	Dean Hendrickson Assistant Professor, Section of Integrative Biology and Curator of Ichthyology, Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collections
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E-mail: deanhend@mail.utexas.edu Pickle Research Campus Office: Texas Natural History Collections Bldg. 176, (512) 471-9774, (512) 471-9775 (fax)	Education B.S., Fisheries/Wildlife Management, Arizona State University, 1973 M.Sc., Applied Hydrobiology, University of London, 1977 Ph.D., Zoology, Arizona State University, 1987 Research Interests Dr. Hendrickson has focused his research on the evolution, conservation and ecology of freshwater ecosystems, particularly those of North American deserts and generally wih emphasis on fishes and Mexico. His most recent project focuses on ecology and conservation of the spring ecosystems of Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila, Mexico, a small Chihuahuan Desert valley with extremely high endemism that was recently declared a National Reserve for Flora and Fauna. Another recent project focused on distribution and evolution of blind catfishes of the genus Prietella, also of northwestern Mexico. He is also working with collaborators on the description of a new catfish family from Chiapas, Mexico and another project in development addresses evolution, ecology and systematics of the mostly still undescribed trouts of the northern Sierra Madre Occidental of Durango, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico. It was just pointed out to me that the link to my website in /faculty/profiles.aspx?letterID=8 doesn't work. It should be to https://webspace.utexas.edu/deanhend/www/. While fixing that you could also add the following brief statement about my research to the page: As Curator of Ichthyology, I am responsible for growth and maintenance of the Texas Natural Science Center's large collection http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/tnhc/fish/index.html of preserved fishes. My research focuses on evolution, ecology and conservation of freshwater fishes and their habitats, with a geographic focus on northern México and Texas. More information on these and other projects. Instruction Fall semesters: BIO 371G - Natural History Museum Science Spring semesters: BIO 354L - Ichthyology most semesters: undergraduate independent research classes More information - see a list of the many UT and other undergraduate and graduate students who have participated in his Cuatro Cienegas project via the participant page for that project. Publications Hendrickson, D.A., J. K. Krejca, and J. M Rodriguez. (in press 2001) Mexican blindcats, genus Prietella (Ictaluridae): review and status based on recent explorations. Environmental Biology of Fishes (invited paper for special issue on cave fishes) Hendrickson, D. A. and Alejandro Varela Romero. (in press 2001). Fishes of the R’o Fuerte, Sonora, Sinaloa and Chihuahua, Mexico. In Lozona-Vilano, L. (ed.) Mexican Ichthyology - a tribute to Dr. Salvador Contreras Balderas (to be published by Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, México). Garcia de Leon, F., Hendrickson, D. A., Wilcox, T., Hillis, D.M. (in prep. 2001). Phylogenetic relationships and geographic variation of Prietella (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae) of northeast Mexico as inferred from mtDNA sequences. Botosaneanu, L., Iliffe, T.M. and Hendrickson, D.A. (1998). On a collection of stygobitic cirolanids (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from northern Mexico, with description of a new species. Bulletin de L'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie, 68:123-134. Anderson, A.A. and D. A. Hendrickson. (1994). Geographic variation in Meda fulgida (Pisces: Cyprinidae), Arizona and New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 39(2):148-155. Hendrickson, D. A. and J. E. Brooks. (1991). Transplants of short-lived fishes of southwest North American deserts - a review, assessment and recommendations. Pp. 283-298 In: Battle Against Extinction - Desert Fish Management in the American Southwest. W. L. Minckley and J. E. Deacon (eds.). University of Arizona Press. Williams, J. E., J. Johnson, D. A. Hendrickson, S. Contreras-Balderas, J. D. Williams, M. Navarro-Mendoza, D. E. McAllister, J. E. Deacon. (1989). Fishes of North America Endangered, Threatened, or of Special concern. Fisheries 14(6):2-20. Simons, L. H., D. A. Hendrickson, D. Papoulias. (1989). Gila topminnow - a conservation success story? Conservation Biology 3(1):11-15. Hendrickson, D. A. and A. Varela-R. (1989). Conservation status of the endangered desert pupfish, Cyprinodon macularius, in México and Arizona. Copeia 1989(2):478-483. Hendrickson, D. A. 1986. Congruence of bolitoglossine biogeography and phylogeny with geologic history: paleotransport on displaced suspect terranes? Cladistics 2(2):113-129. Minckley, W. L., D. A. Hendrickson, and C. E. Bond. (1986). Geography of Western North American Freshwater Fishes: Description and Relations to Intracontinental Tectonism. Pp. 519-613 (+ lit. cited), in C. Hocutt and E. O. Wiley, eds., Zoogeography of Freshwater Fishes of North America. Wiley-Interscience, NY, NY. Williams, J. E., D. B. Bowman, J. E. Brooks, A. A. Echelle, R. J. Edwards, D. A. Hendrickson, and J. J. Landye. (1985). Endangered aquatic ecosystems in North American desert regions, with a list of vanishing fishes. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 20:1-62. Hendrickson, D. A. and W. L. Minckley. (1984). (published February, 1985). Ciénegas - vanishing aquatic climax communities of the American Southwest. Desert Plants 6(2):131-175. Meffe, G. K., D. A. Hendrickson, W. L. Minckley, and J. N. Rinne. (1983). Factors resulting in decline of the endangered Sonoran Topminnow, Poeciliopsis occidentalis (Atheriniformes: Poeciliidae) in the United States. Biological Conservation 25:135-159. Hendrickson, D. A., W. L. Minckley, R. R. Miller, D. J. Siebert, and P. H. Minckley. (1980) (published 1981). Fishes of the R’o Yaqui basin, México and United States. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 15(3):65-106.

