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Edward Dixon

33 Club Street
04-25 Emerald Garden
Singapore 069415

Phone (m): +65 9664 4102
Email: efdixon@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/efdixon

Avid diver and photographer, diving since 1990 and photographing since mid-70s. U/W macro photography is my passion, nudibranches are my favorite subject. Nikon D70, Ikelite housing and dual substrobes, prefer 60MM macro lens.

Above water, I'm managing director of a PR firm in Singapore, responsible for southeast Asia. Travel regularly for work and play, and have been focusing on Indonesia diving for the last year-plus.

Last modified: 30-Apr-2007

Leif Abrell

Department of Chemistry
Columbia University
Havemeyer Hall MC 3146
3000 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Phone (w): 212 854 5356
Fax: 212 932 8273
Email: lagartica@hotmail.com
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/~la202/CV/LA2000.htm

I am a bioorganic natural products chemist doing post doctoral work in the Chemistry Dept. at Columbia University in NYC. I am interested in marine invertebrate natural products, including the chemistry of opisthobranchs.

Last modified: 12-Jan-2006

Mary Jane Adams

Arcadia,
California,
USA

Email: divepng@yahoo.com

I began diving in 1975 and immediately became addicted. Underwater photography soon became an important part of my diving and I now have a large collection of marine life images. I enjoy studying the scientific aspects of the fish and invertebrates in my photo collection. I go on 3-4 liveaboard dive trips a year to various locations in the the tropical Indo-Pacific. In 1999 I retired from my anesthesiology practice and now have more time for diving and photographing nudibranchs and other beautiful marine creatures

In 2001 I received the appointment of Museum Associate in Malacology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles where I work under the direction of Dr. Angel Valdes.

Last modified: 15-Jul-2005

Peter Ajtai

Email: ajtai@slugophile.org
URL: http://www.slugophile.org

I am currently in Costa Rica working with the University of Costa Rica, but I'm moving back to San Diego, California in July.

Alike

Phuket
Thailand

Phone (m): +66 (0) 89 86 70 424
Email: alikedive@hotmail.com

Dive Instructor
working around Phuket since 8 years
big Photo collection from critters, esp. Nudibranch
"Nudi Fanatic"

Last modified: 24-Apr-2007

Ampou, E.E.

IMRO (Institute for Marine Research and Observation) - SEACORM (Southeast Asia Center for Ocean Research and Monitoring)
Br. Dangin Berawah, Perancak, Negara Kab. Jembrana - Bali. Indonesia

Phone (h): +62 365 44291
Phone (w): +62 365 44268
Phone (m): +6281340770560
Fax: +62 365 44278
Email: elvan_ampou76@yahoo.com

Full Name : Eghbert Elvan Ampou
Education
* Engineer: Faculty of Fisheries & Marine Science, University of Sam Ratulangi Manado, North Sulawesi. April 8th 2000
* Master of Science: Master in Knowledge and Management of the
Biodivercity of Indonesian Coral Reefs, Politechnical University of The Marche -Ancona, Italy, September 27th 2005

Research Activities:
1. Contented and Kind of Pigment to the Red Algae Halymenia durvillaei - Bory de Saint Vincent, 2000 (Main Researcher)
2. Phaeophyceae (Brown Algae) Pigment, 1998
3. Similarity Distribution of Nudibranch (Chromodorididae, Phyllididae, Facelinidae) in Siladen Island North Sulawesi - Indonesia, 2005 (Main Researcher)
4. Telaah Hukum-Hukum fisika Pada Aktifitas Penyelaman / Physics Law in Diving Activity (SCUBA DIVING), 2005
5. Seagrass Species Richness at Bunaken Island (Papa Boa) North Sulawesi - Indonesia, 2006

Last modified: 29-Oct-2007

Jim Anderson

Baird Hall,
High Street
Linlithgow,
West Lothian EH49 7ES
Scotland

Email: jander4454@gmail.com
URL: http://www.scottishnudibranchs.co.uk/

I am a keen diver and underwater photographer on weekends and holidays and an architect during the week. I developed a keen interest in nudibranchs and other slugs following my introduction to diving in 1987. I dive all the year round and have two websites:
Scottish Nudibranchs.
Sulawesi Sea Slugs

Last modified: 02-Aug-2005

Orso Angulo

Ligui 3
Col. Los Olivos
C.P.23040
La Paz, B.C.S
Mexico

Phone (h): +(612)12-50952
Phone (m): 044-612-1319298
Email: oangulo@uabcs.mx

I been working with the taxonomy and ecology of opisthobranch molluks around the La Paz area, recently I begun to study the pelagic opisthobranchs (thecosmata and gymnosomata) from the Gulf of California, this new interest is related to my Phd work that i'm currently working.

Last modified: 04-Dec-2006

Nils Anthes

Dep. of Evolutionary Biology
University Muenster
Germany

Email: anthes@uni-muenster.de

I am a PhD student in Evolutionary Biology. My main interest is in mating conflicts in hermaphrodites, using hermaphroditic sea slugs as a model system.

Kathleen Archer

Department of Biology
Trinity College
Hartford, CT 06106
USA

Email: kathleen.archer@trincoll.edu

I am a plant cell biologist who has studied the chloroplasts of higher plants for many years. I've become very interested in the sacoglossans which retain algal chloroplasts, and am planning some research projects to examine how the slugs cooperate to provide the chloroplasts with the environment they need. I'm also planning to examine some of the algal species used by such slugs, to see if I can learn anything about what makes them so robust. Genera of interest include Vaucheria, Codium, Bryopsis, and Caulerpa. I am interested in talking with anyone who has first hand experience keeping sacoglossan species (especially Elysia spp.) in captivity, and with anyone who grows Vaucheria, Codium, Bryopsis or Caulerpa in their aquarium.

Néstor E. Ardila E.

Laboratorio de Biología Molecular Marina (J-309), ext. 3194
Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas
Universidad de Los Andes
http://www.uniandes.edu.co

Phone (h): 57-1-3406660
Phone (w): 57-1-3394949, ext. 3194
Email: ne.ardila23@uniandes.edu.co
URL: http://botanica.uniandes.edu.co/integrantes/ne.ardila23.htm

I am Marine Biologist from Colombia, and I've been working the last seven years with mollusks from the upper slope and continental shelf from the Caribbean Colombian with emphasis in the analysis of biodiversity and biogeography of epifaunal mollusks associations and in the taxonomy of some gastropods collected in this expeditions, specially with nudibranchs of the genus Armina and deep-sea limpets (Cocculiniformia).

Nowadays, I am working in a checklist of Opistobranchs from Colombia and a systematic revision of the genus Armina in America (Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific).

Last modified: 13-Mar-2006

Ross and Diane Armstrong

60 Motel Road
R D 3
Whangarei 0121
New Zealand

Phone (h): 0064-9434-3290
Email: ross@oceanwildlife.com
URL: http://www.oceanwildlife.com

We are keen underwater photographers based at Tutukaka in New Zealand. Diving and photography has led to an interest in the inhabitants of the marine environment and vice-versa. Our favourite dive site are the Poor Knights Islands.

Leanne & David Atkinson

P.O. BOX 28
CESSNOCK NSW 2325
AUSTRALIA

Phone (h): 02 49902971
Phone (w): 02 49905955
Email: atk@hunterlink.net.au

We have both been diving for over 20 years and are keen amatuer underwater photographers. We enjoy learning about the creatures we see. Nudibranchs are a particular favourite and we greatly appreciate the knowledge that is shared on the Seaslug Forum. We hope our photos and interested amatuer's observations of nudibranch behaviour can help build knowledge. Thankyou Bill Rudman for the time that you put into this project.

Our local diving is in Port Stephens NSW Australia. We travel overseas and around Australia to dive when time and money allow.

Last modified: 03-Aug-2005

Wendy Atkinson

5755 NE 56th St
Seattle, WA 98105,
USA

Phone (h): 1-206-801-2963
Phone (m): 1-206-769-1443
Email: wendyatkinson@comcast.net
URL: http://www.wendyatkinson.net

I am a physician, living in Seattle, working only part-time in order to be able to join my friends traveling to magnificent dive sites around the world. I made the switch to digital about 2 years ago shooting an Ikelite housed Fuji S2 with Ikelite strobes. I think this website represents the best that the internet has to offer bringing together people from different areas of the globe with images of their underwater passion to discuss and share their thoughts.
Wendy Atkinson

Last modified: 01-Feb-2007

Mark Atwell

Email: mark dot atwell at-or-near gmail dot com
URL: http://www.damphotos.com

Using a Nikon D200 with Fantasea housed SB800.

Mainly interested in macro. So I use the 60mm and 105mm macro lenses.

Last trip (as of June '07), Lembeh Straits (Lembeh Resort) and Minahasa/Bunaken - April '07 where we met Ed Dixon - also a participant.

