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Use of images and copyright
By contributing images to MarLIN, the owners of those images have agreed to their use on the MarLIN web site, in MarLIN publications, posters and other promotional material in not-for-profit publications. Contributors retain the copyright of their images. MarLIN indicates the individual or organization that supplied each image and brief contact details on the Web site.

Images must not be copied for any commercial purpose or wide dissemination, including use on Web sites, leaflets or in promotional brochures.  Image providers must be acknowledged against any use of their image(s). If images are copied, the name of the image provider and that it was published on the MarLIN Web site must be acknowledged. For instance:

Image:  Jon Davies/JNCC (published on the MarLIN Web site)

If images are required for commercial purposes or for wider dissemination, the image provider must be contacted for permission directly (unless otherwise stated) and not through the MarLIN team and the form of acknowledgement obtained from the owner.

Image copyright holders
The MarLIN team would like to thanks the following photographers, scientists and organizations for providing images for the MarLIN Web site.
Jim Anderson

Jim Anderson has been diving for 15 years with the Scotish Sub Aqua Club and has an exensive collection of Scottish underwater images, particularly invertebrates. For example visit the Scottish Nudibranchs Web site.

Contact:
Jim Anderson
Baird Hall
High Street, Linlithgow
West Lothian EH49 7ES
Email: jander4454@gmail.com

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Lin Baldock

Lin Baldock is interested in the distribution of temperate marine invertebrates and has a collection of underwater images from the UK and Ireland.

Contact:
MarLIN in the first instance

Guy Baker

Guy Baker works for the Marine Life Information Network as Communications and Outreach Officer. He is an amateur naturalist and takes pictures of marine life in his spare time.

Contact:
Guy Baker
Email: guba@mba.ac.uk

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Peter Barfield

Peter Barfield is a marine biologist and freelance environmental consultant with a growing collection of digital images of both infaunal macrobenthos from UK samples and intertidal fauna from Cornwall and elsewhere.

Contact:
Peter Barfield,
Sea-nature Studies
Tel: +44 (0)1208 851040
Web: http://www.seanature.co.uk
Email: peter@seanature.co.uk

R.S.K. Barnes

Images reproduced with the author's permission from:
Barnes, R.S.K., 1994. The brackish-water fauna of northwestern Europe: An identification guide to brackish-water habitats, ecology and macrofauna for field workers, naturalists and students. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Contact:
Dr R.S.K.Barnes
Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge
Downing Street
Cambridge,
CB2 3EJ
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 333 296

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Dr James Bell

Dr James Bell is a senior lecturer in marine biology at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand whose research interests focus on Marine Protected Areas, self-recruitment and rocky shore and sponge ecology.

Contact:
Dr James Bell,
School of Biological Sciences,
PO Box 600,
Wellington 6140,
New Zealand.

Email: james.bell@vuw.ac.nz

Dr Matt Bentley

Dr Matt Bentley is a research scientist working at the University of Newcastle but does not normally offer picture agency agreements. MarLIN should be contacted if you wish to use commercially any of the images provided by Dr Bentley and included on the MarLIN Web site.

Contact:
Dr Matt Bentley,
Department of Marine Sciences and Coastal Management,
Ridley Building,
University of Newcastle,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU.
Email: m.g.bentley@ncl.ac.uk

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Dr Brian Bett

Dr Brian Bett is a marine biologist at the Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC). The DEEPSEAS Group at SOC hold a very large collection of deep-sea floor photographs and video and a major national collection of deep-sea invertebrate specimen material ("Discovery Collections") from the waters around the British Isles and world-wide.  Images provided by Dr Brian Bett must not be used in any capacity without prior permission from Dr Brian Bett.

Contact:
Dr Brian Bett / Mrs Pamela Talbot,
DEEPSEAS Group,
Southampton Oceanography Centre,
Empress Dock,
Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK.
E-mail: bjb@soc.soton.ac.uk
Tel. +44 (0)23 80596355
Fax. +44 (0)23 80596247
Web. http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/GDD/DEEPSEAS/

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BIODIDAC

BIODIDAC aims to:

  • create a media bank of text, images, sounds and video in a digital format that can be used and adapted for teaching biology in French;
  • create an electronic discussion group accessible, by electronic mail, to facilitate the exchange of expertise and materials amongst teachers;
  • allow the distribution of the material contained in the data bank using the Internet.

Contact:
For information about image sources and permission to use BIODIDAC material please visit the BIODIDAC Web-site at http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/index.htm.

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Dr John Bishop

John Bishop teaches at the University of Plymouth; his research centres on ascidians and bryozoans.

