The Scientific Research Laboratory Director: An Essential Figure in the Advancement of Science

Dr. Carl J. Sindermann, Ph.D. D.Sc. (Hon), in addition to his long term positions as research laboratory director and research center director, has been a prolifi c writer of technical articles and books in his scientifi c specialties as well as a series of books about scientists - of which this is the sixth volume. Some of his books have won awards and some have not; probably his most important contribution to science itself was his thousand page two volume treatise on Principal Diseases of Marine Fish and Shellfi sh, published by Academic Press in 1990 and supported at that time by a published record of more than 100 of his own technical papers and a rapidly expanding printed literature, world-wide in scope. Along this long publication route he has produced other technical books with such diverse titles as Sea Herring Stocks of the North Atlantic, Disease Control in North American Marine Aquaculture, Ocean Pollution, and Coastal Pollution. Dr. Sindermann, through his many roles in joint foreign science programs, fi ts a designation of an "international scientist" Beginning with his early cooperative work with Candians of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada on fi sh diseases in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, he went on to provide voluminous data to the FAO-UN International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (ICNAF) in a book titled "Herring Stocks of the Western North Atlantic" He also participated in activities of the Copenhagen-based International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), serving for a decade as chairman of a working group on Introductions of Non-Indigenous Marine Species. He was also a long-term panel member of the Tokyobased United States-Japan Joint Natural Resources Panels (UJNR), serving for several years as editor of "Proceedings of UJNR"