Last modified: 16-Jun-2007

Orhan Aytur

Bilkent University
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Ankara, Turkey

Phone (w): +90-312-290-2095
Email: aytur@ee.bilkent.edu.tr
URL: http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~aytur/

Adrian Baddeley

School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Western Australia
Nedlands WA 6009
Australia

Phone (h): 08 6488 3375
Phone (m): 0410 447 821
Fax: 08 6488 1028
Email: adrian@maths.uwa.edu.au
URL: http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~adrian

Professor of Statistics at the University of Western Australia.

Amateur underwater photographer.

Last modified: 17-Jan-2006

Krystian Bala

ul. Solskiego 20
59-225 Chojnow
Dolnoslaskie
Poland

Email: amokdiver@gmail.com

I'm a freelance writer originally from Poland, with one controversial novel "AMOK" published in 2003 and the second one upcoming.
Passionate above and underwater photographer, with publications in international diving magazines and online at www.scubainkorea.com. Also a freelance contributor to Polish Scuba Diving Magazine "Nurkowanie" where I write about "underwater critters".
I have been "on the road" for the last few years. I'm also a scuba diving instructor and passionate UW photographer frequently diving throughout Asia (Philippines, Palau, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand). I have been working on a book about "diving with little strangers".

Last modified: 14-Jan-2006

Manuel Ballesteros

Dept. Biologia Animal
Fac. Biologia
Univ Barcelona
Avda. Diagonal, 645
08028 Barcelona, Spain

Phone (h): +34-93-6331578
Phone (w): +34-93-4021435
Phone (m): 699473634
Fax: +34-93-4035740
Email: mballesteros@ub.edu

Working on opisthobranchs from western Mediterranean

Last modified: 31-Aug-2005

Ian Banks

PO Box 2057
Surfers Paradise
QLD 4217
Australia

Phone (m): 0415 666 457
Email: ianbanks@bigpond.com
URL: http://www.divingthegoldcoast.com.au

Commenced scuba diving in 1971, heavily influenced by my biology teacher Ted Bramblby, who is still educating anyone willing to listen. In 1972 my first camera a NikonosII started the ball rolling for my photographic passion under the sea, although now I'm more into video.
Currently involved in, hopefully, preventing a Shipping Terminal being constructed on the best dive site in any Australian city - the Gold Coast Seaway.

Last modified: 17-May-2006

Dani Barchana

62 Kibbutz Galuyot st.
Herzliya 46247
Israel

Phone (h): +972-9-9556124
Phone (m): +972-50-8277-228
Email: dani.barchana@gmail.com

Dr. Dan Barchana, DVM
Veterinarian
Consultant for "The Dolphin Reef, Eilat" and "Ramot, Tel Aviv University".
Diving both Mediterranean and Red Sea but prefers the Mediterranean.

Last modified: 28-May-2007

Jim Bartlett

Email: jim_bartlett@pinnicle.com

I'm a PADI IDC Staff Instructor located in Denver Colorado (USA), and enjoy underwater photography, especially getting macro shots -- including Nudibranchs. By day I run a management consulting company in the US, but that's just how I finance my real passion, diving and shooting photos U/W.

Anna L. Bass

Department of Biology, SCA 110
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue
Tampa, Florida 33620
USA

Email: abass@helios.acomp.usf.edu
URL: http://helios.acomp.usf.edu/~abass/ALBwork.html

I'm interested in the sacoglossan opisthobranchs, in particular their taxonomy and evolutionary relationships.

Clinton Bauder

10110 Parkwood Dr #3
Cupertino, CA, 95014
USA

Email: gecko1@apple.com
URL: http://www.metridium.com

I am an enthusiastic amateur diver and filmmaker who rarely goes more than a week without getting wet. I've been diving since 1997 and over 1200 dives later I still see something new on almost every dive. Most of my diving is in the greater Monterey area of California but I try to make a point of traveling to more exotic locales at least once a year.

Last modified: 21-Jul-2005

Mikel A. Becerro

Center for Advanced Studies (CEAB)
Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC)
Acc Cala S Francesc 14
17300 Blanes (Girona)
Spain

Phone (w): + 34 972 336 101
Fax: + 34 972 337 806
Email: mikel@ceab.csic.es
URL: http://www.ceab.csic.es/~mikel/

I'm a benthic ecologist with interest in biotic interactions and their role in the organization and functioning of ecosystems. Currently working in Spain but with research experience in the Pacific, Caribbean, temperate Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Last modified: 24-Aug-2006

David W. Behrens

35 Versailles Court
Danville, CA. 94506
USA

Phone (h): 925-327-7750
Fax: 925-736-8982
Email: dave@seachallengers.com
URL: http://www.seachallengers.com

Author of Pacific Coast Nudibranchs.
Co-author of Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific.
Proprietor of the retail sales side of Sea Challengers Natural History Books,
Etc.

Danny Van Belle

Broekstraat 24, 9420 Erpe-Mere

Phone (h): 0032 53 848770
Phone (w): 0032 497 624577
Phone (m): 0032 497 624577
Email: danny.van.belle@skynet.be
URL: http://www.dannyvanbelle.com

After working as PADI instructor in Thailand for almost 8 years I changed direction to work now as freelance (professional) Marine Wildlife Videographer. All started with the success of a few small documentaries. 'The most beautiful camouflages' in 2003 but most important 'The world of gastropods' which was awarded at many international UW filmfestivals worldwide. Including 'The golden fin' at the World festival for UW images in Antibes, France 2004, the most important festival worldwide. My interest goes mainly to filming the smallest creatures in the underwater world including of course all the magnificent nudibranchs. The most interesting nudi I found so far being Hypselodoris zebrina.

Last modified: 01-Feb-2007

Kirsten Benkendorff

107 Morrison Ave,
Wombarra, NSW, 2515,
Australia.

Email: kb06@uow.edu.au

I am a PhD student (of Biology and Chemistry) from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, working on biologically active compounds from the egg masses of marine molluscs. I have conducted extensive surveys of the distribution and abundance of molluscs in the Wollongong region with particular attention to breeding sites. I have discovered that it is impossible to work on molluscs without falling in love with Opisthobranchs!

Hans Bertsch

Dr. Hans Bertsch
MARVIDA, Senior Marine Biologist
192 Imperial Beach Blvd. # A
Imperial Beach, CA 91932 USA

Phone (w): (619) 423-8900. In Mexico: (52) 664 683-3512
Email: hansmarvida@sbcglobal.net
URL: http://hansmarvida.com

Last modified: 25-May-2006

Luis Ernesto Arruda Bezerra

Rua Antônio Augusto, 2561, apto 104
Fortaleza - Ceará
Brazil

Email: luis_ernesto2@yahoo.com.br

I am a university student and have been studying aplysia for 3 years. I am study the seasonal cycle of A. dactylomela in two beaches of the northeast of Brazil, and the relation between purple ink and seaweeds.

Sara Black

Texas A&M University-Galveston
Galveston, TX
USA

Email: seahare15@yahoo.com

Graduate student at Texas A&M University-Galveston. I am obsessed with all things Aplysia and am currently working on inter-species breeding between two tropical species.

Andy den Boer

Baron de Royedreef, 8
B 1980 Eppegem
Belgium

Phone (h): 0032 485 61.30.85
Email: Andy.denboer@pandora.be

I run a small construction firm in Belgium and am a keen diver since 2000. Love diving in the Oosterschelde (Nl), Bretagne (Fr) and Canary Islands (E). Will go diving in Norway, scotland and Ireland next years. Specialy interested in nudibranches and photography. Any advice welcome.

Robert F. Bolland

University of Maryland/ASIA
PSC 80, Box 14149,
APO AP 96367
OKINAWA

Email: bollandr@rapid-link.ne.jp
URL: http://rfbolland.com/okislugs

A longtime nudibranch enthusiast. Visit Bob's OKINAWA SLUG SITE.

Ken Bondy

6520 Platt Avenue #651
West Hills, CA 91307
California, USA

Phone (h): 818-883-7853
Phone (w): 818-883-7853
Phone (m): 818-426-3523
Fax: 818-999-4262
Email: ken@kenbondy.com
URL: http://www.kenbondy.com

Diving and taking pictures underwater for 30+ years.

Last modified: 29-Oct-2007

Alain Bonnet

24 cité Saint Chaumont
75019 Paris
France

Phone (h): 0033173747741
Phone (m): 0033699824989
Email: alain.lm24@neuf.fr

Fascinated fundiver about every things underwater in general and about sea slugs and flatworms in particular.
Diving since 1993.
Regards

Last modified: 13-Dec-2005

Jane Breidahl

Mornington Peninsula,
Victoria,
Australia.

Email: deepsea@alphalink.com.au

I am a secondary Maths teacher with no background at all in Biology! I have been diving for nine years and through a friend who is mad about nudibranchs have decided that I adore them too. Most of my diving is under piers close to home - Frankston, Mornington, Rye, Portsea, Portarlington, St Leonards and local shore dives such as Linley Point in Mornington [Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia]. I keep a very detailed dive log and like to sketch the nudibranchs as I find them. Through my ever increasing knowledge and my interest in all things marine, I've been able to develop and teach a unit of study in Marine Biology at my secondary school - Woodleigh School in Baxter Victoria. I belong to a small dive club - Aquatic Naturalists which meets monthly.