Contact:
John Bishop
Marine Biological Association
Citadel Hill Laboratory
Plymouth PL1 2PB

Tel: +44 (0)1752 633229
E-mail: jbis@mba.ac.uk

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Dr Gerald Boalch

Dr Gerald Boalch is a marine botanist and Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal 'Botanica Marina' (www.degruyter.de/journals/bm/) He has a large collection of colour slides of seaweeds and phytoplankton, together with slides of the Torrey Canyon and Amoco Cadiz oil spils.

Contact:
Dr Gerald T. Boalch,
11 Torridge Close,
Plympton,
Plymouth, PL7 2DH.
Email: gtb@mba.ac.uk

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Peter H. van Bragt

Peter H. van Bragt is a molecular biologist with marine biology as a hobby. He has a great interest in the marine flora and fauna of the Netherlands with a special interest in Dutch sea slugs. He owns a large collection of photographs of Dutch marine species and habitats. He is strongly involved in Dutch marine biology monitoring projects and courses.

Contact:
Peter H. van Bragt,
Antiloopstraat 28,
4817 LC BREDA,
The Netherlands.
Email: vanbragt.phjm@hsbrabant.nl
Web site: http://www.anemoon.org

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Mark Breckels

Mark is a marine ecologist with an interest in trophic interactions and climate change. He is a keen photographer.

Contact:
markbreckels@hotmail.com

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Greg Brown

Greg Brown was actively engaged in marine biological research, particularly nudibranch taxonomy, between 1970 and 1985, contributing to various publications and books intended to clarify identification of N.Atlantic species. He now manages oceanographic surveys conducted by Gardline Environmental Ltd.

Contact:
Greg Brown
Forge Cottage
125 Yarmouth Road
Thorpe-St-Andrew,
Norwich NR7 0QY
E-mail: greg.brown@gardline.co.uk

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Simon Brown

Simon Brown takes a wide range of photographs from shallow reefs to deep wrecks in temperate and tropical waters. He would be pleased to hear about any interesting projects or unusual requirement that users would like captured on film.

Contact:
Simon Brown,
11 Cherberry Close,
Fleet,
Hants, GU51 2TD.
Email: simon@simonbrownimages.com
Web site: www.simonbrownimages.com

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Francis Bunker

Francis Bunker has a large library of still and moving environmental images specialising in underwater photography around the British Isles. For more details visit:  www.marineseen.com

Contact:
Francis Bunker
MarineSeen
Estuary Cottage
Bentlass
Hundleton
Pembrokeshire SA71 5RN
Wales, United Kingdom.
Tel (land line): +44 (0)1646 621277
Tel (mobile):   +44 (0)7968 486256
Email: fbunker@marineseen.com
Web site: www.marineseen.com

Check out the British Isles Seaweed Images Web Site www.weedseen.co.uk

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Ingvar Byrkjedal

Contact:
Ingvar Byrkjedal
University of Bergen - Museum of Zoology
Museplass 3, N-5007 Bergen
Norway.
E-Mail: ingvar.byrkjedal@zmb.uib.no

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Gerry Casey

Gerry Casey is the course organizer/co-ordinator for the Marine Conservation Society South East Group and is a keen amateur underwater photographer and member of Bsoup.

Contact:
Gerry Casey,
11 Southfield Avenue,
Watford,
Hertfordshire, WD24 7DT
Email: gerrycasey.mcs@btinternet.com

Crown copyright, reproduced with the permission of CEFAS, Lowestoft

The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) is a UK-based research and consultancy centre. CEFAS provides services in fisheries science and management, environmental monitoring and assessment, fish farming, fish health, disease and hygiene to clients around the world.

Contact:
CEFAS Lowestoft Laboratory,
Pakefield Road,
Lowestoft,
Suffolk NR33 0HT
E-mail: d.glasscock@cefas.co.uk
Web site: www.cefas.co.uk

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Nigel Charles

Nigel Charles holds images of saline lagoon and mollusc species but does not normally offer picture agency arrangements.  MarLIN should be contacted if you wish to use commercially any of the images provided by Nigel Charles and included on the MarLIN Web site.

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Ken Collins

Dr Ken Collins is a marine scientist working at the Southampton Oceanography Centre with interests in artificial reefs and south coast marine habitats and species.

Contact:
email: kjc@soc.soton.ac.uk
Web site: http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/soes/research/groups/reef/

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Dr Elizabeth Cook

Dr Elizabeth Cook is a marine biologist at the Scottish Association for Marine Science.  Her main research interests are invasive species, new species for aquaculture and integrated aquaculture.

