Gary Jordan has been associated with the Vantuna Research Group since April 1976. 听In that year, Gary supervised the identification of larval fish collected from the various waterways of King Harbor Redondo Beach.听In 1977, he听became a part of the Taxonomic Quality Assurance Program (TQAP), a program that helped larval fish identifiers from central to southern California to standardize their identification methods and examine the characteristics of unknown larval fish. 听Drawings and notes along with articles from various journals were used in this process. Participants included William Watson, H. J. Walker, Gerald E. McGowen, Mike Sowby, along with Gary Jordan and a few others. Unknowns were examined at the TQAP meetings or sent to H. G. 听Moser of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). In 1983, Gary听became the quality control advisor for plankton collections of the Los Angeles County Museum, California Bightwide program.听 From 1988 to 1989, he听supervised Salton Sea plankton collections with processing and data management.听 In 1991, he听along with others from the Los Angeles Natural History Museum identified larval fish collected off of Diablo Canyon. As of this date Gary, has continued to identify larval fish (> 300 species)听collected at King Harbor Redondo Beach for the 100-year Ichthyoplankton Project as lead taxonomist. Gary earned his B.S. from CSU Long Beach and received his Teaching Credential in Life Sciences from Azusa Pacific University.
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