Gérard Breton

Curator
Natural History Museum
Le Havre,
France)

Email: Gerard.Breton@ville-lehavre.fr

I am not a specialist of sea-slugs, but rather a generalist. I am presently curator of the Natural History Museum in Le Havre, and I am interested in any topics in marine biology, evolution (I am primarily a palaeontologist of sea-stars ). In the matter of marine biology, my best (and more usual ) diving spots are Cerbère, at the mesiterranean frontier between France and Spain, and the dock of the harbour of Le Havre (English Channel, France).

Ole Johan Brett

Underaasveien 22, 3070 Sande, Norway

Phone (m): 004799212081
Email: ole.johan.brett@politiet.no

BUW-photographer with 800 dives with Nikon RS, collecting different tropical species.

Last modified: 20-Jul-2007

Gilianne Brodie

Institute of Applied Sciences
University of the South Pacific
P.O. Box 1168
Suva, Fiji

Phone (w): 679 3232876
Email: brodie_g@usp.ac.fj

I have been addicted to opisthobranchs since learning to dive in 1982. My interest in seaslugs, their classification and biology has without doubt shaped my career path. I am currently the coordinator of a taxonomic capacity building program in the Pacific Islands called PACINET. I am on leave without pay from my marine invertebrate lecturing position at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.

Last modified: 21-Feb-2006

Lisa Brown

St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.

Phone (m): 314-779-7408
Email: salty@saltyunderground.com
URL: http://www.saltyunderground.com

We have been saltwater aquarists for over 7 years. For the last few years we have grown and sold 'Berghia Verrucicornis' nudibranchs [now known as Aeolidiella stephanieae] to saltwater aquarists to solve their Aiptasia anemone problem. We welcome questions that aquarists might have about 'Berghia' and aiptasia anemone eradication.

Last modified: 08-Mar-2006

Greg Brown

Forge Cottage
125 Yarmouth Road
Thorpe-St-Andrew, Norwich
Norfolk NR30 3NG
U.K.

Phone (h): +44 (0)1603 439794
Phone (w): +44 (0)1493 850723
Email: gregory.brown4@ntlworld.com

Back in the last century!, I had the pleasure of working with Tom Thompson and Bernard Picton at Bristol University for several years trying to clarify the taxonomy of the UK nudibranchs and making full use of SCUBA to aid collecting.

I've recently digitised all the nudi slides taken whilst preparing the publications from this earlier period. Having run through several research grants, I was eventually forced to get a job outside of academia but ended up running an Oceanography Department for a marine environmental company with projects worldwide. Unfortunately, I couldn't get paid for collecting slugs but with more storms and sea levels ever rising, we've never been busier in surveying and modelling the probable effects.
I remain a keen diver and nudibranch photographer visiting the Caribbean whenever possible but always remain envious of the Pacific divers who contribute so much to the Forum.

Last modified: 07-Apr-2006

Dr David J. Brunckhorst

Division of Ecosystem Management, and
Director, Institute for Bioregional Resource Management
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351
AUSTRALIA

Email: dbrunckh@metz.une.edu.au

Systematics, phylogeny, biogeography and chemo-ecology of phyllidiid nudibranchs, and tropical marine benthic ecology. My marine interests include Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM); marine and coastal protected areas (MACPAs), and biosphere reserves, conservation in small island states; seascape ecology, marine environmental and resource policy, Integrated planning across coastal-marine interface (bioregional approaches).

Clay Bryce

Museum of Natural Science
Department of Aquatic Zoology (Molluscs)
Francis St.
Perth,
Western Australia, 6000

Phone (w): (08) 9 427-2746    Int: +61 8 9427-2746
Phone (m): 014 888 277    Int: +61 14 888-277
Fax: (08) 9427-2882    Int: +61 8 9427-2882
Email: brycec@museum.wa.gov.au

Senior Technical Officer
Department of Aquatic Zoology (Molluscs)

I have been actively documenting the opisthobranch fauna of Western Australia and surrounding waters for, well let's just say many, many years. The collection here at the museum is extensive with a good percentage of it cross registered with colour photographs. In 1993 Sea Slugs of Western Australia was published and another book is in the planning stages. Of late, I have gone off on a slight tangent recording, photographing and collecting the opisthobranch fauna of remote east Pacific islands.

Ingo Burghardt

Ruhr-University Bochum
Lehrstuhl fuer Spezielle Zoologie
Universitaetsstr. 150
D - 44780 Bochum
Germany

Phone (w): 0049-234-32-28857
Email: ingo.burghardt@rub.de

I'm doing a PhD on the evolution, biology and ecology of "solar powered " opisthobranchs, especially nudibranchs that have evolved a symbiosis with zooxanthellae.

Last modified: 11-Nov-2005

Alessandro Busetti

9 Windmill Court
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Phone (w): 0044 01912223064
Email: alessandrobusetti@gmail.com

I am a PhD student studying Marine Biotechnology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Dove Marine Lab), presently beginning a project on novel genetic approaches to study the potential that bacteria living on/in marine invertebrates can offer in regards to antibiotics production, antifouling. What better candidates than Nudibranchs?
I graduated at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2005 and have a Masters degree in Molecular Biology.
I love the Marine environment, and hope that humanity will learn to be less presumptuous and arrogant with this environment recognizing its vital role for our planet.

Last modified: 15-Dec-2007

Gavin Bushell

Manchester,
England

Email: grbushell@mail.com

Lawyer by profession in Manchester, England - but it helps pay for the diving which I do whenever I can, anywhere where there might be nudibranchs.

Gonçalo Calado

IPM-Instituto Português de Malacologia
Zoomarine EN 125 KM 65
8200-864 GUIA
PORTUGAL

Phone (w): +351 96 795 00 55
Fax: +351 289 560 309
Email: bagoncas@netvisao.pt

Currently I'm lecturing Ecology and Marine Biology in a Portuguese University and I have some ongoing projects with seaslugs of the Portuguese Coasts.

Last modified: 21-Feb-2006

Lais Kraus de Camargo

Luskroog 17
23730Neustadt
Germany

Email: lais.kdc@web.de

A bio freak sice childhood, I studied medicine in Brasil. Diving is my second profession and underwater photography a hobby.

Last modified: 29-Oct-2007

Orso Angulo Campillo

Email: mol@lapaz.cromwell.com.mx

I am a university student and have been studying sea slugs for 5 years preparing a list of species found in the Baja California region. See my message for further details.

Magdalena Caretti

M.T de Alvear 2371.2C
CP(1112). Buenos Aires.
ARGENTINA

Phone (h): 822-4335
Fax: 822-4335
Email: fcaretti@tournet.com.ar

I'm a student from Argentina (Universidad de Buenos Aires) who's interested in the different kinds of defenses that these animals have, specially those in which color is an important factor.

Clay Carlson

Merizo, Guam
P.O. Box 8019
Merizo,
GUAM 96916

Phone (h): 671 828-8082/3434
Fax: 671 828-0827
Email: clay.carlson@kuentos.guam.net

Diver and underwater photographer. Has been studying the opisthobranchs of Guam for many years.

Allison Carver

Southern California Marine Institute
820 S. Seaside Ave.
Terminal Island,
California CA 90731
USA

Email: acarver67@hotmail.com

I am an undergraduate in Biology and Environmental Studies at Cal State University, San Bernardino, and I am interested in introduced marine species, especially the Philine species along the southern California coast.

Levent Cavas

Dokuz Eylul University
Faculty of Science and Art
Chemistry-Biochemistry Department
35160 Tinaztepe Campus
IZMIR-TURKEY

Phone (h): +90 232 244 3894
Phone (w): +90 232 453 5072-2138
Phone (m): +90 546 217 6563
Fax: +90 232 453 4188
Email: lcavas@deu.edu.tr
URL: http://kisi.deu.edu.tr/lcavas

I am a Ph.D. student in Chemistry-Biochemistry Department at Dokuz Eylul University. and interested in oxygen free radical reactions and
antioxidants. I have a diver certificate. I investigate the antioxidant status of some sea plants in Turkish Coastline.

Bill Chambers

Email: chambers@fastlink.com.au

PADI Master Instructor/Course Director. Teaching diving since 1975. Underwater Photography Instructor. Interests include photography, wrecks, marine biology, marine aquariums and computers. (Plus a few hundred other things that I can't find time/money/or my wife won't let me do!) Married, two kids. Day job - Dental Ceramics Technician.

First became interested in Nudibranchs when I lived in Malaysia (for 3yrs) and started underwater photography with a Nikonos II plus bulb flash in 1975. Now live at Lake Macquarie, (south of Newcastle).

Dive mainly Nelson Bay and Swansea.

