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Nigel Marley Nigel Marley
Role Well after 13.5 years working within the Faculty of Science, I have now moved out to become the team leader of Small Systems Team within the Information Service. My team is located within Babbage 301 and will consist of two system developers and me. I also give technical support in some areas of the Faculty of Science & Technology with specialist equipment such as microscopes; image analysis hardware and software; & specific research techniques. Qualifications & background BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences (2:1) Professional membership Fellow of the Linnean Society of London: FLS Member of Association of University Administrators Member of International Society for Invertebrate Morphology Member of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Roles on external bodies Fauna Europeae Taxonomic Specialist: Tardigrada Teaching interests Ecology Microscopy Taxonomy Research interests Ph.D Research
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Other Research Interests The taxonomy, nomenclature and ecology of tardigrades, phylum Tardigrada. My work primarily focuses on the alpha and beta taxonomy of the phylum tardigrada, with investigations into the application of taxonomic characters across different ranks and taxa. Additional I have an interest in the biogeography and synecology of taxa. The majority of the taxa used in this research are freshwater and terrestrial taxa. Other research Tardigrada Specimen Collection This is probably the largest collection in the United Kingdom. It is composed of specimens mounted on microslides using either Faure's medium (older material) or Heinz PVA (newer material). Currently the collections contains approximately 3,500 specimens representing just over 100 species. Material from the following locations are included: British Isles (United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland): terrestrial, freshwater and marine. Europe (France, Spain, Canary Islands, Azores, Italy and Denmark) Asia (Peoples Republic of China, Russia incl. many of the Arctic islands groups, and Japan) Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) Africa (Gambia and South Africa) South America (Venezuela and Ecuador) North America (USA, including New York, Tennessee, Georgia, California, Oregon and Alaska; Canada, including Ellesmere Island and Newfoundland; Greenland, Disko Bay) Tardigrada database The database is not published, although a few alpha edition copies have been distributed for comments and testing. It contains approximately 1850 references and 1000 taxa. References can be searched by authors, journal and keywords. Taxa based information includes full nomenclature listings, authority information, junior and senior synonyms and minor rank taxa details, subspecies, forms etc. Full descriptions will follow in 2003 - 2005. It has a modular construction and currently includes units for Bibliography, Taxonomy and Biogeography. A new unit for web-access has been developed, but not released. Further modules such as a microslide cataloge, a type material register will be added in 2003. The database could represent a medium for producing a new monograph on the phylum, utilising hyperlinks to source documents/files. Grants & contracts Winston Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellowship to visit the People's Republic of China for one month in 2005. Details to be conformed later in the year.
E.U. Travel & Research Grants Improving Human Potential & Access to Infrastructure. COBICE (Copenhagen Biosystematic Center, Copenhagen, Denmark).
Small Grants Plymouth Martine Fund - towards attending 9th International Symposium on Tardigrada, Florida, USA July 2003.
Faculty of Science, University of Plymouth - towards attending 8th International Symposium on Tardigrada, Copenhagen, Denmark August 2000.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth - towards attending 6th International Symposium on Tardigrada, Cambridge, UK, 1994. Creative practice & artistic projects Member of the University of Plymouth Choral Society. Publications Papers Published Marley, N.J., McInnes, S.J. and Sands, C.J. (2011). Phylum Tardigrada: A re-evaluation of the Parachela. Zootaxa, 2819, 51–64 (2011 April 14th). Sands, C.J., McInnes, S.J., Marley, N.J., Goodall-Copestake, W., Convey, P. & Linse, K. (2008) Phylum Tardigarda: an "individual" approach. Cladistics, 24: 1-18. Marley, N.J. (2008). Biodiversity within the Milnesiidae (Tardigrada). JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 269 (12): 1466-1466. (Abstract) McInnes, S.; Marley, N.J.; Sands, C.J. (2008). A Re-Evaluation of the Parachela (Eutardigrada: Tardigrada). JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 269 (12): 1466-1466. (Abstract) Gibson, J.A.E., Cromer, L., Agius, J.T., McInnes, S.J. & Marley, N.J. (2007). Marley, N.J. (2006). A new species of Tardigrada, Platicrista ramsayi sp. nov. from the páramo of Volcán Chiles, Ecuador. Zootaxa, 1166: 35-48. and Corrigenda due to printers error: Zootaxa, 1762: 68.
