John Nathan Cobb the preeminent fishery scientist of the Pacific Northwest for nearly 40 years. Thompson had offices in the College of Fisheries where, since 1925, he was Director of the International Fisheries Commission (now International Pacific Halibut Commission) charged with the management of, and research on, the Pacific halibut, "Hippoglossus stenolepis", fishery. A Ph.D. from Stanford University, Thompson was appointed Research Professor and Director of the new department on a part-time basis, as he remained Director of the International Fisheries Commission. He remained Director of the School until 1947 when he resigned to establish and head the UW's new Fisheries Research Institute.
Western Flat, South Australia Western Flat, South Australia Western Flat is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east within the Limestone Coast region about south east of the state capital of Adelaide and about south of the municipal seat of Bordertown. Boundaries for the locality were created on 16 March 2000 for the “long established name.” Its name is ultimately derived from the ‘Western Flat Run’ pastoral lease which was established in 1868 by T. Brown. The land use in the locality is ‘primary production’. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that