Contact:
Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
Oban
Argyll
PA37 1QA
Tel: 01631 559 243
Fax: 01631 559 001
E-mail: ejc@sams.ac.uk
Website: www.sams.ac.uk

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Countryside Council for Wales

The intertidal survey team of the Countryside Council for Wales has a collection of images marine species and habitats and site views and landscapes of the intertidal zone for the whole of Wales.

Contact:
Mr Paul Brazier
Intertidal ecologist
Countryside Council for Wales,
Maes y Ffynnon,
Penrhosgarnedd,
Bangor,
Gwynedd
LL57 2DW
Tel: 01248 385626
E-mail: p.brazier@ccw.gov.uk

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Inês Cristovão

Inês Cristovão is a marine biologist and Ph.D student at the University of Lisbon, specializing in the morphology and geometric morphometrics of decapods and gastropods, and population genetic differentiation.

Contact:
Laboratório Marítimo da Guia (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa),
Estrado do Guincho,
2750-374 Cascais.
Email: micsilva@fc.ul.pt

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Fiona Crouch

Fiona Crouch joined the MarLIN team in April 2006 to run the Shore Thing project. She has previously worked as the ranger for the St. Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve where her interest in underwater photography began.

Contact:
MarLIN (as above)
Email: ficr@mba.ac.uk

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Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP)

Image of specimen of Anotrichium barbatum (CCAP 1359/1) collected from an oyster bank near Pwllheli, Cymru by Dr C. Maggs in 1998.

The CCAP marine section is based at the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Scotland and the freshwater and protozoa section is based at CEH, Windermere. The CCAP is one of 10 microbial collections making up the National Culture Collection organisation (www.ukncc.co.uk). The CCAP provides microbial and algal cultures for aquaculture, biotechnology, research and education.

Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa
SAMS Research Services Ltd
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
OBAN
Argyll PA37 1QA
Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)1631 559000
Fax: +44 (0)1631 559001
Email: CCAP@sams.ac.uk
Web site: http://www.ccap.ac.uk/index.htm

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Mike Daines

Mike Daines is a professional photographer and photo-journalist, as well as being a keen diver.

Contact:
As for Colin Speedie

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Sue Daly

Sue Daly is a writer, broadcaster, underwater photographer and natural history film-maker based in the Channel Island of Jersey. Sue Daly is author of the book 'The Marine Life of the Channel Isles' (1998) and the 'Wildlife of the Channel Isles' Web site. She holds a large collection of underwater photographs from the Channel Isles, the Red Sea, Maldives, Malaysia and the Mediterranean.

Contact:
Sue Daly
Sous La Cloche,
La Ruette Du Coin Varin,
St Peter,
Jersey JE3 7EJ, Channel Islands
Email: sue@suedalyproductions.com
Web site: www.suedalyproductions.com

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John Davenport

Professor John Davenport is a marine biologist who has worked on sea turtles for several years and has published papers on their swimming mechanisms and ecophysiology.  He is particularly interested in turtle thermal regulation in relation to global warming and sex determination.

Contact:
Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology
University College Cork
Lee Maltings
Prospect Row
CORK
Ireland.

Tel. (021) 904355
E-mail:  j.davenport@ucc.ie

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Devon Wildlife Trust

Devon Wildlife Trust is the only independent organization exclusively concerned with all aspects of wildlife conservation in Devon.

Contact:
Stephen Hussey
Devon Wildlife Trust,
Shirehampton House,
35-37 St David's Hill,
Exeter, EX4 4DA.
Web site:www.devonwildlifetrust.org

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Kerry Donovan

Kerry Donovan gained a Marine and Freshwater Biology degree from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 2004. She is now a Primary School teacher.

Contact:
23 Camden Street
Gosport
Hampshire
PO12 3HZ

Email: kerry@kad23.plus.com

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Richard Edmonds

Richard Edmonds holds a large collection of marine images from western Lyme Bay and a smaller Scottish and tropical collection.   He also specialises in geology and fossils of the Dorset coast and gives illustrated, informal, non-technical lectures on all of these subjects.

Contact:
E-mail:  r.edmonds@dorsetcc.gov.uk

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Marco Faasse

Marco Faasse studies the distribution of marine invertebrates in The Netherlands. He is especially interested in certain underrecorded groups, e.g. Amphipoda, Ostracoda, Bryozoa, Hydrozoa, and in alien species. He owns a collection of images of species from these and other groups.

Contact:
Marco Faasse
Schorerstraat 14
4341 GN Arnemuiden
The Netherlands
e-mail: mafaasse@hetnet.nl
website: www.cryptosula.net

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Mike Firth

Mike Firth is a mature student and diver with an eye for photography. He has a limited supply of coastal photographs available.

