Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability

Morphology, taxonomy, and geographic distribution of Arctic marine fishes.

Barcoding (DNA sequencing) as an aid for taxonomy and identification. See Fish Barcode of Life (Fish-BOL) initiative, University of Guelph: http://www.fishbol.org/

Research Associate, Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 2006-present.

Field Associate, Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 2002-2006.

Associate Specialist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001-present.

Private consultant, ichthyology, dba Point Stephens Research, 1991-present.

Private consultant and owner of Point Stephens Press, editor and publication specialist, fish and fisheries, 1979-1990.

Research Analyst, Alaska Office of Coastal Management, Juneau, Alaska, 1979-1981.

Technical Editor, NOAA, NMFS, Auke Bay Fisheries Laboratory, Juneau, Alaska, 1975-1978.

Fisheries Biologist, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Homer, Alaska, 1974-1975.

Assistant Professor, Physical Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 1970-1973.

Russian Federation ship Professor Khromov, multidisciplinary cruise. PI: Adult and juvenile benthic and demersal fishes. Chukchi Sea, East Siberian Sea, Chukchi Borderland, September 2009

NOAA ship Oscar Dyson, fisheries cruise. PI: Identification, tissue collection, and photography of pelagic and benthic fishes. Chukchi Sea, September 2007.

Russian Federation ship Professor Khromov, multidisciplinary cruise. Co-PI: Adult and juvenile benthic and demersal fishes. Chukchi Sea, August 2004.

USFWS vessel Tiglax, member of fish team for resource surveys of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge: Semidi Islands, Gulf of Alaska, 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2007; Norton Sound, Bering Sea, 2002; central Aleutian Islands, 2003; Pribilof Islands, 2005.

California Academy of Sciences, Hokkaido University Museum of Zoology, National Museum of Canada, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of British Columbia, University of Washington: Research on taxonomy and distribution of North Pacific and Arctic fishes; 1991–present.

Point Stephens Research: Identification and preservation of northern fishes: e.g., recent collections by University of Alaska Fairbanks, Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea in 2009-2011; Hokkaido University, Chukchi Sea in 2007 and 2008; Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation, Norton Sound, Bering Sea in 2006; NOAA Ocean Exploration, Canada Basin in 2005; University of Alaska Fairbanks, Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea in 2003; National Park Service, surveys of Glacier Bay National Park in 2000–2002.

Mecklenburg, C. W., P. R. Møller, and D. Steinke. 2011. Biodiversity of arctic marine fishes: taxonomy and zoogeography. Marine Biodiversity 41(1):109–140. Includes electronic supplementary material (Online Resources 1–5), downloadable online by Marine Biodiversity subscribers, or may be obtained from ptstephens@alaska.com.

Mecklenburg, C. W., and T. A. Mecklenburg. October 2010. Taxonomy and zoogeography of Arctic marine fishes and detection of change. RUSALCA 2009 Postcruise Workshop, Tivat, Serbia and Montenegro. Download at: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/aro/russian-american/2010/

Mecklenburg, C. W., and T. A. Mecklenburg. 2009–2011. Arctic marine fish species accounts prepared for Arctic Ocean Diversity section, Census of Marine Life, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Accounts are revised at irregular intervals. Additional accounts are in progress.  See: http://www.arcodiv.org/Fish.html

Mecklenburg, C. W., and T. A. Mecklenburg. 2009. Arctic marine fish museum specimens, 2nd edition. Metadata report and database submitted to ArcOD, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks by Point Stephens Research, Auke Bay, Alaska

Mecklenburg, C. W., D. L. Stein, B. A. Sheiko, N. V. Chernova, T. A. Mecklenburg, and B. A. Holladay. 2007. Russian-American Long-term Census of the Arctic: Benthic fishes trawled in the Chukchi Sea and Bering Strait, August 2004. Northwestern Naturalist 88: 168-187.

Mecklenburg, C. W., T. A. Mecklenburg, B. A. Sheiko, and N. V. Chernova (2006) Arctic marine fish museum specimens. Metadata report and database submitted to ArcOD, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks by Point Stephens Research, Auke Bay, Alaska

Gharrett, A. J., C. W. Mecklenburg, L. W. Seeb, Z. Li, A. P. Matala, A. K. Gray, and J. Heifetz. 2006. Coloration and morphological comparisons of genetically distinct rougheye rockfish sibling species. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 135: 791-800.

Love, M., C. W. Mecklenburg, T. A. Mecklenburg, and L. K. Thorsteinson. 2005. Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska. OCS Study MMS 2005-030 and USGS/NBII 2005-001. 288 pp.

Mecklenburg, C. W., and B. A. Sheiko. 2004. Family Stichaeidae Gill 1864 - pricklebacks. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes No. 26. 28 pp.

Sheiko, B. A., and C. W. Mecklenburg. 2004. Family Agonidae Swainson 1839 - poachers. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes No. 27. 24 pp.

Mecklenburg, C. W. 2003. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes:
Family Anoplopomatidae Jordan & Gilbert 1883 - sablefishes. No. 2. 3 pp.
Family Rhamphocottidae Gill 1888 - grunt sculpins. No. 4. 2 pp.
Family Hemitripteridae Gill 1872 - sea ravens or sailfin sculpins. No. 5. 6 pp.
Family Bathymasteridae Jordan & Gilbert 1883 - ronquils. No. 7. 4 pp.
Family Cryptacanthodidae Gill 1861 - wrymouths. No. 8. 4 pp.
Family Pholidae Gill 1893 - gunnels. No. 9. 11 pp.
Family Anarhichadidae Bonaparte 1846 - wolffishes. No. 10. 6 pp.
Family Scytalinidae Jordan & Evermann 1898 - graveldivers. No. 11. 3 pp.
Family Ptilichthyidae Jordan & Gilbert 1883 - quillfishes. No. 12. 3 pp.
Family Zaproridae Jordan & Evermann 1898 - prowfishes. No. 13. 3 pp.
Family Icosteidae Jordan & Gilbert 1880 - ragfishes. No. 14. 4 pp.

Mecklenburg, C. W., and W. N. Eschmeyer. 2003. Family Hexagrammidae Gill 1889 - greenlings. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes No. 3. 10 pp.

Mecklenburg, C. W., and B. A. Sheiko. 2003. Family Cyclopteridae Bonaparte 1831 - lumpsuckers. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes No. 6. 17 pp.

Mecklenburg, C. W., T. A. Mecklenburg, and L. K. Thorsteinson. 2002. Fishes of Alaska. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. xxxvii + 1,037 pp. + 40 plates.