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 1948
04 December 1948 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
04 December 1948 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
04 June 1948 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
04 September 1948 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K. Rafferty Jr.
05 September 1948 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K. Rafferty Jr.
06 September 1948 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K. Rafferty Jr.
07 September 1948 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K. Rafferty Jr.
08 June 1948 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
08 September 1948 CATRON County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K. Rafferty Jr.
09 July 1948 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
09 June 1948 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
10 April 1948 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and H. Campbell
10 July 1948 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
13 November 1948 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
16 June 1948 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
23 October 1948 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and K.R. Coburn
24 July 1948 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and H.O. Taylor
30 August 1948 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and Keen Rafferty Jr.
Submissions from 1947
03 June 1947 OTERO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster, A.A. Lindsey, and E.C. Cadwallader
03 June 1947 OTERO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster, A.A. Lindsey, and E.C. Cadwallader
04 October 1947 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and H. Campbell
13 August 1947 EDDY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
14 August 1947 EDDY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
14 December 1947 VALENCIA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
15 August 1947 EDDY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
15 March 1947 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
16 August 1947 EDDY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
17 August 1947 EDDY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
18 August 1947 EDDY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
18 October 1947 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
19 August 1947 EDDY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
20 August 1947 EDDY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
20 June 1947 CHAVES County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and C. Metzler
21 August 1947 EDDY County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
21 June 1947 CHAVES County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and C. Metzler
22 August 1947 CHAVES County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
23 August 1947 CHAVES County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
25 October 1947 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and G. Mertz
Submissions from 1946
08 June 1946 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
26 October 1946 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
29 March 1946 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
Submissions from 1945
01 June 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
02 June 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
14 January 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
15 February 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
20 October 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
21 December 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and L.R. Koster
23 March 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
25 June 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
26 June 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
27 April 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
27 June 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
28 April 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
29 June 1945 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
Submissions from 1944
01 July 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
01 October 1944 MORA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
02 October 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
02 September 1944 CHAVES County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and R. Lindberg
03 October 1944 MORA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
03 September 1944 CHAVES County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and R. Lindberg
04 September 1944 CHAVES County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and R. Lindberg
09 July 1944 SAN MIGUEL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
11 August 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
12 August 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
17 October 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
18 October 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
21 July 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
22 October 1944 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and R.L. Gill
23 July 1944 RIO ARRIBA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
23 November 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
26 May 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
27 June 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
27 May 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
27 October 1944 DONA ANA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and R.L. Gill
28 June 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
28 May 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
28 September 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
29 October 1944 DONA ANA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and R.L. Gill
29 September 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
30 June 1944 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
30 October 1944 DONA ANA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and R.L. Gill
31 October 1944 DONA ANA County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and R.L. Gill
Submissions from 1943
03 June 1943 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
07 August 1943 SANTA FE County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster, H. Freshley, and P. McDavid
10 June 1943 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
18 July 1943 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and A.A. Lindsey
23 June 1943 SANDOVAL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
Submissions from 1942
14 May 1942 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and F.W. Johnson
14 May 1942 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and F.W. Johnson
15 May 1942 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and F.W. Johnson
Submissions from 1941
08 March 1941 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and M.A. Gee
14 September 1941 BERNALILLO County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster, F. Worman, and E. Camp
23 August 1941 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
26 June 1941 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and M.A. Gee
27 June 1941 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster and M.A. Gee
Submissions from 1940
04 September 1940 SAN MIGUEL County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
15 September 1940 TAOS County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster
28 July 1940 LINCOLN County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster, R. Spensley, and F. Worman
29 July 1940 CHAVES County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster, R. Spensley, and F. Worman
30 July 1940 CHAVES County Specimen Collection Data, W.J. Koster, R. Spensley, and F. Worman