Contact:
16 Bransdale Gardens,
Guiseley,
Leeds LS20 8QE
Email: M.Firth@2005.hull.ac.uk

Alex Fraser

Alex Fraser is a technician in marine biology at the University of Plymouth and ready for any photographic opportunities.

Contact:
Alex Fraser,
Room 703 Davy Building,
University of Plymouth,
Drake Circus,
Plymouth, PL4 8AA.
Email: afraser@plymouth.ac.uk

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Images reproduced with permission from:

Roper, C.F.E., Sweeney, M.J. & Nauen, C.E., 1984. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 3. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, FAO Fisheries Synopsis, 125, 3, 277 pp.

Contact:
Library enquiries
FAO
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome
Italy
Tel: +39-6-57051
Fax: + 39-6-57053360

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Dr Jason Hall-Spencer

Contact:
Jason Hall-Spencer
Royal Society Research Fellow
Marine Institute
University of Plymouth
Plymouth
PL4 8AA

Jason Hall-Spencer is a benthic ecologist specialising in calcareous marine organisms and underwater videography.

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Christian Henlé

Christian Henlé is a member of the Audio Visual Committee of the French Diving and Sub aquatic Activities Federation in Nice (FFESSM) and is a keen diver with a large collection of images of marine species and habitats mainly from around southern France.

Contact:
Christian Henlé
Email: c-henle@9online.fr

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Jacqueline Hill

Image redrawn by Jacqueline Hill from:

Sars, G.O.,  1890. Crustacea of Norway.  Volume 1, Amphipoda.  Christiania: ALB. Cammermayers Forlag.

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Dr Hilmar Hinz

Hilmar Hinz graduated in Marine Biology from Newcastle in 1994, undertook a Masters Degree in Biology at the University of Oldenburg (Germany) and worked for the Senckenberg Institute (Wilhelmshaven, Germany). In 2001 he joined the Coastal Resource Ecology and Management group lead by Dr. M.J. Kaiser in Bangor (Wales) at the School of Ocean Sciences. In 2005 he completed his part-time PhD on the habitat use of flatfishes. Currently he is funded by the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) and is investigating the environmental context of aggregate extraction in the English Channel.

Contact:
Dr Hilmar Hinz
E-mail: hlhi@mba.ac.uk

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Dr Keith Hiscock

Dr Keith Hiscock has a large collection of images of marine species and habitats, landscapes, activities and impacts mainly from around Britain.

Contact:
Keith Hiscock
E-mail: keith.hiscock@lineone.net

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Dr Sebastian P. Holmes

Dr Sebastian Holmes is a marine biologist who currently works at the Port Erin Marine Laboratory. His research interests include population genetics, intertidal ecology, invertebrate ecophysiology and supply side ecology.

Contact:
Dr Sebastian Holmes
Email: s.p.holmes@liverpool.ac.uk

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Davy Holt

Davy Holt is a recreational angler actively involved with the Glasgow Kelvingrove Museum's Common Skate Tagging Programme and also with the Common Skate Biodiversity Action Plan.

Contact:
Davy Holt
Email: davy@catchalot.co.uk
Web site : www.catchalot.co.uk (preferred contact address).

Dr Rohan Holt

Rohan Holt works for the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) and in his spare time Marine Wildlife Surveys (MWS).  MWS is a small company specialising in underwater and marine biological photography, videography, species identification and Seasearch courses and benthic surveys.

Contact:
Rohan holt,
Tan Hwfa,
Llanllechid,
Bangor,
North Wales, LL57 3LA.
Email: r.holt@ccw.gov.uk

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Charles Hood

Charles Hood is a professional underwater photographer and journalist. He currently is contracted to DIVE magazine in the UK. He has over 12,000 UW images available for publication.

Contact:
Charles Hood
Tel. 0771 262 2440
Email: charleshood@mac.com
Web site: www.charleshood.com

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Tammy Horton

Dr Tammy Horton is undertaking a BP-funded fellowship on deep-sea amphipods at the Southampton Oceanographic Centre. She does not normally offer picture agency agreements.

Contact:
Dr Tammy Horton,
BP Fellow UK,
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
George Deacon Division
Waterfront Campus, European Way
Southampton SO143ZH

Tel: (02380) 596352
Fax: (02380) 596247
Email: txh@noc.soton.ac.uk

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Martin Isaeus

Martin Isaeus is a plant ecologist working in the Deptartment of Botany, Stockholm University (www.su.se).