Carlene Cheong

Singapore

Email: blu_abyss@hotmail.com

Fanatic female diver residing in Singapore. I go out diving as often as I can, usually in the SE Asia region and at least once to Maldives a year.

Ivan Choong

URL: http://www.i-nsc.net

Director for my company, retailing / distributing dive literature.

While secondary portfolio is an underwater photojournalist for an Asian dive magazine. I'm given opportunities to photograph macro subjects especially nudibrachs which I so adore because of their vivid colors.

Last modified: 02-May-2007

Michelle Chow

Bodega Marine Laboratory
P.O. Box 247
Bodega Bay,
California, CA 94923
USA

Phone (h): (707) 875-2211
Email: mmchow@ucdavis.edu

I am a graduate student from San Francisco State University. For my thesis, I am interested in the introduced species of Philine on the California coast.

Gennaro Ciavarella

via Urbano 53
71100 Foggia
Italy

Phone (h): +390881772539
Phone (w): +390881740519
Phone (m): +393481506182
Fax: +390881718357
Email: g.ciavarella@alice.it

Since 1980, scuba diving has been my passion. I dive mainly on the Adriatic Coast of Apulia Region in Italy and In North Sulawesi and South Borneo. I love all underwater life especially the little one and, then, I begin photographing and identifying the many species which occur in my diving range.

Last modified: 23-Dec-2006

Kathryn Clark

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Tupper Att. Kathryn Clark
Unit 0948
APO AA 34002
USA

Phone (w): 507-212-8247
Email: ymcsquirrel@hotmail.com

I am a masters student from McGill/NEO program studying in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. I work on marine chemical ecology, with a drug discovery aspect with ICBG (international cooperative biodiversity group). I work with Dolabrifera dolabrifera, Stylocheilus, Elysia diomedea and Polybranchia viridis.

Last modified: 20-Jun-2006

Kerry B Clark

Professor of Biological Sciences,
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne,
Florida, FL 32901-6988
USA

Phone (w): 1-407-674-8195
Email: kclark@iu.net

Visit his West Atlantic opisthobranch site.

Sadly, Kerry died in January 1999. See Paula Mikkelsen's message.

Marcus Coltro

Sao Paulo SP Brazil

Phone (h): 55 11 50817261
Email: shells@femorale.com.br
URL: http://www.femorale.com

Not really into slugs, but have been traveling all over the world and collecting them (or taking pictures) to friends for study purposes.
I own a shell business with my brother Jose since 1989 (Femorale).
We are always open to help scientists/biologists with material or collecting information.

Last modified: 20-May-2006

Jack Connick

1935 8th Ave West
Seattle, WA 98119

Phone (w): 206-284-1142
Phone (m): 206-284-6451
Email: JackConnick@Yahoo.com
URL: http://OpticalOcean.com

I'm an avid diver and underwater photographer with about 500 dives in 9 countries. Love to shoot sea slugs anytime I can!

Last modified: 04-Oct-2005

David Cothran

Email: david@wandering-eye.com

I am a long term admirer of the Sea Slug Forum - it has been a fantastically useful resource for my work a marine naturalist for Lindblad Expeditions. I have been diving in the Antarctic for the past 6 Austral summers.

Last modified: 21-Feb-2007

Dr. Edwin Cruz-Rivera

University of Guam Marine Laboratory
UOG Station
Mangilao,
GUAM 96923

Phone (w): (671)735-2696
Fax: (671)734-6767
Email: ecruzriv@uog.edu

My research focuses on the nutritional and chemical ecology of marine plant-herbivore interactions, the ecology of mesograzers, and how prey traits affect the ecology and evolution of consumer feeding preferences in marine systems.

In Guam, some species of Volvatella recruit in large numbers every so often. I am currently working on some aspects of the feeding and chemical ecology of V. pyriformis (a specialist on Caulerpa sertularioides).

Scott Cummins

Marine Biomedical Institute
University of Texas Medical Branch
301 University Blvd.
Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.

Phone (w): (409) 772 2840
Email: sfcummin@utmb.edu

I am a postdoctoral research fellow studying chemical communication between Aplysia spp. Pheromone communication appears to be important to the success of these animals. One area of my research has led to the discovery that during the process of egg laying these animals release a blend of pheromones that attract other Aplysia, which results in aggregations of mating animals. We have characterised these pheromones in great detail. It's likely that a similar pheromonal system exists in other sea slugs.

Last modified: 02-Nov-2005

Jacob Dafni

P.O.box 6469 Eilat, ISRAEL 88105

Phone (h): 972-8-6372383
Phone (m): 972-52-3909104
Fax: 972-8-6372383
Email: jdafni@netvision.net.il
URL: http://www.dafni.com/dafni-sites

For ca. 45 years observing and studying the marine invertebrates of the Red Sea, particularly the Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba Gulf). I earned my degrees studying the species diversity of an invertebrate community upon dead corals, while my doctorate dealt mainly with the consequences of chemical pollution on the growth and form (i.e. deformities) on the sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla elatensis (a Red Sea subspecies of this common sea urchin.
In between I gathered a large collection of mollusc shells, of ca 600 species. Lately I added more than 150 opistobranch species to a web guide for the Gulf mollusca, one of 7 webguides for other invertebrates. The guide and a personal site can be found under my website portal "dafni-sites".

Last modified: 02-Aug-2005

Stephen Davison

c/o 4 Wray St
Acacia Ridge
Bisbane 4110

Phone (m): 0415215049
Email: stephen_davison@hotmail.com.au
URL: http://www.stephendavison.net

Despite finishing High School with Maths Science subjects I Studied arts and worked as a performer in Musical Theatre for 14 years, I took a break to become a Dive master and then a SCUBA instructor and have been doing that on and off for a few years now. Hence the interest in fishlife. I came across this website initially in an email news letter from a Dive shop then researching sea hares! I'll be back to improve my fish ID and to contribute if I can. I expect I'll be referring a lot of students here too!

Last modified: 24-Oct-2005

Sherri Deaver

1918 Parkhill Drive
Billings, MT
59102
USA

Email: ksdeaver1@bresnan.net

Recreational snorkler and REEF member. I routinely fill out REEF survey forms on all snorkels. I would be glad to record other data for researchers with specific interests. I tend to do a lot of muck snorkels as well as the more traditional reef sites. Most of the time I go to the southern Caribbean but will occasionally venture into the Pacific.

Last modified: 24-Aug-2005

Arpit Deomurari

"Avani" Anand Colony Road No. 1
Behind Mental Hospital, Vikasgruh Road,
Jamnagar-361008
Gujarat- INDIA

Phone (w): +91-9426442243
Email: deomurari@gmail.com
URL: http://arpit.50webs.com

I'm a young naturalist from Jamnagar, I'm Computer Engineer by profession, and working as a freelance consultant. I have a passion for marine creatures, birds and other wildlife. For my personal introduction to say the least, I am a technocrat trying to find out easier and smart ways to get away from the "technology world" for my pursuits in wildlife. It's a passion and sheer poetry for my soul. I am most fascinated by the wonders of this natural world and every moment of my life is a walk in exploration. I never wait for any opportunity to happen but have always endeavored to create them when they were least possible. Birding from childhood, I know the areas of Rann of Kutch,Marine National Park, Gulf of Kutch, Jamnagar Coastal Area and the National Parks of Gujarat like the palm of my hand.

I had participated in coral, bird and mammal surveys in the great Rann of Kutch, Gulf of kutch and jamnagar. I am an expert in identifying and locating the specialties. My ability to closely work with forest department, NGOs and other individuals is excellent.

I had also Worked as a resource person for Forest Department, MarineNational Park in Jamnagar, Gujarat for designing Marine Natural History Museum and Interpretation Zone. Responsible for arranging and displaying zoological specimens taxonomically, including various species of corals, mollusk, fish and other vertebrates. And also Forest Department, Marine National Park, Jamnagar, Gujarat as a resource person for preparing various studies and reports.

My Interest:
Bird and Coral Taxonomy and identification, Population Analysis of Avian fauna, Herpetology, Conchology. Marine Invertebrates, Raptors etc. Study of reptiles and birds in captivity.

Skills
• Identification birds, reptiles, corals and other marine invertebrates.
• Developing and deploying detailed project for avian and marine fauna monitoring
• Collecting and analyzing various data for preparing effective reports and action plans for conservation.
• Use latest IT and other tools like GIS for wildlife research and conservation.
• Developing tailor-made software for data collection and analysis for wildlife related
• In-depth knowledge of ecology and environment.
• Knowledge of various techniques for bird and coral reef monitoring like spot count, Captured count and other protocols etc.
• Master skills in Collation, collection and compilation of data from literature.

