Dr NICOLA COUSINS
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Oceanlab,University of Aberdeen,Main Street, Newburgh,Scotland, U.K., AB41 6AA
Teaching fellow: marine biology
BSc PhD
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ECOMAR: www.oceanlab.abdn.ac.uk
Oceanlab: www.oceanlab.abdn.ac.uk
MAR-ECO project: www.mar-eco.no
HERMES project: www.eu-hermes.net
Scottish Federation of University Women - Aberdeenshire: www.sfuw-aberdeenshire.org.uk
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Biography
I am currently a Teaching Fellow based in the Zoology Department with a focus on teaching marine biology.
Prior to becoming a teaching fellow I was a post doctoral researcher on the ECOMAR project, based at Oceanlab. My research was focused on deep-sea demersal fish and also the scavenging fauna attracted to baited photographic landers. I completed my PhD thesis in 2006 on how environmental factors influence the abundance, distribution and species composition of deep-sea fish in the North Atlantic and Southern Indian oceans using a baited photographic lander (ROBIO). My work was part of the international Census of Marine Life, MAR-ECO, and HERMES research programmes.
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Research Interests
Ecology of scavenging and non-scavenging demersal deep-sea fish.
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Current Research
Ecology of scavenging and non-scavenging deep-sea demersal fish on the mid-Atlantic Ridge, North Atlantic Ocean.
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Collaborations
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Research Grants
Travel award. Society for Experimental Biology. ASLO "Water Rocks" Aquatic Sciences Conference. February 2007.
Highly commended photography prize. 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium. Featured in "Deep-Sea Wonders" Nature Vol. 442. July 2006.
Johnstone and Florence Stoney studentship. British Federation of Women Graduates. Personal award for academic excellence. September 2006.
Travel award. Fisheries Society of the British Isles. For attendance at Ocean Sciences 2006, 20-24th February 2006.
Researcher in Residence Science Communicator's Award. Royal Institution, London, 23rd September 2005.
Travel award. University of Aberdeen small grant fund. For attendance at 40th European Marine Biology Symposium. 21st – 25th August 2005.
Small grant. University of Aberdeen. "Population genetics of the abyssal grenadier, Coryphaenoides armatus."
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Teaching Responsibilities
Course co-ordinator and lecturer on Ocean Biology (BI25Z2)
Lecturer on Marine Ecology and Ecosystems (ZO3508)
Lecturer on Aquatic Biology, Conservation and Exploitation (ZO3809)
Lecturer on Marine Biology in Depth (ZO4803)
Lecturer on Abyssal and Hadal Environments (Z04536)
Lecturer on Science Communication (GE2502)
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External Responsibilities
Guest editor (along with Dr. David Bailey & Prof. Monty Priede): Marine Ecology Progress Series themed section "The role of scavengers in marine ecosystems". http://www.int-res.com/journals/meps/theme-sections/
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Other
Peer-reviewed book chapter
N.J. King and I.G. Priede (2008). Coryphaenoides armatus, the abyssal grenadier; global distribution, abundance and ecology as determined by baited landers. "Grenadiers of the world's oceans:Biology, Stock Assessment, And Fisheries". American Fisheries Society Symposium 63: 139-161
Non-peer reviewed articles
N.J. King, A.J. Jamieson, K. Kemp, P.M. Bagley and I.G. Priede (2004). Landing on the ridge. MAR-ECO, Newsletter. 1/2004.
A.J. Jamieson and N.J. King. (2003). Portraits of the deep-water shark. Marine Scientist. IMarEst Publications, No. 8 .
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Bergstad, OA., Clark, L., Øverbø Hansen, H. & Cousins, NJ. (2012). 'Distribution Population Biology and Trophic Ecology of the Deepwater Demersal Fish Halosauropsis macrochir (Pisces: Halosauridae) on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge'. PLoS one, vol 7, no. 2.
[Online] DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031493
[Online] AURA: Bergstad_etal_2012.pdf - Cousins, NJ. & Priede, IG. (2012). 'Abyssal demersal fish fauna composition in two contrasting productivity regions of the Crozet Plateau, Southern Indian Ocean'. Deep Sea Research Part I, vol 64, pp. 71-77.
[Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.02.003 - Wolff, G., Billett, DSM., Bett, BJ., Holtvoeth, J., FitzGeorge-Balfour, T., Fisher, E., Cross, I., Shannon, R., Salter, I., Boorman, B., Cousins, NJ., Jamieson, AJ. & Chaillan, F. (2011). 'The Effects of Natural Iron Fertilisation on Deep-Sea Ecology: The Crozet Plateau, Southern Indian Ocean'. PLoS one, vol 6, no. 6.
[Online] DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020697 - Buhl-Mortensen, L., Vanreusel, A., Gooday, AJ., Levin, LA., Priede, IG., Buhl-Mortensen, P., Gheerardyn, H., King, NJ. & Raes, M. (2010). 'Biological structures as a source of habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity on the deep ocean margins'. Marine Ecology, vol 31, no. 1, pp. 21-50.
[Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2010.00359.x - Priede, IG., Godbold, J., Cousins, NJ., Collins, M., Bailey, DM. & Gordon, JDM. (2010). 'Deep-sea demersal fish species richness in the Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic Ocean: global and regional patterns'. Marine Ecology, vol 31, no. 1, pp. 247-260.
[Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2009.00330.x - Andrey V. Gebruk, AV., Budaeva, NE. & King, NJ. (2010). 'Bathyal benthic fauna of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between the Azores and the Reykjanes Ridge'. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol 90, no. 1, pp. 1-14.
[Online] DOI: 10.1017/S0025315409991111 - King, NJ. & Priede, IG. (2008). 'Coryphaenoides armatus, the abyssal grenadier: Global distribution, abundance, and ecology as determined by baited landers'. American Fisheries Society Symposium, vol 63, pp. 139-161.
- Nielsen, JG., King, NJ. & Moller, PR. (2008). 'Rare abyssal, ophidiid fishes from off the Crozet Islands, Southern Ocean, with a new species of Apagesoma Carter, 1983'. Cybium, vol 32, no. 1, pp. 43-50.
- Møller, PR. & King, NJ. (2007). 'Two New Species of Pachycara (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) from the Sub-Antarctic Southern Indian Ocean, and a Range Extension of Lycenchelys Antarctica: ø'. Copeia, vol 2007, no. 3, pp. 586-593.
[Online] DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2007)2007[586:TNSOPT]2.0.CO;2 - Priede, IG., Froese, R., Bailey, DM., Bergstad, OA., Dyb, JE., Henriques, C., Jones, EG. & Cousins, NJ. (2006). 'The absence of sharks from abyssal regions of the world's oceans'. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol 273, no. 1592, pp. 1435-1441.
[Online] DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3461 - Heger, A., King, NJ., Ieno, EN., Bagley, PM. & Priede, IG. (2006). 'Profiles of pelagic bioluminescence on the mid-Atlantic ridge'. Luminescence, vol 21, no. 5, pp. 277-278.
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