Donald A. Thomson (1932–2022), A Remembrance

DONALD A. THOMSON, Professor Emeritus of the University of Arizona, enjoyed saying he was a marine scientist and ichthyologist in the Sonoran Desert. Those dissonant images invariably opened conversations revealing Don's passion for marine science and his research program of over 40 years in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez). Don produced major contributions to knowledge about the ecology and ichthyofauna of the Gulf. He published more than 37 scientific papers and book chapters, but many who travel to the Gulf know of him primarily from the Tide Calendar of the Northern Gulf of California, which he produced annually from 1967 to 1994 (later produced by CEDO, the Centro Intercultural de Estudios de Desiertos y Océanos), or by his two books on the fishes of Gulf of California. His Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez, published in 1979 by John Wiley and Sons with Lloyd...