Joseph Howe Wales was born on 27 November 1907 in Iowa City, Iowa.
Education
In the same year he graduated to Bachelor of Arts and in 1932 to Master of Arts at the Stanford University. In 1934 he received his Doctor of Philosophy After a diving trip to Devils Hole he wrote the scientific description to the previously unrecognized Devil"s Hole pupfish.
Career
Joseph Howe Wales (1907–2002) was an American ichthyologist. In 1926, before his graduation at high school he contributed to the journal Condor where he published articles about the band-tailed pigeon and gulls. Together with George South. Myers he collected three specimens of the now extinct Ash Meadows killifish in 1930.
He later worked as biological surveyor at the Bureau of Fish Conservation, California Division of Fish and Game in San Francisco, California, as District fishereies biologist in Mount Shasta, for the California Trout Investigation and at the California fish hatcheries.
From 1959 to 1979 he served as Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology and pathologist at the Oregon State University, where he analyzed liver cancer in rainbow trouts. He died in Corvallis, Oregon on 21 August 2002.
Membership
Wales was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Fisheries Society.