbury

Margaret Gertrude Bradbury, known as "Maggie" (b. 15 July 1927, d. 19 October 2010) was an American ichthyologist, educator and illustrator. She is best known for her work on the anglerfish family Ogcocephalidae, the deep-sea batfishes.

She was born on 15 July 1927 in Chicago, her parents were Gerald Bradbury, an architect, and Margaret Bradbury. She had a younger brother Gerald Jr.. Her father died in around 1938 when she was probably 11 years old. In 1947 she joined the Chicago Natural History Museum's Zoology Department as a staff artist. In this role she provided illustrations for publications by many scientists associated with the museum, including the herpetologists Robert F. Inger and Karl P. Schmidt, as well as the ichthyologists Loren P. Woods and Robert H. Kanazawa. While she was at the Museum she enrolled in Roosevelt College and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in zoology in 1955. [1] She continued to work as an illustrator and was honored in 1957 by Marion Griswold Grey in the specific epithet of the dreamer Oneirodes bradburyae for her "preparation of the figure of the type specimen". [2]

In 1955 Bradbury went on a collecting trip to the Bahamas as part of an Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences expedition and on her return to the United States she matriculated at Stanford University as a graduate student. Here she was initially supervised by George S. Myers but switched to Rolf L. Bolin at the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove around 1957. She worked as a teaching assistant at Stanford's Palo Alto campus and as a part-time technical assistant at the collection of South Pacific fishes at the George Vanderbilt Foundation. After transferring to Hopkins she worked as a technician preparing research reports for California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations at Hopkins in 1957, as an illustrator and illustrating consultant for the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in Washington, D.C. in 1959. She worked for 2 years as a teaching assistant in marine biology at Hopkins and gained her Ph.D. in 1963. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on the systematics of the deep sea batfish family, Ogcocephalidae, a group she was to study for the rest of her career and beyond until her failing eyesight stopped her work. [1]

She was appointed as assistant professor of biology at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1962 but returned to California in 1963 as an assistant professor of Biological Sciences at San Francisco State College, becoming associate professor in 1967 and a full Professor in 1971. She remained at San Francisco State University for 34 years until her retirement in 1994. Bradbury also taught summer courses in ichthyology at Hopkins and too part in expeditions on the schooner Te Vega. She was regarded as a leading authority on the family Ogcocephalidae and published a number of papers on this group. She was a pioneer in the use of cladistics in her work. She became a Fellow and a Research Associate of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences. In her retirement she moved to Pacific Grove where she was active as a member of the Board of Friends of the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, an was president of that board for a number of years. She died on 19 October 2010. [1]

Eponyms

Bradbury has been honored in the specific names of the following fishes: [3] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Iwamoto, Tomio; Cailliet, Gregor; Cohen, Daniel; Pietsch, Theodore; Tucker, Tom; Larson, Ralph; and Martin, Marlene (2011). "Margaret G. Bradbury (1927-2010)". Copeia. 2011 (4): 599–605. doi:10.2307/41416580.
  2. ↑ Marion Grey (1957). "New Records of Deep-Sea Fishes, including a New Species, Oneirodes bradburyae, from the Gulf of Mexico". Copeia. 1957 (4): 242–246. doi:10.2307/1440277.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf (14 November 2022). "Order LOPHIIFORMES (part 1): Families LOPHIIDAE, ANTENNARIIDAE, TETRABRACHIIDAE, LOPHICHTHYIDAE, BRACHIONICHTHYIDAE, CHAUNACIDAE and OGCOCEPHALIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  4. ↑ Christopher Scharpf (14 November 2022). "Order LOPHIIFORMES (part 2): Families CAULOPHRYNIDAE, NEOCERATIIDAE, MELANOCETIDAE, HIMANTOLOPHIDAE, DICERATIIDAE, ONEIRODIDAE, THAUMATICHTHYIDAE, CENTROPHRYNIDAE, CERATIIDAE, GIGANTACTINIDAE and LINOPHRYNIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
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