James S. Albert
{{Short description|American biologist, professor}}
James S. Albert is a professor of Biology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.{{cite web |url=http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~jxa4003/ |title=Albert Lab |publisher=University of Louisiana Lafayette |accessdate=September 16, 2013 }} Dr. Albert is an author of over 100 scientific papers on the evolution and diversity of fishes,{{cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BSslDaEAAAAJ&hl=en |title=James S. Albert |work=Google Scholar Citations |accessdate=September 16, 2013 }} and is an expert in the systematics and biodiversity of Neotropical electric fishes (Gymnotiformes). Dr. Albert and his colleagues to date have described 50 new species.
Education
Albert received a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987, and went on to earn a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Michigan.{{cite web |title=James Albert |url=https://biology.louisiana.edu/james-albert |website=Department of Biology |access-date=30 March 2023 |language=en |date=8 May 2015}}
Publications
Dr. Albert is co-editor with Roberto E. Reis of the book Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes,{{cite book
|editor1-last=Albert|editor1-first=J. S.
|editor2-first=R. E.|editor2-last=Reis
|year=2011
|title=Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes
|publisher=University of California Press
|location=Berkeley
|url=http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520268685
}} which explores the evolutionary forces underlying the formation of the Amazon and Neotropical fish faunas. Dr. Albert is also co-editor with [https://utexas.academia.edu/PeterVanDerSleen Peter van der Sleen] of the book Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas,{{cite book
|editor1-first=P.|editor1-last=van der Sleen
|year=2017
|editor2-last=Albert|editor2-first=J. S.
|title=Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas
|location=University of Princeton Press
|isbn=9780691170749
|url=http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11146.html}} which provides descriptions and identification keys for all the known genera of fishes that inhabit the Amazon basin and other regions of tropical South America.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gzc2DwAAQBAJ&q=james+S.+albert+Field+Guide+to+the+Fishes+of+the+Amazon%2C+Orinoco%2C+and+Guianas&pg=PA7|title=Field Guide to the Fishes of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas|last1=Sleen|first1=Peter van der|last2=Albert|first2=James S.|date=2017-12-19|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9781400888801|language=en}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~jxa4003/=James Albert's profile at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette]
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Category:21st-century American biologists