Contact:
Martin Isaeus
Norwegian Institute of Water Research NIVA,
Brekkeveien 19,
Postboks 173 Kjelsaas,
0411 Oslo,
Norway

Tel: (+47) 22 18 51 77
Fax: (+47) 22 18 52 00
Email: martin.isaeus@niva.no

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Angus Jackson

Dr Angus Jackson is a postdoctoral marine ecologist working at the Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal and Cities at the University of Sydney.

Contact:
Dr Angus Jackson,
EICC,
University of Sydney,
NSW 2006,
Australia.
Email: ajackson@eicc.bio.usyd.edu.au

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Norman Jackson

Norman Jackson is a yachtsman and amateur naturalist. He has a collection of images, primarily of the marine life you see out at sea from the surface around the north west of Scotland.

Contact:
Please email the MarLIN (marlin@mba.ac.uk) team directly if you wish to use any of Norman Jackson images we have online.

Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)

The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) is the UK Governments national and international wildlife advisor. JNCC holds a large collection of seabed marine species, habitat and location images mainly from surveys undertaken by the Marine Nature Conservation Review. JNCC is not a picture agency but should be contacted if you wish to use commercially any of the images provided by JNCC and included on the MarLIN Web site.

Contact:
Communications Team,
Joint Nature Conservation Committee,
Monkstone House,
Peterborough, PE1 1JY, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1733 562626
Fax: +44 (0)1733 555948
E-mail: vicker_c@jncc.gov.uk
Web site: www.jncc.gov.uk

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Dick Jones

Image reproduced with the authors permission from:

Legg, G. & Jones, R. E., 1988. Pseudoscorpions. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) (ed. D.M. Kermack & R.S.K. Barnes), The Linnean Society of London. Avon: The Bath Press. [Synopses of the British Fauna No. 40.]

Dick Jones has a large collection of images of creepy crawlies and other natural history objects

Contact:
RE Jones,
14, Post Office Road,
Dersingham,
King's Lynne,
Norfolk, PE31 6HP
E-mail: rej@globalnet.co.uk

Gerald Legg is the natural historian at the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton, natural history photographer and author of childrens' books.

Contact:
20 Manor Gardens,
Hurstpierpoint,
Hassocks,
West Sussex, BN6 9UG
E-mail: Gerald@chelifer.com
Web site: Pseudoscorpion in Britain www.chelifer.com/pseudos

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Robert Keen

Robert J. Keen is a keen diver who enjoys observing, photographing and cataloging as
much marine life as he can from around the world. He is passionate about
stopping the degradation of the Oceans particularly as regards the Shark populations.

Contact:
Robert J. Keen
Marysia,
2 Dellfield Close,
Watford,
Herts. WD17 4LB
E-mail: robkeen@tiscali.co.uk

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John Kelly

John Kelly is a Research Associate for Quercus, Queens University of Belfast.

Contact:
John Kelly,
Quercus Research Associate,
Queen's University of Belfast,
Medical Biology Centre,
97 Lisburn Road,
Belfast BT9 7BL
Northern Ireland .
Tel: +44 (0) 2890 972 259
Website: www.quercus.ac.uk
E mail: j.jelly@qub.ac.uk

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Hans Kleef and Peter Tydeman
National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management / RIKZ

Hans Kleef and Peter Tydeman are marine ecological technicians at the National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management/RIKZ, The Netherlands.

Contact:
National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management
P.O.box 207 9750
AE Haren
The Netherlands
T: (0)31 50 533 13 78
Email: hkleef@wanadoo.nl and ptydeman@planet.nl

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Dr Stefan Kraan

Dr Stefan Kraan is a research scientist working at the Martin Ryan Marine Science Institute who holds images of some seaweed species but does not normally offer picture agency agreements.

Contact:
Irish Seaweed Industry Organisation
Martin Ryan Marine Science Institute
National University of Ireland, Galway
Galway Ireland
Fax: 353-91-525005
Email: stefan.kraan@nuigalway.ie

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Dr Inken Kruse

Dr Inken Kruse is a marine research scientist, mainly on population genetics issues of marine invertebrates, who carried out her PhD on Scoloplos armiger.

Contact:
Dr Inken Kruse,
Email: inkenkruse@web.de

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Jack Laws

Jack Laws has been diving for over 50 years and has underwater and landscape images of marine reserves in Scotland, Bonaire and Sulawesi.

Contact:
Jack Laws
Commongate,
High street,
Coldingham,
Eyemouth,
TD14 5NL
E-mail: jack@coldingham111.freeserve.co.uk

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Dan Lear

Dan Lear is the Information Systems Co-ordinator with the MarLIN team.