Last modified: 29-Jun-2006

Andrea Di Cencio

Email: pariskaroopah@hotmail.com

I'm a student of geology and paleontology here in Italy. I'm interested in all news about pteropods... recent and fossil...
Thanx and good bye
Andrea Di Cencio

Mona Dienhart

4, Kreizenhicht
L-6225 Altrier
Luxembourg
Europe

Phone (h): +352 26 95 38 58
Phone (w): +352 95 92 05 56
Phone (m): +352 621 30 85 86
Email: monalisa1@ekit.com
URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wistiti/

I'm 37 years old and live with my husband in northern Luxembourg. We both discovered scuba diving in Malaysia on the Perentian Is. in March 2000. We took our brand new Sea&Sea MII underwater during our dive course! Since then the camera has changed a couple of times. Currently we are shooting with a Fuji E900. But the dSLR has arrived...
I was always interested in photography, especially underwater. I think it's one of the best means to get non-divers a look to this precious underwater world.
Locations we have dived :
AFRICA :Red Sea, Mozambique
EUROPE : Madeira, Croatia, Luxembourg, Medes(Spain)
ASIA : Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines

I'm actually OWSI and teaching in Luxembourg

Last modified: 20-Jul-2007

Dishant

1792/A, SHRINAGAR SOCIETY, SARDARNAGAR, BHAVNAGAR, GUJARAT, INDIA

Phone (h): 0912782470838
Phone (m): 0919825469115
Email: dparasharya@gmail.com

I'm a researcher working on various aspects of coral reef in the Gulf of Kutch. Gujarat, India

Last modified: 11-May-2007

Richard Driver

18473 65 Avenue
Cloverdale B.C.
Canada V3S 8T1

Phone (h): (604) 575-1751
Phone (w): (604) 881-2645
Email: sculpin@telus.net

I have been an active scuba diver in the Pacific Northwest (North Eastern Pacific, Washington USA and British Columbia Canada) for the last 36 years.

I average about 50 dives per year and have done SCUBA instruction, Commercial, Sport, and underwater still, film and video photography.

Last modified: 29-Oct-2007

Anne DuPont

4070 NW 7th Lane
Delray Beach, Florida
Fl 33445, USA

Phone (h): 561-495-2143
Email: akdupont@bellsouth.net

Anne is a retired IBM instructor whose favorite pursuit is underwater photography. She particularly enjoys photographing invertebrates and has a passion for nudibranchs. She dives and photographs primarily in Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

Anne and her husband reside in Delray Beach, Florida. When not diving Florida waters, they spend their time diving and cruising the Bahamas on their trawler.

Sean Dyer

Kihei, Hawaii

Phone (h): 858-779-9161
Phone (w): 858-779-9161
Email: sean@scubapost.net
URL: http://www.scubapost.net

I dive a few times a week and enjoying photographing undewater life including Sea Slugs. I live on the island of Maui in Hawaii. I run a website called Scubapost.net which is where I post my photos. We have a Field Guide where some of us are organizing our photos for underwater reference. I'm very interested in finding out more about the behaviors of the Slugs and will post photos here to add to the index.

Thanks,

Sean

Last modified: 14-Dec-2007

Daniel Edwards

PhD Student
School of Life Sciences
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh
EH14 4AS
Scotland

Email: dcbe1@hw.ac.uk

I'm currently investigating various aspects of the ecology of British sea pens for my PhD at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. I'm particularly interested in the role of nudibranchs as potential predators of sea pens.

Kamal El Tawil

Cairo, Egypt

Phone (w): +20 2 304-2788
Email: kt@coralworld.net
URL: http://www.coralworld.net

I am an amateur diver and love underwater photography. I dive in the Egyptian red sea. I spend most of my dive time looking for small stuff and nudibranchs. As a profession, i am a chemical engineer and have my own business related to the chemical industry.

I have just designed www.coralworld.net where i posted my pictures. Any questions related to the red sea are welcome.

Last modified: 16-Jan-2006

Wayne Ellis

PO Box 3
GlassHouse Mountains Qld 4518
Australia

Phone (h): (07) 5493 0040
Phone (m): 015 767 220
Email: glaskin@ozemail.com.au
URL: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~glaskin

I've been diving since 1981. From early on I have been interested in photographing and collecting information on nudis. Before moving to Qld I dived extensively around Newcastle, Port Stephens and Forster. I have dived many sites in NSW, Lord Howe Island, Hawaii, New Guinea and The Great Barrier Reef. With assistance of local divers and dive shops and others I'm compiling a database of Sunshine Coast nudis.

Visit my website http://www.ozemail.com.au/~glaskin to download a copy of my on-line monthly newsletter - Australasian Nudibranch NEWS.

I am also an Honorary Volunteer at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane.

Emily Eng

Bellevue, Washington, USA

Email: EmilyEng@ScuAlum.com

I've recently finished my undergraduate degree in biology and am looking for an opportunity to research/work with any sea slugs. If you know of any volunteer or research positions out there, please email me and let me know. I'd love to work at any lab or aquarium anywhere in the world. I have found out that my passion and love are these nudibranchs and to work with them is my life's goal.
Thanks for the help,
Emily.

Last modified: 29-Oct-2007

Levent Erkol

Department of Marine Biology,
Faculty of Fisheries,
Çukurova University
Adana
Turkey

Phone (h): +90 322 225 29 65
Phone (w): +90 322 338 60 84/2065/133
Phone (m): +90 535 9681309
Email: levent.erkol@gmail.com
URL: http://www.adanascuba.com

I am a diving instructor and marine conservation specialist studying invertebrate biodiversity of Levantine Sea.

Last modified: 03-Aug-2006

Jussi Evertsen

Trondhjem Biological Station
Department of Biology
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
N-7491 Trondheim, Norway

Phone (w): +47 73591582
Email: jussi.evertsen(a)bio.ntnu.no
URL: http://www.nudibranchia.no

Currently a PhD candidate working on a project on sacoglossans and how they utilize photosynthetic chloroplasts (kleptoplasty).

Also running a project on nudibranch diversity along the Norwegian coast. See www.nudibranchia.no for more info.

Last modified: 02-Aug-2005

Joshua Feingold

13801 SW 26th Street
Davie, Florida 33325

Phone (h): (954) 915-8838
Phone (w): (954) 262-8307
Phone (m): (954) 647-8453
Email: joshua@nova.edu

Associate Professor
3301 College Avenue
Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33314

Last modified: 29-Oct-2007

David Feld

12 Third Avenue
Grantham
Lincolnshire
NG31 9TR
England

Phone (h): +44 (0) 1476 578412
Email: drf@dfeld.freeserve.co.uk

- General interest in all things molluscan.
- Collect just about everything, including non-marine, but particularly keen on Aporrhaidae/ Struthiolariidae, Ficidae, Nassariidae, Thaididae, Mytilidae, Pinnidae and shelled opisthobranchs.
- Currently writing 'A Field Guide to the Marine Gastropods of Britain and northwest Europe' (northern France to the Arctic Sea, and Denmark Straits to the Kara Sea).
- Would be grateful for any interesting and/or useful information on any of the Opisthobranchia from within this area, especially deep-sea species. Certainly happy to correspond.

Last modified: 01-Nov-2005

Aaron Fink

4344 Conway Valley CT
Atlanta, GA 30327
USA

Phone (h): 404-262-2397
Phone (m): 404-444-0821
Email: aaron@finksphotos.com
URL: http://www.finksphotos.com

In 1986 I purchased my first underwater camera and discovered a new photographic realm. I have worked with Ella Jean Morgan, Franklin Viola, and Donald Tipton and have been honored with numerous publications, several photographic awards, and multiple gallery appearances. I live in Atlanta, GA with my wife Vicki, who shares my passion for the beauty of our underwater world and concern for its future. When not behind the camera, I am a Professor of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. Additional work can be seen on my website at: www.finksphotos.com.

Last modified: 01-Feb-2007

Hugues Flodrops

2, coteaux de l'Avenir
97427 ÉTANG-SALÉ
RÉUNION ISLAND

Phone (h): 0262-26-09-94
Phone (w): 0262-35-90-00
Email: hugues.flodrops@wanadoo.fr

Pediatrician in a hospital.
Amateur Marine Naturalist and avid underwater photographer since 2000. Passion for sea slugs since 2006.

Last modified: 04-Dec-2006

Judy Foester

5 Pilot Avenue
West Milford, NJ 07480
USA

Phone (h): 973-728-8426
Fax: 973-506-4424
Email: judyfoester@yahoo.com

I'm a retired bio and chem teacher (35 years), living in northern New Jersey. I started snorkeling in 1963 and scuba diving in 1975. After countless trips to the Caribbean, Nancy and Ron Sefton convinced me to try the Pacific. Now, I'm hopelessly 'Pacific'. My friends can't understand how I can travel alone to the opposite side of the planet, but they don't realized that all of us divers are one big family, reuniting at times in small groups. I loved the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. I think the internet is the most amazing way of sharing our knowledge of these sea creatures, with voices from all over. Lately, I've been identifying Eric Cheng's photos from Rajah Ampat.

Last modified: 20-Sep-2005

Brian Francisco

Pantai Kelapa
Dili, East Timor

Email: francisco.brian@gmail.com
URL: http://www.uwet.com

I have been living, working and diving in East Timor since 2003. I first began taking underwate photos in 2004 and in 2005 began the website UnderWater East Timor.

