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Dear Pete,

I've been doing research with the New England Aquarium since 1983, for 11 years
as a paid staff member and since 1994 as NEAq's "Research Scholar" (I'm a
professor at Boston University).  A great deal of research has been done in
collaboration with universities through the Edgerton Research Laboratory and the
curatorial departments.

The major hindrances that we have experienced are extreme limitations on space,
extreme limitations in staff time availability at the aquarium, and lack of
reciprocity in animal care and use protocols.  When I was at NEAq and starting
up the LV-SSP (Lake Victoria haplochromine SSP) space was so limited that I set
up 45 aquariums at home to accomodate the study collection; Scott Dowd, an NEAq
aquarist (now active in Project Piaba), helped care for the collection at my
home.  Today we are conducting collaborative work between BU and NEAq (and
Harvard) on brain evolution and neurobiology in Lake Tanganyika cichlids.  Most
of the details have been worked out.

Les



Les Kaufman
Professor of Biology
Boston University Marine Program
and
Center for Ecology and Conservation 
Biology

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