Dear All,
Happy New Year! I hope that the Christmas period treated you well! I
just wanted to let you know that we still have a limited number of
places available on our "Discovering Amphipod Families " course and I
also have the great pleasure of announcing two more taxonomy courses for
which we are now taking bookings. The first is a Terebellomoprha and
Nephtyidae identification course which will be lead by Dr.Sc. Igor
Jirkov, an international authority on these groups from Moscow State
Lomonosov University. The second is our two-week benthic taxonomy school
which will be held at the Marine Biological Association of the Uk in
June. Full details will be on our website shortly but if you know you
would like a place on either of these courses please do feel free to
e.mail me directly for a booking form.
*Discovering Amphipod Families*****Booking Now*******
*4th -6th February**
Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd, 3 Palace Yard Mews, Bath, BA1 2NH*
This course will enable participants to gain experience and confidence
in the identification, to the family level, of British marine Gammarid
amphipods. The Gammarid amphipods are a large and diverse group of
crustaceans, the identification of which which can be daunting for
beginners to macrofaunal taxonomy. There are dozens of amphipod
families, and hundreds of amphipod species found in UK waters and their
identification requires microscopic examination of very small body
parts. This course will guide students through the morphology of
amphipods focusing on features used in identification at the family level.
The course will use the key text for this field, the 1977 book of
British Marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea by Roger J. Lincoln. Many taxonomic
papers have been written since clarifying or changing details but this
text remains the most comprehensive and accessible key for this group.
The workshop will be predominantly lab based with microscope sessions
guided by experienced senior taxonomists from the MESL laboratory team
and utilising specimens from our in-house reference collection.
Becoming familiar with the general morphology of amphipods, and
identification to the family level, is a crucial step towards in the
development of the skills required to accurately identify these animals
to species.
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Terebellomorpha and Nephtyidae Identification Workshop**with Dr.Sc. Igor
Jirkov ***Booking Now*******
*23rd -25th February**
Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd, 3 Palace Yard Mews, Bath, BA1 2NH*
Dr.Sc .Igor Jirkov, a leading researcher from Moscow State Lomonosov
University, will be running a three day workshop focusing on the
identification of species belonging to Terebellomorpha and Nephtyidae.
User friendly, pictorial identification keys revised by Dr Jirkov will
be presented during the workshop and tested using specimens from a
variety of sources including our in-house reference collection.
Participants are encouraged to bring along their own specimens for
advice on identification from Dr Jirkov.
*Benthic Taxonomy Summer School *****Booking Now*******
*13th -24th June**
*
*The Marine Life and Environmental Science Resource Centre, Marine
Biological Association of the UK, Plymouth*, PL1 2PB
The two week Benthic Taxonomy Summer School provides students with
hands-on experience working in the marine environment and an
introduction to species identification skills. The course will build
upon practical sampling and identification skills which many students
will have gained during related undergraduate degree courses and
provides skill and experience vital to those wishing to pursue a
commercial or academic career in Marine Biology.
During the first week students have the opportunity to carry out both
intertidal and subtidal sampling, using equipment that is routinely used
for both commercial and academic collections. Samples collected in the
field will be sorted and identified back in the laboratory giving
students a taste of the biodiversity found in British seas. The second
week of the course focuses on the identification of marine polychaetes
and amphipods, two of the most commonly encountered groups of benthic
invertebrates.
Participants are given the option of attending either or both weeks of
the summer school and there will also be the opportunity to learn
Seasearch dive survey techniques over the weekend. The summer school
will be held at the resource centre at the Marine Biological Association
of the UK where students will also have access to the National Marine
Biological Library and other MBA resources.
Please log on to our website for more detailed information and booking
details www.seasurvey.co.uk
Best Regards
Bryony
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Bryony Pearce BSc (Hons)
Research Director
Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd
3 Palace Yard Mews
Bath
BA1 2NH
Tel: 01225 442211
E.Mail: bryony from seasurvey.co.uk
www.seasurvey.co.uk
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