THE SOFT VERSION
Early life shaped much of what was to come. I was born in a small house next to the sand and surf in Long Beach, California. I grew up on that beach, often in the water. My earliest memories are of trying to keep sea anemones and hermit crabs alive in a small bowl and fishing from the local dock. Birds, however, were to become my passion. And eventually all my time, and the little money I made from delivering newspapers in the wee hours of the morning, were invested in racing pigeons. I spared enough money, however, to indulge in tropical fishes, including cichlids.

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I was packed off to the university to become a medical doctor, which I didn't want to be, and as a result did miserably the first year. In the second year I met a professor who opened my eyes to the possibility of becoming a biologist ­ an ichthyologist, to be precise. I had never heard of a PhD. But I changed my career goals the same day, I started enjoying learning, and my grades shot up.

Having been a life guard and involved in water sports, combining my passion for the water with biology seemed ideal. The Korean War interrupted my formal education when I volunteered for the Coast Guard, reasoning that I would have more responsibility for boat handling than I would find in the Navy, and I was right. I requested duty in the Central Pacific Ocean and got it.

I returned to the university to pursue a PhD in ichthyology. Process came to interest me more than goby systematics, and I was drawn increasingly to the new field called ethology, the study of animal behavior. That culminated in a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, which my wife and I spent in Bavaria in the laboratory of Konrad Lorenz, subsequently a winner of the Nobel Prize. We returned to an Assistant Professorship at the University of Illinois where we spent six years. Then it was back to California at the University in Berkeley, where we have been ever since.

Some relevant experiences were a sabbatical year at Oxford University with Niko Tinbergen, who received the Nobel Prize while we were there (an exciting experience); and a one-year stay in Bielefeld, Germany, organizing and participating in a program on the development of behavior. Other shaping experiences were spending two weeks in an underwater habitat in Costa Rica, a six-week expedition to the Galapagos Islands in 1967 (before the tourist boom), diving at French Frigate Shoals in the windward islands of Hawaii, underwater research in crater lakes in Nicaragua, and more. I was chairman of the university Diving Control Board for several years. The culmination of this part of my life was taking the lead in establishing our university's biological station on the Island of Moorea, French Polynesia and becoming its first director.

George Barlow, Lisbon 1998

At the university, I have instructed in several courses in animal behavior at the undergraduate and graduate level. I also taught the course in ichthyology, which entailed lectures, laboratory sessions, and field trips.

My research has centered on the evolution of social behavior in fishes, and the mechanisms supporting their behavior. The kinds of fishes investigated have ranged from desert pupfish through coral-reef fishes (especially surgeon fishes and file fishes). However, the bulk of my efforts have been devoted to the study of those incredible cichlid fishes. If you haven't already, visit the page devoted to "The Cichlid Fishes."

Having experienced the development of ethology and sociobiology, I have written essays on the history of that tumultuous time. Of late, I have composed an essay, still unpublished, on the evolutionary roots of war.

My graduate students have likewise done most of their doctoral programs on the behavior of fishes, though by no means always on cichlids. One student even studied lizards and another the dusky-footed wood rat.

Currently, I collaborate with undergraduate students to investigate the social behavior of some African fishes, called Julies, from Lake Tanganyika. The students learn from me how to start and to conduct a scientific study. As well, they become trained in how to keep our fish healthy and happy. I owe them a debt of gratitude for the help they render.

I also engage in some teaching, giving guest lectures in courses such as Integrative Biology 158, Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands. For some years I have organized our small seminar course called Research Reviews in Animal Behavior. This year, however, the course has been run by a postdoctoral visiting scientist, Phil Starks. To learn more about the course, and to see photos of Phil and me, visit http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/~pstarks/behavior_lunch.html.

Now, on to the staid version of the CV. Just the facts!

