William J. Koster Field Journals
The Division of Fishes at the University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology offers access to an archive of historic field notes authored by William J. Koster, UNM's first Professor of Vertebrate Zoology. This is an ongoing project, and as part of its mission to serve as an educational resource for the University of New Mexico community and beyond, the project's goals are to digitally capture field notes associated with the Museum of Southwestern Biology fish collections and make them available for online querying and browsing.
Current grant funding has allowed for William Koster's field notes dating between 1939 and 1956 to be the first to be available. Subsequent funding opportunities will allow the Museum to add expended content from Koster's field research as well as other biologists who have contributed to the Museum's collections of flora and fauna from New Mexico and the southwestern United States.
William J. Koster's field notes are presented here as an online archive of information from his surveys of populations and life histories of fish species collected from the Rio Grande, San Juan, Gila and Pecos River drainage's. Koster's field notes are in Adobe PDF format.
Submissions from 1956
11 May 1956 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
30 June 1956 MORA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
Submissions from 1954
01 September 1954 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
02 June 1954 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
02 September 1954 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
03 June 1954 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
03 September 1954 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
08 September 1954 COLFAX County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and W.H. Wolfrum
09 September 1954 COLFAX County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and W.H. Wolfrum
10 June 1954 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
10 September 1954 COLFAX County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and W.H. Wolfrum
15 June 1954 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
15 May 1954 SOCORRO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and H. Campbell
16 June 1954 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
16 May 1954 SOCORRO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and H. Campbell
18 August 1954 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
Submissions from 1953
07 April 1953 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and J. Sands
08 June 1953 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
09 June 1953 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
Submissions from 1952
03 May 1952 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
10 May 1952 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
17 May 1952 GUADALUPE County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
Submissions from 1951
05 June 1951 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and J. Donahoe
07 June 1951 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
08 June 1951 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
13 June 1951 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
16 June 1951 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
24 June 1951 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
Submissions from 1950
01 September 1950 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
04 September 1950 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
05 September 1950 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
06 July 1950 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
06 September 1950 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
06 September 1950 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
08 June 1950 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
09 June 1950 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
12 June 1950 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
13 May 1950 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
14 June 1950 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
17 June 1950 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
18 June 1950 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
20 May 1950 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
23 June 1950 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
28 August 1950 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
28 May 1950 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
29 August 1950 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
29 August 1950 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
30 August 1950 LUNA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
30 August 1950 LUNA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
31 August 1950 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
31 August 1950 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
Submissions from 1949
01 September 1949 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
02 December 1949 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Atkinson
02 September 1949 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
03 December 1949 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Atkinson
03 September 1949 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
03 September 1949 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
04 July 1949 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
04 November 1949 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
04 September 1949 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
05 November 1949 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
08 June 1949 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
09 June 1949 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
10 June 1949 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
10 June 1949 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
15 April 1949 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
16 April 1949 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
16 July 1949 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
18 June 1949 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
18 November 1949 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
19 June 1949 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
19 March 1949 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster, K.R. Coburn, and E. Goeke
19 November 1949 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster, K.R. Coburn, and G. Atkinson
20 August 1949 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
21 August 1949 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
21 July 1949 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
21 October 1949 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
22 August 1949 HIDALGO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
23 April 1949 TORRANCE County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
23 August 1949 HIDALGO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
24 August 1949 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
24 July 1949 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
25 August 1949 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
25 August 1949 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
26 August 1949 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
26 February 1949 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
27 August 1949 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
28 August 1949 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
28 July 1949 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
28 October 1949 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
29 August 1949 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
29 May 1949 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
29 October 1949 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster, K.R. Coburn, and G. Atkinson
30 August 1949 GRANT County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
Submissions from 1948
01 September 1948 MCKINLEY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and Keen Rafferty Jr.
01 September 1948 MCKINLEY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and Keen Rafferty Jr.
02 September 1948 MCKINLEY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and Keen Rafferty Jr.
03 June 1948 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
03 September 1948 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K. Rafferty Jr.
03 September 1948 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K. Rafferty Jr.
