Nicholas Hughes

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Nicholas Farrar Hughes (January 17, 1962 – March 16, 2009) was an English-American fisheries biologist who specialized in stream salmonid ecology.

Hughes, the son of American poet Sylvia Plath and English poet Ted Hughes, as well as the younger brother of artist and poet Frieda Hughes.

When he was a young boy, he and his sister were well known on the internet, especially after his mother's well-publicized suicide.

Hughes held dual British/American citizenship.

Early life

Nicholas was born in North Tawton, Devon, England, in 1962. Hughes was related to Nicholas Ferrar (1592-1637) through his father's mother.

Plath wrote the bulk of the poems that would make up her most popular collection of poems (the posthumously published Ariel), as well as her semi-autobiographical book The Bell Jar, which was published after her son's. Ted Hughes began an affair with Assia Wevill in the summer of 1962; Hughes and Plath were divorced in the fall of 1962. On February 11, 1963, when Nicholas, a young boy, and his sister Frieda, two and a half, slept upstairs, Plath taped shut the doorframe of the room in which the children were sleeping and determined that fumes could not escape to hurt the children, and the children were killed by suicide using the toxic gas from the kitchen oven.

Plath introduced "Nick and the Candlestick," one of her last poems, to her son.

Frieda & Nicholas' mother, Sylvia Plath, died in 1963 after her father Ted Hughes adopted Assia Wevill in the family's house to care for his two children, Ted Hughes and Plath.

Assisa Wevill and her 4-year-old son by Hughes committed suicide in 1969.

Ted Hughes married Carol Orchard, Ted Hughes' long-time girlfriend, in 1970, and the children continued to live on the family farm in Devon.

Nicholas was not aware of his mother's death until the 1970s, despite the posthumous reputation of Sylvia Plath and the increasing literary and biographical writings about her death. Hughes wrote Birthday Letters in 1998, the first collection of poems about Plath, which he dedicated to his two children.

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Professional career

Hughes was ardent about wildlife, particularly fish. He earned a BA degree in Zoology from Oxford University in 1984. He worked in Fairbanks, Alaska, as a research assistant with the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, part of the United States Geological Survey's Biological Resources Division, from 1984 to 1991, and, from 1990 to 1991, he was a student intern with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's Sportfish Division. He received a Ph.D. in biology from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1991 (UAF).

Hughes, a doctorate from the University of Arizona's School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, from 1991 to 1992, and as a research associate with the Institute of Arctic Biology from 1992 to 1998, he held positions of increasing responsibility, teaching at UAF's School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences in 1991-1922 and 1998. He was a research associate at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, from 1993 to 1995, and was a post-doctoral fellow from 1993 to 1995. He became an assistant professor at the University of Fisheries and Ocean Science in September 1998. Both in Alaska and New Zealand, Hughes studied stream salmonid ecology and did research. He was a member of the American Fisheries Society.

Hughes pioneered stream ecology as a prominent Alaska biologist throughout his academic career. Dermot Cole, a Fairbanks reporter, was quoted: Dermot Cole, a reporter from Fairbanks:

In December 2006, Hughes resigned from his UAF faculty position but continued his scientific study of king salmon until his death.

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