Contact:
MarLIN (as below)
Email: dble@mba.ac.uk

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Richard Lord

Richard Lord is a professional marine photographer with a large collection of images of marine life from around Guernsey and commercial fish and shellfish from around the world.

Contact:
Richard Lord
Guernsey, GY1 1BQ,
Great Britain.
Fax: +44 (0)1481 700699
Email: fishinfo@guernsey.net
Web site: www.sealordphotography.net

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Dr Sutherland Maciver

Dr Sutherland Maciver is a senior lecturer of biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh and keen scuba diver.

Contact:
Email: smaciver@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

Dr Christine Maggs

Dr Christine Maggs is a phycologist studying all aspects of marine red and green algae, and specializing in taxonomy of red algae. She is co-author of the Ceramiales (red algae) flora of the British Isles, published by the Natural History Museum.

Contact:
School of Biology & Biochemistry
Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast BT9 7BL
Northern Ireland .
Tel: 02890 972265

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Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA)

The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) was founded in 1884 and its laboratory on Citadel Hill, Plymouth opened in 1888. The aims of the Association are to promote scientific research into all aspects of life in the sea and to inform the public of the knowledge gained. The MBA is an independent research association supported by grant in aid from NERC and a Registered Charity. The MBA has a small collection of images belonging specifically to the Association including historical material. The MBA is not a picture agency but should be contacted if you wish to use commercially any of the images provided by the MBA and included on the MarLIN Web site.

Contact:
Directors Secretary
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom,
The Laboratory,
Citadel Hill,
Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1752 633336
Fax: +44 (0)1752 633102
Email: sec@mba.ac.uk
Web site: www.mba.ac.uk

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Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change - MarClim

MarClim is a new major four-year multi-partner British and Irish project led by the Marine Biological Association in collaboration with Plymouth Marine Laboratory, The Scottish Association for Marine Science, The University of Plymouth and University College Cork. The aim of MarClim is to assess and forecast the influence of climatic change on marine biodiversity in Britain and Ireland using long term and current data on intertidal rocky shore indicator species. MarClim is currently the only government-funded project addressing climate change in the marine environment in the UK.

Contact:
The MarClim Programme
The Marine Biological Association of the UK
The Laboratory, Citadel Hill
Plymouth, PL1 2PB
Devon, UK
Tel: +44(0)1752 633287
Fax: +44(0)1752 633102
Email: marclim@mba.ac.uk

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Marine Conservation Society

Calum Duncan has a collection of MCS copyright digital and scanned images depicting subtidal marine life, coastal scenes and activities that he has taken throughout Scotland. Please contact him at the MCS Scotland Offices for further information.

Contact:
Calum Duncan
Scottish Conservation Manager
Marine Conservation Scoeity
3 Coaates Place,
Edinburgh,
EH3 7AA
Tel: +44 (0) 131 226 6360
Fax: +44 (0) 131 226 2391

Website: www.mcsuk.org

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Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland (MarLIN)

MarLIN is an initiative of the Marine Biological Association of the UK in collaboration with major holders and users of marine biological data.
MarLIN will provide the most comprehensive and easily used source of information about marine habitats, communities and species around Britain and Ireland.

Contact:
MarLIN
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom,
The Laboratory,
Citadel Hill,
Plymouth, PL1 2PB,
UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1752 633336
Fax: +44 (0)1752 633102
Email: marlin@mba.ac.uk
Web site: www.marlin.ac.uk

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Mike Markey

Mike is a Poole-based diver and dive charter boat skipper with an interest in underwater photography.

Contact:
Mike Markey,
20 Warwick Road,
Totton,
Southampton, SO40 3QP.
Tel: 07732 271017
Email: mike.markey@virgin.net

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Andrew Marriott

Andrew Marriott is a marine biologist, keen marine conservationist and wildlife photographer.

Contact:
Andrew Marriott
14 Drayton Street,
Walsall.
West Midlands.
WS2 9QB

E-mail: andrew.lewis.marriott@googlemail.com

Charlotte Marshall

Charlotte Marshall is a member of the MarLIN team and an amateur photographer with an interest in the conservation of marine ecosystems and fisheries.

Contact
MarLIN (as above)
Email: cema@mba.ac.uk

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Ruth Memmott

Ruth is a marine biologist studying for a masters at the University of Plymouth.

Contact:
ruth.memmott@postgrad.plymouth.ac.uk

Jon Moore

Jon Moore, freelance marine environmental consultant, has a large collection of slides and a rapidly increasing collection of digital photos of subtidal, intertidal and coastal species, habitats, resources and impacts from UK and overseas.

