Staff Profile James Turner
Digital Imaging and Access Officer
Contact Details
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP
Phone: +44 (0)29 2057 3135
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Qualifications, memberships and relevant positions
BSc.(Hons) Biological Imaging.
Research Interests
The application of new imaging techniques within natural science research and collections, and the implementation of large scale digitisation workflows. I also have interests in the taxonomy of deep sea bivalves of the Protobranchia group from the North East Atlantic and the biodiversity and systematics of the British slug fauna.
Keywords
Scientific digital imaging, photomicroscopy, 3D scanning (structured light, laser, photogrammetry), bioinformatics, scanning electron microscopy, database development, website development, taxonomy, systematics.Links
Selected Publications
Jüttner I., Bennion H., Carter C., Cox E.J., Ector L., Flower R., Jones V., Kelly M.G., Mann D.G., Sayer C., Turner, J. A., Williams D.M. 2019. Freshwater Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland. Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. Available online at https://naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk/diatoms.
Rowson B., Ablett J., Gallichan J., Holmes A. M., Oliver P. G., Salvador A., Turner J. A., Wood H., Brown C., Gordon D., Hunter T., Machin R., Morgenroth H., Reilly, M. Petts R. & Sutcliffe R. 2018. Mollusca Types in Great Britain. Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales / Natural History Museum. Available online at https://gbmolluscatypes.ac.uk
Rowson, B., Turner, J.A., Anderson, R., & Symondson, W.O.C. 2014. Slugs of Britain and Ireland: identification, understanding and control. Field Studies Council, Shropshire, UK, 140 pp.
Rowson, B., Anderson, R., Turner, J.A., & Symondson, W. O. C. 2014. The Slugs of Britain and Ireland: undetected and undescribed species increase a well-studied, economically important fauna by more than 20%. PLOS One,9 (3) e91907. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0091907
Wood, H. & Turner, J.A. 2012. Mollusca Types Catalogue. Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales.
Oliver, P.G., Holmes, A.M., Killeen, I.J. & Turner, J.A. 2010. Marine Bivalve Shells of the British Isles (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Available online at http://naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk/britishbivalves.
Wilson, M. R. & Turner, J. A. 2010. Order Hemiptera: Key to families of Auchenorrhyncha from the Arabian Peninsula. pp. 113-125. In: Van Harten. A (Ed.) 2010 Arthropod Fauna of the United Arab Emirates Vol. 3. 700pp
Mackie, A.S.Y., Darbyshire,T., Bamber, R.N. & Turner, J.A. 2010. Notes on new benthic invertebrates from the southern Irish Sea. Porcupine Marine Natural History Society Newsletter, 27, 24-27.
Killeen, I. J & Turner J.A 2009. Yoldiella and Portlandia (bivalvia) from the Faroe-Shetland channel and rockall trough, northeast Atlantic. Journal of Conchology 02/2009; 39(6):733-778.
Wilson, M. R., Turner, J. A. & McKamey, S. H. 2009. Sharpshooter Leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellinae) An Illustrated Checklist Part 1: Old World Cicadellini. – Studies in Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity and Sytematics from the National Museum Wales. BIOTIR Reports 4: 229pp.
Turner, J. A. 2008 Digital imaging of micro bivalves. 01/2008; 1., DOI:10.11646/zoosymposia.1.1.7
Mortimer, K., Turner, J. & Wilson, H. 2007. Outer Bristol Channel Marine Habitat Study (
Wilson, M. R. & Turner, J. A. 2007. Progress in the study of sharpshooter leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) over 150 years: Monographs, museums and individuals. 01/2007; 150(2):289-303., DOI:10.1163/22119434-900000231