Nickel, K., Miller, R.M. & Marley, N.J. (2001). Tardigrades of South America: Machu Picchu and Ollantaytambo, Peru. Zoologische Anzeiger, 240: 505-509.
Sutcliffe, A.J. & Blake, W. Jr. (plus 7 other contributing authors) (2000). Biological activity on a decaying caribou antler at Cape Herschel, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, High Arctic Canada. Polar Record, 36: 233-246.
Nelson, D.R. & Marley, N.J. (2000). The biology of lotic Tardigrada. Freshwater Biology, 44: 93-108.
Bertolani, R., Marley, N.J. & Nelson, D.R. (1999). Re-description of the genus Thulinia (Eutardigrada, Hypsibiidae) and of Thulinia augusti (Murray, 1907) comb. nov.. Zoologische Anzeiger, 238: 139-145.
Nelson, D.R., Marley, N.J. & Bertolani, R. (1999). Re-description of the genus Pseudobiotus (Eutardigrada, Hypsibiidae) and of the new type species Pseudobiotus kathmanae sp. n. Zoologische Anzeiger, 238: 311-317.
Marley, N.J. & Wright, D.E. (1996). Amphibolus weglarskae Dastych, a new addition to the Tardigrada of Iceland with an updated checklist of Icelandic species (Eohypsibiidae, Eutardigrada). Quekett Journal of Microscopy, 37: 541-545.
Greaves, P.M. & Marley, N.J. (1994). The tardigrade fauna of Bookham Common. The London Naturalist, 73: 185-190.
Marley, N.J. & D.E. Wright (1994). Pyxidium tardigradum Van Der Land, a rarely record symphoriant on Waterbears (Tardigrada). Quekett Journal of Microscopy, 37: 232-233.
Papers in press
Conference Papers Marley, N.J. (2008). Biodiversity within the Milnesiidae (Tardigrada). First International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2008. McInnes, S., Marley, N.J. & Sands, C.J. (2008). A Re-Evaluation of the Parachela (Eutardigrada: Tardigrada). First International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2008.
Marley, N.J. (2003). Preliminary Results from a Study on Ecuadorian Tardigrada. 9th International Symposium on Tardigrada, University of South Florida, Florida, USA, August 2003.
Marley, N.J. (2000). Tardigrade assemblages from an altitudinal transect in Venezuela. 8th International Symposium on Tardigrada, Copenhagen, Denmark August 2000.
Casey, A., Green, R., Marley, N.J. & Mercer, M.A. (1999). Centralised Timetabling: A bridge too far?. Association of University Administrators Annual Conference, UMIST, Manchester 1999.
Marley, N.J. (1997). Cuticular sculpturing in the Pseudechiniscus suillus species complex, with the description of new taxonomic characteristics.
Bertolani, R., Marley, N.J. and Nelson, D.R. (1997). Some considerations on Thulinia (Eutardigrada, Hypsibiidae), with the re-description of the genus and of Thulinia augusti (Murray, 1907) comb. n.
Marley, N.J., Wright, D.E. and Russell, P.M. (1994). Histological study on the cysts of Amphibolus weglarskae. 6th International Symposium on the Tardigrada. August 1994.
Marley, N.J. and Wright, D.E. (1994). Tardigrada from Northern North America. 6th International Symposium on the Tardigrada.
Posters Marley, N.J., McInnes, S., & Sands, C.J. (2011) Morphology versus molecular: a meiofaunal conundrum resolved, Second International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 2011.
Marley, N.J. (2002). Bear Hunting in Devon (Tardigrada). Joint Meeting of the British Ecological Society & the Freshwater Biological Society, Crewe August 2002.
Russell, P.M., Marley, N.J. & Hockings, M.E. (2000). Do confocal microscopy and tardigrades have a future together? Eighth International Symposium on Tardigrada, Copenhagen, Denmark August 2000.
Marley, N.J. (1998). One species new to science and 8 new additions to the Tardigrada fauna of the British Isles from south west England. 10th International Meiofauna Conference (XIMCO), Plymouth, UK. Conferences organised 10 Links Moderator for the Tardigrada information discussion list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/tardigrada.html. Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre (MBERC): http://www.research.plymouth.ac.uk/mberc/. |
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My programme of research covers the use of current taxonomic characters (claws and buccal aparatus) in the Eutardigrada and the use of cuticular sculpturing as a diagnostic character in Pseudechiniscus-line taxa (Heterotardigrada). 