Last modified: 11-Mar-2006

Mike & Valda Fraser

403 Manning Rd
Durban 4001
South Africa

Phone (h): +2731 2058771
Fax: +2731 7646700
Email: iti04937@mweb.co.za

Since 1988, scuba diving has been our passion. We dive mainly on the South Coast of Natal, South Africa, from Scottburgh to Margate. Valda has always been fascinated by nudibranchs and commandeered our Nikonos V early in 1999 to begin photographing and identifying the many species which occur in our diving range.

Mike and Valda Fraser

Virginie Fruh

Ch. des Bruyères 14,
1007 Lausanne,
Switzerland

Email: v_fruh@hotmail.com

Having lived in the Philippines and other Asian countries as a child, I've developed a very strong passion for cnidarians and molluscs, especially our beloved sea slugs. Hoping to one day study them in detail all while working with small local tropical villages in the goal to sustain resources and allow better living conditions, I strongly appreciate this forum and all members!
I have a BSc in Marine Biology and am planning to do a Ph D in New Zealand.

Paul Furneaux

270 Oceanbeach Rd,
Mt Maunganui,
Tauranga,
New Zealand.

Phone (h): 07-575-6574
Phone (w): 07-576-2316
Email: p.furneaux@xtra.co.nz

I am a high-school biology teacher at Otumoetai College in Tauranga, NZ, and have a keen interest in marine biology generally, and in the intertidal, estuarine/harbour-dwelling sea slugs of our area in particular. I am currently endeavouring to encourage some of my students into long-term projects that focus on various intertidal species.

Last modified: 06-Sep-2005

Todd Garthwaite

Taipei, Taiwan

Email: typhoontoddy@yahoo.com

I'm from New Jersey, (USA), and I am a senior instructor of English as a Second Language (ESL), as well as a teacher trainer, here in Taipei, Taiwan. I've lived in Taiwan for nearly 11 years now, and I speak fluent Chinese. I've been an avid diver (& a "brancher") for 4 & half years. I've been pursuing U/W photography as a hobby for about a year & 1/2. I go diving (& "branching") off of Taiwan's Scenic N.E. Coast every week from mid-April to mid-October.

Daniel L. Geiger

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Invertebrate Zoology
2559 Puesta del Sol Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
USA

Phone (w): (805) 682 4711 x152
Fax: (805)563 0574
Email: geiger@vetigastropoda.com
URL: http://www.vetigastropoda.com

I am a malacologist working on vetigastropods (abalone, key-hole limpets, scissurellids) as well as a photographer. I run into slugs during field work and share the finds with the slug people.

Last modified: 03-Aug-2005

Mark Gerlach

Phone (h): 08 9417 3664
Phone (m): 0402 613 811
Email: deepbluediver@iinet.net.au
URL: http://www.gerlachimages.com

I work in the printing industry and have been a keen diver since 1994, I have been taking marine images since 1996.

Last modified: 03-Jan-2007

Scott Gietler

2928 4th street, #17
Santa Monica
California

Email: sgietler@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.ladiving.org

I am an avid underwater photographer and marine science hobbyist who lives in Santa Monica, CA. I also run the website www.ladiving.org. My wife Penny and I try to shore dive each week at various sites in Los Angeles that are home to over 50 species of nudibranchs.

Last modified: 03-Jan-2007

Tony Gilbert

Cheshire, England UK

Email: TonyJGilbert@hotmail.com

Avid diver-photographer, much diving being in UK waters, around most coastlines.

I like identifying marine creatures, especially those that seem to be out of place in a particular area, and love to photograph those smaller species, esp. nudibranchs, flatworms, sea hares, hydroids, brittlestars, pipefish, jewel anemones, blennies etc. No special marine qualifications. Have been photo-diving for 11 years now.

I am particularly interested in molluscia around Lanzarote and the UK.

Last modified: 16-Jun-2007

Ann Gilmore

Phone (w): +64 9 9806789
Email: anng@nzl.biolabgroup.com

I found this seahare, and took these photos, calling over 2 other divers who were in the area, they took photos also. I hovered to take more photos when they had finished, and when i went to do so I pushed a piece of weed out of the way, and in doing so found a tiny seahorse which Rudie Kuiters has since identified as the first living specimen known of H. jugumus - there has been a good deal of excitement surrounding the seahorse, so this dear little seahare has remained in the background until now.

Last modified: 15-Feb-2006

Davide Giovine and Giovanni Raimondi

Genova Aquarium
Genova
Italy

Email: davidegiovine@yahoo.com

We are two students working on our University thesis research on hard corals at Genova Aquarium.

Jeff Goddard

Marine Science Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150
USA

Phone (w): (805) 688-7041
Fax: (805) 686-2470
Email: goddard@lifesci.ucsb.edu

My research interests are in the feeding ecology, mode of development and distribution of opisthobranchs, particularly nudibranchs. I also work on introduced marine organisms and have worked on host specificity in rhizocephalan barnacles. I have been interested in nudibranchs ever since finding my first Hermissenda crassicornis on the shores of San Francisco Bay as a child, and I particularly enjoy surveying new (at least to me) intertidal sites in the northeastern Pacific. Thus far, I have sampled sites between south central Alaska and the Sea of Cortez, plus one trip to Nayarit, Mexico in 1985.

Last modified: 02-Aug-2005

Goker Goksel

34340 Istanbul, Turkiye

Email: gokerg@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.goker.web.tr

Born in 1981
Computer Science Major
Plastic and Plastic Mold Manufacturer

Living in Ulus, Istanbul, Turkiye

Swimming since 1985
Snorkelling since 1987
Photography since 1996
SCUBA diving since 2003
Underwater photography since 2003
UW Photography with SLR camera since 19 May 2005
Keen and experienced amateur UW photographer

Last modified: 06-Oct-2005

Terry Gosliner

Director of Research, Senior Curator,
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology
California Academy of Sciences,
Golden Gate Park,
San Francisco,
California, 94118
USA

Email: tgosliner@calacademy.org
URL: http://www.calacademy.org/research/curators/gosliner.htm

A longtime, productive opisthobranch research worker. See his webpage above for more biographical details.

Karen Gowlett-Holmes

Invertebrate Manager
CSIRO Division of Marine Research
GPO Box 1538
Hobart,
Tasmania,
Australia, 7001

Phone (w): (03) 6232 5128 int. +613 6232 5128
Fax: (03) 6232 5485 int. +613 6232 5485
Email: karen.gowlett-holmes@marine.csiro.au

Mike Greenemeier

Huntsville, AL USA

Email: greenm3@auburn.edu

I'm a student of marine biology at Auburn University in Alabama hoping to study sea slugs in graduate school at some exotic locale. I also enjoy keeping saltwater aquariums.

Last modified: 15-Jul-2005

Jim Greenfield

39 Burnbridge Oval
HARROGATE
HG3 1LP
UK

Phone (h): 01423 873194
Email: jimgreenfield@ntlworld.com

Amateur marine naturalist and avid underwater photographer since 1970.

Last modified: 06-Sep-2006

Severine Grilhe

Mayotte

Email: grilhe.severine@club-internet.fr

I'm French, living now in the island of Mayotte ( Indian ocean ).
I discovered sea slugs since my first dive , in the Atlantic ocean, Arcachon and the Biscaye bay.
I have a lot of macrophotographs, and now a lot of sea slugs from the reef of Mayotte . ( sorry my English is not very good ...)
I can give any information from this place

Last modified: 28-Nov-2005

Reindert Grooters and Mieke Snoek

Karthuizersplantsoen 21
1015LS Amsterdam
the Netherlands

Email: mieke.reindert@chello.nl

Both diving since 1991. Rescue certificate. We always loved nudies. Two years ago we bought a camera and now shooting them, as well as other small critters, on every dive.

Last modified: 08-Sep-2005

Sylvia Grune

Final Calle Corocoro
Qta.CELA
Urb.Playa El Angel
Pampatar
Isla de Margarita
Venezuela

Phone (m): 0058-4147878197
Fax: 0058-2952628198
Email: sylviagrune@gmail.com

I recently graduated as a Marine Biologist at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela. One of my interests is the taxonomy and phylogeny of opistobranch mollusks.

Last modified: 03-Aug-2006

Barbara Hanchard

C/O Forum Fisheries Agency
P.O Box 629
Honiara
Solomon Islands

Phone (h): (677) 24932
Phone (w): (677) 21124
Fax: (677) 23995
Email: barbara.hanchard@ffa.int

I have worked in the Solomon Islands for close to 10 years in the area of Oceanic fisheries management for an regional(inter-governmental) fisheries agency. In the course of diving in the Solomons I have developed a keen interest in marine life smaller than tunas.

