Graham Gall and Mike Fry Move Onward

Professor Graham A. E. Gall retired from Animal Science in January 2003. He joined the department in September 1966 after completing degrees in Animal Science (B.Sc.) and Animal Breeding (M.Sc.) at the University of Alberta and in Animal Genetics (Ph.D.) at Purdue University. Early in his career, working in the area of biochemical genetics related to quantitative animal performance, Graham began his efforts on breed improvement problems with rainbow trout. This resulted in an association with the hatchery program of the California Department of Fish and Game that lasted for more than 20 years. In the mid-1970s, problems associated with the conservation of native trout species in California allowed Graham to return to an old interest of applying biochemical methods to understanding the genetic relationship among natural populations.

One of the highlights of his career was identifying and restoring native Golden Trout to parts of the Kern River Basin in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. In addition, he published extensively on breed improvement of fish for farming, including original and landmark work on the genetics of rainbow trout reproduction. He became nationally and internationally respected as an authority on fish genetics and worked in many countries of the world for various governmental and international organizations dealing with improving fish species for farming and the conservation of native fish species. He participated in trout, salmon and tilapia research projects in Chile, the Philippines and Israel. He was a founding officer of the International Association for Genetics in Aquaculture. Graham's teaching career included undergraduate courses in animal genetics, animal breeding, statistics and wildlife genetics, as well as graduate courses on the theory of quantitative genetics. For the last ten years of his career, he supervised the undergraduate teaching and student advising programs in Animal Science. In retirement, Graham plans to continue his hobby with personal computers and the Internet while enjoying extended travel with Betty, his wife of 42 years. He has three children, two daughters living with their families in the Sacramento area and a son living with his family in Maryland. These families include five grandchildren with whom he and Betty spend many joyful hours. 

At the end of April D. Michael Fry retired from the faculty to accept a position as Senior Scientist with Stratus Consulting, a Boulder, Colorado, firm with a practice specializing in natural resources damage assessment, ecological monitoring and environmental restoration planning. Mike will continue to design and conduct studies of pollutant effects on wild birds, much the same as the studies he has done here on Exxon Valdez seabirds, Johnston Island tropicbirds, California seabirds impacted by DDT and chemical spills, and California Condor lead exposure.

Throughout his residence in Avian Sciences and later in Animal Science, Mike trained graduate students in ecology and worked with various UC Davis faculty.