Contact:
Jon Moore,
Tí Cara, Point Lane,
Cosheston, Pembroke Dock,
Pembrokeshire, SA72 4UN,
Wales, UK.
Email: jon@ticara.co.uk

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Natural History Museum (NHM)

The Natural History Museum (NHM) promotes the discovery, understanding, enjoyment, and responsible use of the natural world.

Contact:
Paul Clark,
Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road,
London SW7 5BD, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5000
Web site: http://www.nhm.ac.uk

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National Museum Wales (NMW) holds internationally renowned collections covering the art, archaeology, botany, geology, industry, social history and zoology of Wales. Through its collections, they explore Wales and its place in the world.

Anyone wishing to use their images MUST apply to the museum in writing for permision.

Contact:
Kay Kays
Image Licensing Officer,
National Museum Wales,
Cathays Park,
Cardiff, CF10 3NP.
Tel: (029) 2039 7951
Web: http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/home/

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Paul Naylor

Paul Naylor is a marine biologist, underwater photographer and author of the book 'Great British Marine Animals'. He has a large collection of marine animal images from around the British Isles.

Contact:
Tel: 07041 - 351307

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Paul Newland

Paul Newland is a widely traveled diver for many years and currently a member of the
Totnes Subaqua Club with a keen interest in marine life.

Contact:
Paul Newland
Tel: 01364 642287
E mail: newland@rattery.freeserve.co.uk

Tim Nicholson

Tim Nicholson is an amateur diver and underwater photographer. He has a collection of images taken in several locations around the world all on his trusty Nikonos V. Most of his British images were taken around the Isle of Man, where he currently lives and works. He is a contributor to photo galleries at www.scubatravel.co.uk

Contact:
42 Garth Avenue,
Surby,
Isle of Man, IM9 6QZ
Tel: 01624 836067
Email: tim@pdms.com

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Thom Nickell

Thom Nickell is a benthic ecologist based at the Scottish Association for Marine Science.

Contact:
Thom Nickell
Scottish Association for Marine Science
Oban,
Argyll, PA37 1QA
Tel: 01631 559261
Email: Thom.Nickell@sams.ac.uk

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Helmut Nisters

Helmut Nisters is curator of the shell collection of the Natural History Department of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck.

Contact:
Helmut Nisters,
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46,
A-6020 Innsbruck,
Austria.

Email: helmut.helix.nisters@aon.at
Web site: www.netwing.at/nisters

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Peter O'Donnell

Peter O'Donnell works for the Loughs Agency and is involved in its environmental education programme. He has a collection of images of species native to the UK.

Contact:
Peter O'Donnell,
22 Victoria Road,
Londonderry,
BT47 2AB

Tel: (028) 71342100
Email: peter.odonnell@loughs-agency.org
Web: www.loughs-agency.org

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Judith Oakley

Judith Oakley, MSc, BSc specialises in macro intertidal rocky shore photography. She contributes many images to marine conservation charities and has had work published by the Countryside Council for Wales, Defra, Marine Biological Association and BBC Wildlife magazine. She has a keen interest in seahorses and pipefish, marine intertidal species, sea slugs, marine mammals and marine conservation issues in general.

Contact:
Email: jomoakley@btinternet.com
Web: www.oakleynaturalimages.com

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Paul Parsons

Paul Parsons is a marine photographer with a large collection of images. Visit www.aquapix.com to view.

Contact:
Paul Parsons,
www.aquapix.com

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Dave Peake

Dave Peake is an underwater photographer who has been diving for over 30 years. He specialises in photography in British waters.

Contact:
Email: dave.peake@homecall.co.uk
Web site: http://www.dpup.demon.co.uk

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Bernard Picton

Bernard Picton has a large collection of colour slides of marine species and habitats from around Britain, Ireland, the Mediterranean, Caribbean and Indo-Pacific with a special interest in nudibranch molluscs and sessile invertebrates.

Contact:
Web site: http://www.pictonb.freeserve.co.uk/

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Anne Marie Power

Anne Marie Power has collected digital images of intertidal and shallow subtidal organisms on Irish coasts while conducting surveys for the MarClim project.

Contact:
Anne Marie Power
Department of Zoology,
Room 226,
Martin Ryan Institute,
National University of Ireland,
Galway,
Ireland

Tel: 353 91 493015  
Fax: 353 91 525005
Email: annemarie.power@nuigalway.ie

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Dr Ian Powell

Dr Ian Powell is a research scientist working at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. He has a large collection of images relating to ecology, conservation and landscapes around the world.