THE FORMAL VERSION

George W. Barlow

Born		15 June, 1929
Birthplace		Long Beach, California
Current Position		Professor Emeritus University of California, Berkeley
Education
AB	University of California, Los Angeles	(1951)
MA	University of California, Los Angeles	(1955)
PhD	University of California, Los Angeles	(1958)
	National Institute of Mental Health, Postdoctoral Fellow with K. Lorenz, Seewiesen, Germany	(1958-1960)
Employment History
	Line Officer, United States Coast Guard	(1951-1953)
	Assistant Professor, Dept. Zoology, Univ. Illinois, Urbana	(1960-1963)
	Associate Professor, Dept. Zoology, Univ. Illinois, Urbana	(1963-1966)
	Associate Professor, Dept. Zoology, Univ. Calif., Berkeley	(1966-1970)
	Professor, Dept. Zoology, Univ. California, Berkeley	(1970-1989)
	Miller Professor, University of California, Berkeley	(1970-1971)
	Professor, Dept. Integrative Biol., Univ. Calif., Berkeley	(1989-1993)
	Professor Emeritus, Dept. Integrative Biol., Univ. Calif., Berkeley	(1993- )
Service
	National Science Foundation, Psychobiology Panel	(1965-1968)
	Animal Behavior Society:
	Fellow
	President	(1979)
	Executive Cmte.	(1977-1980)
	Chr. Policy Cmte.	(1965-1973)
	Chr. Public Affairs Cmte.	(1989-1992)
	Program Officer	(1964)
	American Society of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists:
	Board of Governors	(1970-1975)
	ad hoc Cmte. Nat'l Plan for Ichthyology	(1973)
	American Association for the Advancement of Science:
	Fellow	(1965)
	California Academy of Sciences:
	Fellow	(1976)
	International Ethology Cmte.:
	Amer. Repr.	(1968-1975)
	Plan. Cmte.	(1975, 1977)
	American Society of Zoologists:
	Chr. Ecology Division	(1976)
	Chr. Animal Behavior Div.	(1978)
Editorships and Editorial Boards
	Ethology, editor	(1987-1990)
	Cambridge Studies in Behavioural Biology, consulting editor	(1986-1992)
	McGraw-Hill, book publishers, consulting editor
	Animal Behaviour	(1965-1971)
	Copeia	(1966-1973)
	Environmental Biology of Fishes
	Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology
	Biologie du Comportement
	Acta Natural l'Ateneo Parmense
	Cahiers d'Ethologie Applique
	Acta Ethologica
Invited Major Lectures in Recent Years
	Invited Opening Lecture, Behavioural Ecology of Fishes, Erice, Italy	(1991)
	Invited Opening Lecture, Ecology, Evolution & Ethology of Fishes, Univ. New Hampshire	(1992)
	Invited Workshop Lecture, Behavioural Mechanisms..., Instituto Juan March, Madrid	(1992)
	Invited lecture, War and Aggression, Triangle Universities Security Seminars, Chapel Hill	(1994)
	Invited Symposium Speaker, Mating Systems in Animals & Plants, York University, Canada	(1996)
	Invited Symposium Speaker, Vertebrate Behavior: Integration of Ultimate & Proximate Mechanisms, Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, Albuquerque	(1996)
	Invited Keynote lecture, Conference on the Biology of Littoral Fishes, Lisbon, Portugal	(1998)
	Invited lecture, National Convention of the American Cichlid Association, Parsippany, New Jersey	(2001)
	Invited speaker in two symposia. One was Speciation in Fishes, Reptiles, and Amphibians, and the other was Ecology and Behavior of Cichlid Fishes of the Great Lakes of Africa; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Pennsylvania State University	(2001)
Professional Experience
	Visiting sabbatical Professor with Niko Tinbergen, Oxford University	(1973-1974)
	Principal organizer, resident participant, and co-editor; Bielefeld Interdisciplinary Project on Behavioral Development, Zentrum für interdiziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld Universität	(1977-1978)
	Work shop on animal models in psychiatry, Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in Behavior	(1987)
	Underwater field studies: Central America, Indo-Pacific, Caribbean
	Published three books and 162 articles