Nicholas Farrar Hughes was a British and American fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology.
10 Facts About Nicholas Hughes
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Nicholas Hughes was born in North Tawton, Devon, England in 1962.
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In 1970, Ted Nicholas Hughes married his long-time lover Carol Orchard, and the children continued their life on the family farm in Devon.
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In 1998, Ted Nicholas Hughes published Birthday Letters, over 30 years of poems about Plath, which he dedicated to his two children.
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Nicholas Hughes attended Oxford University, receiving a BA degree in zoology in 1984.
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Nicholas Hughes held a post-doctoral fellowship from 1993 to 1995 with the Behavioral Ecology Research Group at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia and was a research associate there from 1995 to 1998.
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Nicholas Hughes studied stream salmonid ecology and conducted research both in the Alaska Interior and in New Zealand.
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Nicholas Hughes was a member of the American Fisheries Society.
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Nicholas Hughes resigned from his faculty position at UAF in December 2006, but continued his scientific research of king salmon until his death.
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On March 16,2009, Nicholas Hughes died by suicide in his home in Fairbanks, Alaska.