Michael Barton
H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Biology, Emeritus
Education
BA: zoology, University of California, Los Angeles
MA: biology, California State University, Fullerton
PhD: fisheries biology, Oregon State University
Expertise
A long-standing interest in automotive history has resulted in the restoration of a couple of old cars as well as the development of a CentreTerm course on the impact of the automobile on the environment. He has also written magazine articles on automotive subjects.
BIOGRAPHY
Michael Barton is Emeritus Stodghill Professor of Biology at Centre College where he began teaching in 1979. Prior to that, he was a visiting assistant professor of biology at the University of Virginia.
RESEARCH
Barton’s research interests are in the ecological and physiological adaptations of fishes living in extreme environments. His graduate research was on fishes that live in the intertidal zone of the northeast Pacific coast. While at Centre, Barton has conducted a winter term off-campus program in marine biology at a field station on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. Currently he is researching the evolution and ecology of pupfishes, small inhabitants of lakes and ponds in the Bahamas that experience rapid rates of speciation. In 2007, Barton's textbook Bond's Biology of Fishes, 3rd ed., was published by Wadsworth Cengage Learning.