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Where was Earl S. Herald educated from 1937 to 1939?
Earl S . Herald Earl Stannard Herald ( April 10 , 1914 - January 16 , 1973 ) was an American zoologist , Ichthyologist and television presenter . He was born in Phoenix , Arizona , and got his PH.D . in 1943 . In 1948 , he became the director of the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco , California , and from 1952 to 1966 , he presented the popular science television programme Science in Action . Throughout his life , he studied a variety of aquatic organisms , especially pipefishes , and described many new taxa . He died in Cabo San Lucas , Baja California , in a scuba diving accident . Education and early career . Herald graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California , Los Angeles in 1937 , he then completed his Masters at the University of California , Berkeley in 1939 and then his PH.D . at Stanford University in 1943 . This selection of institutions allowed Herald to be schooled in zoology by Loye Holmes Miller and Joseph Grinnell , while his training as an ichthyologist was supervised by George S . Myers . He joined the United States Army during the Second World War and rose to the rank of captain in the Sanitary Corps . In 1946 he was an ichthyological investigator on the effects of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll had on reef fishes . In 1947-48 he was appointed to the U.S . Fish & Wildlife Services Philippine fishery program as an aquatic biologist . Steinhart Aquarium and California Academy of Sciences . Herald was appointed as Curator of Aquatic Biology at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco on 2 August 1948 . He expanded the Herpetological Exhibit at the Aquarium from a single boa to one of the worlds leading exhibits of reptiles and amphibians . He also secured major funding for refurbishment and renewal of the Aquarium in the form of a San Francisco Municipal bond . In addition , he conceived of a doughnut-shaped exhibit which would allow for the display of fast swimming pelagic species , for which he also secured major funding . In addition to his work in expanding and improving the Steinhart Aquarium he was also the presenter of the television show Science in Action , replacing the original host Dr Tom Groody , and he presented the show for the rest of its runs between 1952 and 1966 , when the show ceased production . This was a half-hour weekly show , produced by the California Academy of Sciences , which was originally broadcast locally in the San Francisco Bay area but which was eventually shown all over the world . It contained discussions of science topics with noted scientists as well as a popular segment involving unpredictable animals . In one especially notable sequence Herald demonstrated the ability of archer fish Toxotes jaculatrix to shoot food from the walls of their aquarium having spent the previous weeks training the fish . Heralds interest in public education about science led him to propose a San Francisco Bay floating laboratory on a retired , refurbished PT boat , which was designed to allow High School pupils to observe marine biologists at work . He also instituted a graduate course on Aquatic Animals in Captivity for the California State University , San Francisco . Herald was a Curator of the Department of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences , as well as a Trustee of the George Vanderbilt Foundation , and in these roles he was able to secure funding to support the transfer of the Vanderbilt Foundations collection of fishes from Stanford University to the Academy , which also allowed for extensive renovations of the Department of Ichthyology . He was then involved in the transfer of Stanford Universitys collection of fishes and the David Starr Jordan Library to the Academy . Research . Herald was primarily interested in fishes , especially pipefishes , and his initial dissertation was on the taxonomy of the American pipefishes . He was also interested in freshwater dolphins and travelled to the river systems which hold these species , he also travelled widely in his ichthyological research . In all he published 93 papers , many of which were on the systematics and biology of the Syngnathidae . He described many new taxa and some work was co-authored with John Ernest Randall and Charles Eric Dawson . During his life he published two books , the first of which , Living Fishes of the World , was translated into a number of languages . On his death he was working on two additional books which would be published posthumously . His passion for pipefishes was recognised when the monotypic genus Heraldia and the species Cosmocampus heraldi were named in his honour . Additionally , the yellow angelfish ( Centropyge heraldi ) , also known as Herald’s angelfish , was named in his honour by his colleagues Loren Paul Woods and Leonard Peter Schultz , the type being collected with Herald’s assistance during his time at Bikini Atoll . Death and personal life . Herald died on 2 January 1973 in a scuba accident off Cabo San Lucas in Baja California . He was searching for the golden angelfish Holocanthus clarionensis which had been reported by other divers in that area . He was survived by his wife Olivia and their three children , Bruce , Douglas and Katherine . Publications . The following is an incomplete list of publications authored by Earl Stannard Herald : - 1940 A key to the pipefishes of the Pacific American coasts with descriptions of new genera and species University of Southern California Press - 1943 Studies on the classification and interrelationships of the American pipefishes Dissertation Ph . D . Stanford University - 1953 Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas islands . Vol . I . Families from Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae . Bulletin of the United States National Museum No . 202 , v . 1 : i-xxxii + 1-685 , Pls . 1-74 . with L.P . Schultz , E . A . Lachner , A . D . Welander and L . P . Woods - 1959 From pipefish to seahorse ; a study of phylogenetic relationships . Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences , 4th ser. , v . 29 , no . 13 - 1961 Living Fishes of the World Doubleday , New York - 1965 Studies on the Atlantic American pipefishes , with descriptions of new species . California Academy of Sciences , San Francisco . - 1972 Fishes of North America Doubleday , New York - 1983 A field guide to Pacific Coast fishes : North America with William N . Eschmeyer , Houghton Mifflin , Boston part of the Peterson Field Guide series