Last modified: 21-Jul-2005

Dave Harasti

Email: info@daveharasti.com
URL: http://www.daveharasti.com

Marine scientist / underwater photographer who has been photographing nudibranchs for the past ten years. I have recorded 120 different species from Port Stephens, NSW, eastern Australia, and have photographed about 250 different nudibranch species that can be seen on my website.

Last modified: 25-Jul-2005

Leslie Harris

Collections Manager, Polychaetes
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90007 USA

Phone (w): 1-213-763-3234
Email: lharris@nhm.org
URL: http://www.nhm.org/research/annelida/index.html

My area of speciality is polychaete worms. Through my field work which concentrates on collecting for my museum and photographing live animals I've become enamored of nudibranchs. Most of what I photograph is small since I primarily do microphotography with a Leica MZ12 dissecting scope that accompanies me throughout the world. Examples of my branch images can be seen at the Guana Biodiversity Survey url. I also moderate the Critter ID forums on Wetpixel (www.wetpixel.com) and Digital Diver (www.digitaldiver.net), 2 large UW photography boards. The Sea Slug Forum has been an absolutely invaluable resource and my most frequent comment to people on WP & DD who post images I can't id, range extensions, or of interesting behavior is "You need to send this to Bill!"

www.nhm.org/guana/bvi-invt/home.htm

Last modified: 02-Apr-2006

Lara V. Henry

University of South Florida
College of Marine Science
140 7th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Email: lhenry@marine.usf.edu

I am a graduate student in biological oceanography. I am a scientific diver and amateur undersea photographer. I am currently working on the CARIACO project in the anoxic Cariaco Basin, Venezuela, studying zooplankton adaptations to suboxia.

Last modified: 14-Dec-2006

Daniel Hershman

1212 SW 354th Place
Federal Way
Washington State WA 98023
USA.

Email: dphershman@gmail.com
URL: http://www.hershman.smugmug.com

Seattle area diver and photography instructor.

Last modified: 28-May-2007

Jackie Hildering and Glen Miller

British Columbia, Canada

Email: earthlingenterprises@telus.net
URL: http://www.econauts.org

Glen and I are avid divers in the cold, astoundingly rich waters of Northern Vancouver Island. Our current delight is identifying nudibrach egg masses in our area.

Last modified: 28-May-2007

Yoshiaki J. Hirano

Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University
Yayoi 1-33, Inageku, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan.
(Seashore Address: Kominato Mar. Lab., MBRC,
Kamogawa, 299-5502, Japan)

Phone (w): +81-43-290-2813
Fax: +81-43-290-2813
Email: hiranoyj@faculty.chiba-u.jp
URL: http://www.chiba-u.ac.jp/e/index.html

Associate Professor, Chiba University.
(Marine Biology)

Aeolid nudibranchs, their evolution and ecology, and marine ecosystems...(recently Sacoglossa and algal interactions, biodiversity)...my major fields of sea slug biological science.

Last modified: 30-Apr-2007

Nick Hobgood

Dili, East Timor

Email: timornudis@mac.com
URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/globalvoyager/sets/72057594058441451/

Fascination with nudibranchs prompted me to buy my first underwater camera in 2002. I have not been able to stop since, as evidenced by the frequent (and often larger than my wife would like) transactions in my bank statements. All well worth it. ;-)

Please visit the website above - a regularly updated set of photographs of nudibranchs encountered in East Timor. All the photos are geotagged with the dive site where they were taken.

Last modified: 10-Dec-2006

Robert Jan (Roy) van de Hoek

Ballona Institute
322 Culver Boulevard
Playa del Rey, CA 90293

Phone (w): 310.821-9045
Email: ballonainstitute@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.geocities.com/royvandehoek

I am a biologist, ecologist, geographer, conservationist, and "all-around" naturalist. I first became aware of "sea slugs" and "bubble shells" in 1978, while enrolled at CSUN in an invertebrate zoology course. Marine biology, tidepools, and mudflats have been of interest to me ever since taking that course.

I am particularly fascinated with the history of natural history and the biographies of earlier naturalist-scientists in California, such as the John Steinbeck - Ed Ricketts story, as it relates to marine biology, molluscs, "sea slugs" and "bubble shells."

Last modified: 28-Jul-2006

Yuri Hooker

Laboratorio de Biología Marina
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Av. Honorio Delgado 430, S.M.P., Lima

Phone (w): +51 1 3190043, anexo 2723
Phone (m): +51 1 93043030
Email: hookery@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.terraquatica.com

I'm marine biologist and work in marine diversity in Peru and Antarctica. Diving for more than 20 years and I have been making photography submarine. At the moment I'm making a project with Michael Schroedl, for the inventory of the opistobranquios from Peru.

http://www.upch.edu.pe

Last modified: 17-Oct-2006

Dr Stephen Hoskins C.Biol., F.I.Biol, F.L.S.

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY,
KING EDWARD VI SCHOOL,
KELLETT ROAD,
SOUTHAMPTON SO15 7UQ,
ENGLAND

Phone (w): 023 80704561
Email: srh@kes.hants.sch.uk

Plant/fungal biochemist by training with over 20 years teaching and writing experience coupled with writing book reviews on all aspects of ecology, including marine, biochemistry and plant sciences. Spent a sabbatical a few years back studying sea hares around the UK coasts, including Channel Islands, and posted a few sightings on the Sea Slug Forum. I still undertake field work on Aplysia punctata during my summer vacations and am an avid reader of the Forum's messages.

Last modified: 11-Jul-2006

Stuart & Melinda Hutchison

14 Austin Place
Wynn Vale
SA 5127
Australia

Phone (h): +61 8 8251 4012
Email: stuart@stuarthutchison.com.au
URL: http://www.stuarthutchison.com.au

We are both very keen nudibranch observers and would be glad to elaborate on what we've seen around Adelaide, South Australia (in particular Edithburgh, Port Hughes and Rapid Bay).

Jun Imamoto

1394-1 Oogachi, Tatsugou-CHO, Ooshima-GUN, Kagoshima-KEN, JAPAN
ZIP 894-0105

Phone (h): +81-997-55-4119
Phone (m): 090-5821-4192
Email: imamoto@umiushi.info
URL: http://www.umiushi.info/

My occupation is a computer system engineer.
I am an amateur sea slug researcher mainly interested in photography.
I live in the isolated island of Amami-Ooshima which is about 300 km northeast of Okinawa.

The climate is subtropical the sea temperature is affected by the Kuroshio Current which passes nearby.

Last modified: 30-Jul-2005

Ray Izumi

27704 NE Quail Creek Dr.
Redmond, WA 98053
USA

Email: skeptic@centurytel.net

I'm a computer network consultant, which is a way to pay the bills for my real passion, shooting underwater video. My favorite subjects are opisthobranchs. I have broadcast-quality footage of over three hundred species right now, and the number grows all the time.

Some examples are available at The Slug Site.

Last modified: 22-Jul-2005

Paul Jambunathan

Consultant Clinical Psychologist
International Medical University
Commonwealth Plaza
57000 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Phone (w): 603-86567228
Fax: 603-86567229
Email: pjambu@imu.edu.my

Hello from Malaysia. I belong to a group of very ardent divers who have a passion for the micro world.

Arie W. Janssen

Email: ariewe@waldonet.net.mt
URL: http://sites.waldonet.net.mt/ariewe/

I specialise on mainly fossil heteropods and pteropods of Cainozoic age. I used to be a curator of the Dutch national Museum of Natural History (Palaeontology Department) at Leiden, the Netherlands, but currently I live a retired life in Malta, where I continue my research studying many samples from all over the world. Please have a look at my website to find further details about me and my work and a lot of info on holoplanktonic molluscs and their literature. I gratefully accept identification requests on fossil holoplanktonics ...

Kathe R. Jensen

Zoological Museum
Universitetsparken 15
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
Denmark

Email: krjensen@snm.ku.dk

This is just a change of my e-mail address; the old one still works, but I don't know for how long.

Last modified: 15-Feb-2006

Budi Ramadi Jerry

Email: brjerry@gmail.com
URL: http://www.kapalselam.org

Recreational diver & casual underwater photographer. Big fans of nudibranch.

Last modified: 01-Feb-2007

Scott Johnson

Kwajalein, Marshall Islands

Email: uwkwaj@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.underwaterkwaj.com

I grew up in the Marshall Islands and was trained in Hawaii as a biologist with special interest in West-Central Pacific nudibranchs. I spent several years at the Mid-Pacific Research Lab on Enewetak Atoll, but the lab closed due to lack of funding late in 1983. After spending so many years in the tropics, I found my blood too thin to spend much time in a temperate climate, and tropical jobs for nudi specialists were few. To earn a living, I switched to computer system administration as a day job -- but it really is just to support my addiction to compressed nitrogen delivered by scuba regulator. A still photographer for many years, I now spend most of my underwater time dragging around a video camera.

Last modified: 25-Jan-2006

Rebecca Johnson

Califonia Academy of Sciences
875 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Phone (w): 415 321-8252
Fax: 415 321-8615
Email: rjohnson@calacademy.org

I am a PhD candidate at the University of California at Santa Cruz and the California Academy of Sciences. My work focuses on the evolutionary history of chromodoridid nudibranchs. Specifically, I am using molecular and morphological tools to untangle relationships and help delineate species in this amazingly diverse group.

