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In the last decades of Dr. Hubbs' life, he was joined in this book project by his former graduate students, Dr. Gary Garrett of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Dr. Robert Edwards, professor at University of Texas Pan-American (UTPA).
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In 2009 Dr. Timothy Bonner of Texas State University at San Marcos joined the collaboration by making his group's independently authored species accounts available for inclusion in our web offerings. More recently the University of Texas' Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has been included as part of the team serving our data to the web, and offering cutting edge digital data maintenance and management as well as super computer supercomputer processing power for our research that utilizes the now relatively mature database.
This online database is thus the product of a growing, multi-institutional, and multi-year collaborative effort to consolidate, standardize and fully georeference all of the known scientific information on the freshwater fishes of Texas. All of the collaborators' institutions have provided support by at least allowing the collaborators to dedicate their time to this endeavor, but in some cases, they have contributed much more by sponsoring specific sub-projects.
Now that our data are provided on the web, they are available to more people than ever before and our website is designed to accept user comments and contributions, making the world-wide community of researchers, professionals, and public all at least potential collaborators. We hope that many of our users will be collectors who contributed data via specimens they deposited in museums and other users with any kind of expertise and experience that make them uniquely qualified to comment on, and help improve, our data. Please take the opportunity to collaborate on this project. Once vetted by project staff, your contributions will be forever included in our database and digital library.