University of New England

Richard R. Eakin, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences
(207) 602-2388
reakin@une.edu

Education

B.S. – Biology, 1969
           Westminster College

M.S. – Zoology, 1971
           University of Maine, Orono
    

Ph.D. – Zoology, 1976
            University of Maine, Orono

Courses

BIO100   Biology I
    
BIO101   Biology II 

BIO250   Marine Biology

BIO319   Ornithology 
    
BIO331   Biology of Fishes

BIO350   Ecology

BIO420   Biodiversity

BIO420   Polar Biology

BIO421   Tropical Biology

Research Interests

Systematics of Fishes of the Suborder Notothenioidei of the Antarctic

Selected Publications

Eakin RR, Eastman JT, Jones CD (2001) Mental barbel variation in Pogonophryne scotti Regan (Pisces: Perciformes: Artedidraconidae). Antarctic Science 13(4): 363-370.  
    
Eastman JT, Eakin RR (2001) Mental barbel and meristic variation in the Antarctic notothenioid fish Dolloidraco longedorsalis (Perciformes: Artedidraconidae) from the Ross Sea, Polar Biology 24: 729-734.  

Eastman JT, Eakin RR (2000) An updated species list for notothenioid fish (Perciformes; Notothenioidei), with comments on Antarctic species, Archive of Fishery and Marine Research 48(1): 11-20. 
    
 Eastman JT, Eakin RR (1999) Fishes of the genus Artedidraco (Pisces, Artedidraconidae) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with the description of a new species and a colour morph, Antarctic Science 11(1): 13-22. 
    
Eakin RR, Eastman JT (1998) New species of Pogonophryne (Pisces, Artedidraconidae) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, Copeia 4: 1005-1009.