Dean Hendrickson

Assistant Professor, Section of Integrative Biology and
Curator of Ichthyology, Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collections

Lab web page

Education | Research Interests | Instruction | Publications

E-mail:
deanhend@mail.utexas.edu

Pickle Research Campus Office:
Texas Natural History Collections Bldg. 176,
(512) 471-9774,
(512) 471-9775 (fax)

Education

B.S., Fisheries/Wildlife Management, Arizona State University, 1973
M.Sc., Applied Hydrobiology, University of London, 1977
Ph.D., Zoology, Arizona State University, 1987

Research Interests

Dr. Hendrickson has focused his research on the evolution, conservation and ecology of freshwater ecosystems, particularly those of North American deserts and generally wih emphasis on fishes and Mexico. His most recent project focuses on ecology and conservation of the spring ecosystems of Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila, Mexico, a small Chihuahuan Desert valley with extremely high endemism that was recently declared a National Reserve for Flora and Fauna. Another recent project focused on distribution and evolution of blind catfishes of the genus Prietella, also of northwestern Mexico. He is also working with collaborators on the description of a new catfish family from Chiapas, Mexico and another project in development addresses evolution, ecology and systematics of the mostly still undescribed trouts of the northern Sierra Madre Occidental of Durango, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico. It was just pointed out to me that the link to my website in /faculty/profiles.aspx?letterID=8 doesn't work. It should be to https://webspace.utexas.edu/deanhend/www/. While fixing that you could also add the following brief statement about my research to the page:

As Curator of Ichthyology, I am responsible for growth and maintenance of the Texas Natural Science Center's large collection http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/tnhc/fish/index.html of preserved fishes. My research focuses on evolution, ecology and conservation of freshwater fishes and their habitats, with a geographic focus on northern México and Texas.

More information on these and other projects.

Instruction

Fall semesters: BIO 371G - Natural History Museum Science
Spring semesters: BIO 354L - Ichthyology
most semesters: undergraduate independent research classes

More information - see a list of the many UT and other undergraduate and graduate students who have participated in his Cuatro Cienegas project via the participant page for that project.

Publications

Hendrickson, D.A., J. K. Krejca, and J. M Rodriguez. (in press 2001) Mexican blindcats, genus Prietella (Ictaluridae): review and status based on recent explorations. Environmental Biology of Fishes (invited paper for special issue on cave fishes)
Hendrickson, D. A. and Alejandro Varela Romero. (in press 2001). Fishes of the R’o Fuerte, Sonora, Sinaloa and Chihuahua, Mexico. In Lozona-Vilano, L. (ed.) Mexican Ichthyology - a tribute to Dr. Salvador Contreras Balderas (to be published by Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, México).
Garcia de Leon, F., Hendrickson, D. A., Wilcox, T., Hillis, D.M. (in prep. 2001). Phylogenetic relationships and geographic variation of Prietella (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae) of northeast Mexico as inferred from mtDNA sequences.
Botosaneanu, L., Iliffe, T.M. and Hendrickson, D.A. (1998). On a collection of stygobitic cirolanids (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from northern Mexico, with description of a new species. Bulletin de L'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie, 68:123-134.
Anderson, A.A. and D. A. Hendrickson. (1994). Geographic variation in Meda fulgida (Pisces: Cyprinidae), Arizona and New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 39(2):148-155.
Hendrickson, D. A. and J. E. Brooks. (1991). Transplants of short-lived fishes of southwest North American deserts - a review, assessment and recommendations. Pp. 283-298 In: Battle Against Extinction - Desert Fish Management in the American Southwest. W. L. Minckley and J. E. Deacon (eds.). University of Arizona Press.
Williams, J. E., J. Johnson, D. A. Hendrickson, S. Contreras-Balderas, J. D. Williams, M. Navarro-Mendoza, D. E. McAllister, J. E. Deacon. (1989). Fishes of North America Endangered, Threatened, or of Special concern. Fisheries 14(6):2-20.
Simons, L. H., D. A. Hendrickson, D. Papoulias. (1989). Gila topminnow - a conservation success story? Conservation Biology 3(1):11-15.
Hendrickson, D. A. and A. Varela-R. (1989). Conservation status of the endangered desert pupfish, Cyprinodon macularius, in México and Arizona. Copeia 1989(2):478-483.
Hendrickson, D. A. 1986. Congruence of bolitoglossine biogeography and phylogeny with geologic history: paleotransport on displaced suspect terranes? Cladistics 2(2):113-129.
Minckley, W. L., D. A. Hendrickson, and C. E. Bond. (1986). Geography of Western North American Freshwater Fishes: Description and Relations to Intracontinental Tectonism. Pp. 519-613 (+ lit. cited), in C. Hocutt and E. O. Wiley, eds., Zoogeography of Freshwater Fishes of North America. Wiley-Interscience, NY, NY.
Williams, J. E., D. B. Bowman, J. E. Brooks, A. A. Echelle, R. J. Edwards, D. A. Hendrickson, and J. J. Landye. (1985). Endangered aquatic ecosystems in North American desert regions, with a list of vanishing fishes. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 20:1-62.
Hendrickson, D. A. and W. L. Minckley. (1984). (published February, 1985). Ciénegas - vanishing aquatic climax communities of the American Southwest. Desert Plants 6(2):131-175.
Meffe, G. K., D. A. Hendrickson, W. L. Minckley, and J. N. Rinne. (1983). Factors resulting in decline of the endangered Sonoran Topminnow, Poeciliopsis occidentalis (Atheriniformes: Poeciliidae) in the United States. Biological Conservation 25:135-159.
Hendrickson, D. A., W. L. Minckley, R. R. Miller, D. J. Siebert, and P. H. Minckley. (1980) (published 1981). Fishes of the R’o Yaqui basin, México and United States. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 15(3):65-106.