Dr Graham Oliver
Head of Department of Biodiversity & Systematic Biology
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Email: Dr Graham Oliver
Tel:+44 (0)29 2057 3221
Expertise and interests
Taxonomy and functional morphology of the Bivalvia. Specialist taxonomic interests the Arcoidea, Thyasiroidea and Solemyoidea. Preparation of identification tools for the shallow and deep-sea faunas of the British Isles, Red Sea, Arabian Sea and Western Indian Ocean.
Anna Holmes
Research Assistant
Mollusca Section
Department of Biodiversity & Systematic Biology
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Email: Anna Holmes
Tel:+44 (0)29 2057 3217
Expertise & Interests
Taxonomy of marine bivalves specialising in British Isles fauna (with an interest in Galeommatoidea) and Western Indian Ocean. Preparation of identification tools for the shallow and deep-sea faunas of the British Isles and Western Indian Ocean.
Bivalve taxonomy, specialising in British fauna with an interest in Galeommatoidea. Interest in W Indian Ocean micro bivalves.
Ian Killeen
Consultant
Malacological Services
Dublin, Ireland
Email: Ian Killeen
Tel:+44 (0)7973 384366
Expertise & Interests
Taxonomy and ecology of marine and freshwater Bivalvia. Specialist interests include the deep-sea fauna of the NE Atlantic, and European Sphaeriidae and conservation of Margaritiferidae. Development of monitoring protocols for land and freshwater molluscs, training workshops, identification guides. .
James Turner
Research Assistant (Entomology & Mollusca)
Department of Biodiversity & Systematic Biology
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Email: James Turner
Tel:+44 (0)29 2057-3135
Expertise and interests
Specialist in Biological Imaging for taxonomic research, and the development of relational databases and web-based taxonomic tools for identification. Also has interests in the taxonomy of deep sea bivalves of the Protobranchia group from the North East Atlantic.
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Current projects
- Leverhulme Trust funded project to provide an authoritive guide to the leafhopper and planthopper vectors of phytoplasma and virus disease, using digital images of adult insects, taxonomic drawings of morphological features, and text on the biology and pest status of each species. Leafhopper, Planthopper and Psyllid Vectors of Plant Disease.
- Department of Energy & Climate Change funded project to produce an online identification guide to the Marine Bivalves of the British Isles.
- Leverhulme Trust funded project to produce an online identification guide and illustrated checklists to the Sharpshooter Leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae subfamily Cicadellinae) of the World, based on the taxonomic study of the subfamily by David Young (1968, 1977, 186). Sharpshooter Leafhoppers of the World.
- Atlantic Frontier Environmental Network (AFEN) funded taxonomic study of deep-sea bivalves, focusing on bivalves from the genus Thyasira, Yoldiella and Cuspidaria, with the aim to produce fully illustrated taxonomic publications.