Last modified: 04-Nov-2005

P.M. Johnson

NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Department of Zoology
University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

Spring Quarter Address (April 1 - June 10):
7-1306 Hoshimigaoka, C-102
Kuwana-shi, Mie-ken 511-0912
JAPAN

Email: pmj@u.washington.edu

I'm a PhD student in zoology at the University of Washington working on defense in sea hares, particularly the ink and opaline systems of Aplysia.

Ian D. Jones MD

Email: Ian.Jones@Vanderbilt.edu

Professionally, I am an Emergency Medicine physician. I am an avid underwater photographer and amateur underwater naturalist. I always enjoy finding, photographing, and identifying nudibranchs.

Last modified: 03-Aug-2005

Lisa Kirkendale

Email: fragum4ever@yahoo.com

I completed my MSc at University of Guam in 2000, my doctorate in Florida this past December and now reside in Sydney, Australia.

Last modified: 10-Apr-2006

Annette Klussmann-Kolb

Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity
Goethe University Frankfurt
60054 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Phone (w): +49 69 798 24719
Email: Klussmann-Kolb@zoology.uni-frankfurt.de
URL: http://www.bio.uni-frankfurt.de/klussmann-kolb

I am juniorprofessor at the University in Frankfurt, Germany. My main research interest are the taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution of heterobranch gastropods with special focus on Opisthobranchia.
In our group we use morphological, histological, histochemical and molecular techniques.

Last modified: 02-Dec-2005

Christian Knost

Am Sattelgut 98
44879 Bochum
Germany

Phone (h): +492344526150
Phone (m): +491605793642
Email: cknost@arcor.de
URL: http://www.uw-critters.de

Keen diver with MB-related interests, especially regarding UW macro photography on nudibranchs/opisthobranchs.

I used to work as a scuba instructor in Dahab, Sinai/Egypt, Khao Lak/Thailand as well as a shop manager in Tulamben, Bali/Indonesia.

PADI MSDT, 1600+ logged dives, currently shooting with Canon PowerShot S50 in WP-DC 300 housing plus Sea&Sea 1:2 attachment lens and YS-25 DX strobe. Main photo locations: Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines.

Private background: Technical Writer

Last modified: 29-Oct-2007

Erwin Kodiat

Kuta, Bali
Indonesia

Email: info@nudipixel.net
URL: http://www.nudipixel.net

Erwin, the co-founder of Nudi Pixel, is a full time web developer and co-owner of Terong Internet Engineering as well as the co-founder of Kapal Selam Dive Club, a non profit dive club. He is building the Underwater Photography Forum to facilitate the need for underwater photography discussion among divers especially beginners. He has pursued underwater photography as an enjoyable pastime since 2005 after a short introduction to the art by his friend.

Erwin has traveled to many exotic dive sites in Indonesia and Thailand since 2002. These travels have taken him to Bali, Raja Ampat Islands, Komodo, Central Moluccas (Ambon, Pulau Tiga, Seram Island), Halmahera Island, Derawan Islands - East Borneo (Derawan, Sangalaki, Maratua), Selayar Island, Manado, Lembeh Strait, Lombok Island, and the Similan Islands.

Erwin has had a real passion for nudibranchs since the first time he went diving and saw the beauty of these 'ocean butterflies'.

Last modified: 16-Jun-2007

Erwin Koehler

Erwin Koehler
Logon, Malapascua island,
Daanbantayan, Cebu North
Philippines

Email: Erwin@Philippine-Sea-Slugs.com

I am a keen uw-photographer specialised in Opisthobranchs. I am the webmaster of two websites:

Mediterranean Slug Site: www.medslugs.de
Sea Slugs from the Philippine Islands: www.Philippine-Sea-Slugs.com

Last modified: 09-Jun-2006

Erwin Koehler

Darmstadt,
GERMANY.

Email: Medslugs.Koehler@t-online.de
URL: http://www.medslugs.de

My full time job is database-administrator at Deutsche Post AG, no wife, no children. Diver and uw-photographer since 1989. I take care of the Mediterranean Slug Site.

If you want to see your opisthobranch-photos on the web for free, please contact me.

Dong Bum Koh

HanBit Psychiatric Clinic.
560, Samdo 1-Dong,
Jeju City,
South Korea

Phone (h): 82-64-746-5639
Phone (w): 82-64-758-3878
Phone (m): 016-699-5639
Fax: 82-64-758-3879
Email: drkoh@seasee.co.kr
URL: http://www.seasee.co.kr

I'm a psychiatrist & opened my clinic in Jeju island.

During past 10 years I taking underwater photos, including seaslugs and sampled Ovulidae around Jeju area.

Now I am interested in identify of Korean Ovulidae and seaslugs for my publication.

I'm not a professional but enthusiastic amateur.

Last modified: 22-Jul-2005

Audrey Koh

Singapore

Email: audrey_koh@hotmail.com
URL: http://www.whitemanta.com/gallery

I am Singaporean.I started diving in 1999 and has never stopped since. It's a blessing to live in Singapore as it allows me to dive in the beautiful South China Sea region by just hopping on a liveaboard. I have always seen so many unknown creatures underwater and it's always so hard to describe them. That motivated me to get a digital camera. Since I bought my Sony P9 last May, I have not stop clicking. Now I can take photos & ask someone what it is. Today, I almost found my answer to another unknown creature I have seen. :-)

Jean-Paul & Ute Koninx

Muscat,
Sultanate of Oman.

Email: koninx@omantel.net.om

We have been diving since 1997, and discovered nudibranchs thanks to a guest lecture on Heron Island, in 1998. A year later we tried underwater photography, and ever since we are fully hooked on the little creatures. Ever more we find ourselves spending a whole dive on a couple of meters squared, while the sharks pass unseen behind our backs ...

[Previously in Perth, Western Australia]

Binyamin and Shulamit Koretz

PO Box 1950
Eilat 88119, Israel

Phone (w): +972 8 633 0205
Phone (m): +972 54 485 8977
Fax: +972 8 633 0204
Email: binyamin@koretz.net
URL: http://www.koretz.net/Eilat/Invertebrates/Molluscs/Opistobranchs.htm

Sea slug enthusiasts who live and dive in Eilat, Israel, on the shore of the Red Sea.

Last modified: 16-Feb-2006

Mike Krampf

Sri Penaga #37-22-3
Jalan Medang Serai
Bukit Bandaraya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 59100

Phone (w): +603-5639-3101
Phone (m): +6012-222-3456
Email: mtkrampf@yahoo.com

Avid scuba diver with over 500 dives and amateur underwater photographer that has just recently moved from the "big stuff" to the "little stuff" and am trying to learn more about nudibranches.

Last modified: 06-Jun-2006

Pauli Kuusisto

Phone (h): 66 (0)76 354386
Fax: 66 (0)76 248815
Email: pauli@loxinfo.co.th

I am a Swedish Master Mariner based in Phuket,Thailand since 1987. Dived since 1988. Work approx. 6 months a year at world wide shipping.

While on leave my Interest is Diving/UW photography, mostly Macro. To be able to dive as much as possible I do some Freelance Divemastering for a local dive-operator, (Fantasea Divers)

Pauli Kuusisto

KL Kwang

Level 19, Uptown One
1, Jalan SS21/58,
Damansara Uptown,
47400 Petaling Jaya
Malaysia

Phone (w): +60 7723 6582
Phone (m): +60 12 3990 325
Email: klkwang@deloitte.com

I love the sea and all the creature in it. I'm just an avid diver and underwater photographer that love nudibranchs since I was introduced to it by my dive instructor. I now have lots of images of various nudibranchs.

Last modified: 29-Oct-2007

Sam LaPonza

13700 Hathaway Road
Garfield Heights, Ohio 44125

Phone (m): 216-246-9824

I have been working with saltwater fish and inverts as a hobby for 8 years now.

Last modified: 15-Aug-2006

Asther M. Lau

Selangor, Malaysia

Phone (m): +60122996942
Email: asther@astherlau.com
URL: http://www.astherlau.com

An active-teaching scuba instructress, I'm also very into underwater photography since 2003. This forum has helped me and my fellow divers/students in understanding and identifying the beautiful nudibranchs that we've found in our dives. I'm especially happy to find that this forum has not been closed down and Bill is still here to share with us.

Last modified: 07-Nov-2005

Kevin Lee

Fullerton, California USA

Email: diverkevin@gmail.com
URL: http://www.ocdiving.com

Business Consultant. Avid mountain biker & high altitude trekker. Scuba certified in 2003. After 100 dives, diving became ho-hum. Then I got my hands on an underwater camera and now I look forward to every dive. Nuds are my favorite subjects. Board Member of Orange County Underwater Photographic Society (www.ocups.org). K:-)

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