Contact:
Dr Ian Powell,
Natural and Applied Sciences,
Edge Hill,
St Helen's Road, Ormskirk,
Lancashire, L39 4QP.
Email: powelli@edgehill.ac.uk
Website: www.edgehill.ac.uk

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John Rafferty

John is a leading marine and landscape photographer and is also a photo/journalist for the Irish and UK fishing industry. A selection of his images can be viewed on his website.

Contact:
John Rafferty,
Burtonport,
Letterkenny,
Co. Donegal,
Ireland.

E-mail: jrafferty@eircom.net
Website: www.johnraffertyphotography.com

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Ivor Rees

Ivor Rees has a collection of seabed habitat photos from various parts of the Irish Sea taken with cameras mounted on seabed sledges.

Contact:
Ivor Rees,
c/o School of Ocean Sciences,
University of Wales, Bangor
Menai Bridge
Anglesey,  GwyneddLL59 5EU
Cymru
Tel: 01248 382846

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Dr J. Murray Roberts

Dr J. Murray Roberts is a marine biologist at the Scottish Association for Marine Science working on the biology and ecology of cold-water corals.

Contact:
SAMS,
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory,
Oban, Aryll, PA37 1QA.
Email: murray.roberts@sams.ac.uk
Web: www.sams.ac.uk

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John Rundle

John Rundle has a collection of images of marine species, including large numbers of cuttlefish images.

Contact:
John Rundle,
Marine Biological Association of the UK,
Tel: 01752 633350
Email: jru@mba.ac.uk

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Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)

Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory (DML) near Oban, Argyll is the home of the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS). SAMS carries out research in coastal and offshore environments, with a particular emphasis on biology, sediment geochemistry and technology. Increasingly, results are being applied to environmental management/impact assessment. The University of the Highlands and Islands Degree Course in Marine Science is delivered from Dunstaffnage - see http://www.uhi.ac.uk

For further information.

Contact:
SAMS,
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory,
Oban,
Argyll, PA37 1QA,
Scotland.
Tel. 01631 559000
Fax. 01631 559001
E-mail: info@sams.ac.uk
Web: http://www.sams.ac.uk

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Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is a government agency that works to conserve and enhance Scotland's natural heritage of wildlife, habitats and lanscapes. SNH aims to help people enjoy Scotlands natural heritage responsibly, understand it more fully and use it wisely so that it can be sustained for future generations.

Contact:
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH),
Maritime Group,
2/5 Anderson Place,
Edinburgh, EH6 5NP.
Tel: 0131 446 2400
Fax: 0131 446 2405
Web: http://www.snh.org.uk

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Sue Scott

Sue Scott is a professional marine life photographer and biologist with a large collection of images especially from Scottish marine and freshwater habitats.

Contact:
Sue Scott
Strome House
North Strome
Loch Carron
Ross-shire, IV54 8YJ, UK
Fax: +44 (0)1520 722 902
E-mail suescott153@btinternet.com

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www.seasurvey.co.uk

www.seasurvey.co.uk has a large collection of images of UK marine fauna including an extensive collection of photo micrographs as well as images of marine surveys, laboratory work and activities associated with marine developments. They also hold a large amount of quantitative and qualitative data collected on surveys carried out all around the UK and spanning the last 30years.

Contact:
Bryony Pearce
Contracts Director,
Marine Ecological Surveys Limited,
24a Monmouth Place,
Bath, BA1 2AY
E-mail: bryony@seasurvey.co.uk

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Dennis R. Seaward

Dennis R. Seaward holds images of saline lagoon and mollusc species but does not normally offer picture agency arrangements.  MarLIN should be contacted if you wish to use commercially any of the images provided by Dennis Seaward and included on the MarLIN Web site.

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Guido Selling

Guido Selling is an underwater photographer with an interest in marine biology.

Contact:
Guido M.A. Selling,
De Nesse 13,
2291 XN Wateringen,
The Netherlands.
Email: gslg@kabelfoon.nl

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SERPENT Project

The "Scientific and Environmental ROV Partnership using Existing iNdustrial Technology" (SERPENT) project aims to make cutting-edge ROV technology and data more accessible to the world's science community, sharing knowledge and progressing deep-sea research. The programme will interact with science and conservation groups globally and transparently communicate our project to the public to increase the awareness of our fragile marine resources.

SERPENT is a global project hosted by the DEEPSEAS group, in the George Deacon Division (GDD) of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) with a network of UK and global partners.

Contact
Maria Baker,
ChEss Coordinator/DC-UK Research Fellow
DEEPSEAS Group, George Deacon Division,
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Empress Dock,
Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)23 80596352
Fax: + 44 (0)23 80596247
Email: mb11@noc.soton.ac.