Edward B. Cutler's
RESEARCH & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

I am in the process of converting a few of my 'working database files' (e.g. station data on 5000 records of identified sipunculans & location and condition of over 500 putative Type specimens) into archives that can be transferred electronically. These are in dBase III Plus format and will be placed here as they are cleaned up. In the meantime if you have questions cantact me at CutlerEB@aol.com

The current list of taxa from Phylum to subgenus can be seen at Sipuncula Classification. For all taxa, to the species level, including authors and junior synonyms, see Sipuncula Taxa.

Activities

  • 1963 - Arctic Research Lab. (ONR) Pt. Barrow, Alaska, 5 weeks dredging for pogonophorans with A. & E. Southward of Plymouth, UK.
  • 1964 - International Indian Ocean Expedition. 6 weeks on R/V Anton Bruun dredging deep sea invertebrates and 5 weeks at ORSTOM lab, Nosy Be, Madagascar, collecting sipunculans.
  • 1965 - R/V Chain, six days with H. Sanders' group, Woods Hole Ocean. Inst. dredging deep sea benthos (Gay Head > Bermuda).
  • 1966 - 1977 - R/V Eastward, Duke Univ. Coop. Oceanographic Program, six 4-6 day cruises; collecting benthic invertebrates off the Carolinas, concentrating on continental slope fauna.
  • 1975 - Duke Univ. Marine Lab., Beaufort, NC, Sabbatical leave, Jan.-July. Taxonomic work on Sipuncula. About 12,000 worms examined and identified.
  • 1976 - England and Europe for six weeks, working at MBAUK, Plymouth, and CENTOB in Brest plus working visits to museums in Paris, London, and Amsterdam.
  • 1979 - Univ. of Tokyo, Misaki Marine Lab., and National Science Museum plus shorter trips to Tohoku Univ. and
  • collecting sites on Honshu, Kyushu, Amamioshima, and Okinawa. Seven month study of the systematics of Sipuncula originally described from Japan.
  • 1981 - Europe; six week tour of 12 museums studying type material and other reference specimens of Sipuncula for revisionary work.
  • 1984 - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard. Sabbatical leave as Visiting Scholar. Identified 9,000 sipunculans from deep-water Atlantic collections, and revised one genus.
  • 1984 - (summer) - Ten day working visit at Zoological Institute, Academy of Science USSR, Leningrad; working with G. Murina on status of her specimens and studying reference and type material. Also conferred with A. V. Ivanov about recent advances in pogonophoran biology. On return spent one week at MBA-UK, Plymouth conferring with P. Gibbs.
  • 1985 - (summer) - Three weeks collecting intertidal sipunculans from various locations in Hawaii plus several days collecting around Bodega Bay, California.
  • 1987 - Two week collecting trip to central California.
  • 1988 - Three week collecting trip to Curacao and Venezuela coral habitats.
  • 1989-present - Visiting Scholar / Museum Associate at Harvard.
  • 1991 - One week collecting trip to Costa Rica's Pacific coast.

Invited Symposia:

 

1970 - International Symposium on the Biology of the Sipuncula & Echiura; Kotor, Yugoslavia. Presented two papers

 

1973 - International Conference on the Phylogeny and Systematic Position of the Pogonophora; Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

1976 - Refresher course on lesser-known invertebrate taxa, Amer. Soc. Zool., New Orleans. Session on Pogonophora.

 

1979 - Deep-Sea Ecology at AAAS meetings, Houston, Texas; Paper on Zoogeography of the Atlantic Ocean bathyl region.

 

1981 - Deep-Sea Biologists, Scripps Inst. Ocean., La Jolla, CA

 

Seminars presented at:

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Dalhousie University, Duke Univ. Marine Lab., The Laboratory, Mar. Biol. Assoc.-UK, Centre Oceanologique de Bretagne, Univ. of Tokyo.

Shipboard Experience:

About 110 days on ten different research vessels ranging in size from large (Chain and Anton Bruun) to small (35 ft. boats Tokyo and Pt. Barrow). Most of the time as Chief Scientist was on board the R/V Eastward. This ship work has been performed in the Pacific, Arctic, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

Intertidal Work:

Collections of marine invertebrates made along the U.S. East Coast, but more intensive collecting conducted in Madagascar, several locations in Japan, Guam, Eastern Caroline, Marshall, and Hawaiian Islands, central and northern California, and coral habitats in Curacao, Venezuela and Costa Rica.

Zoological Museums worked at:

Zoological Museums in the following places: Amsterdam, Bergen, East Berlin, Cambridge England, Cambridge Mass., Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Honolulu (Bishop), Kyoto, Leningrad (Zool. Inst. Acad. of Sci. USSR), London, Monaco, New Haven (Yale), New York (AMNH), Oxford, Paris, Santa Barbara, Sendai, Stockholm, Tokyo (Univ. & Nat. Sci.), Washington, D.C. (USNM).

Marine Laboratories Visited:

CENTOB, Brest, France; Carmabi Foundation, Curacao; Dalhousie Univ.; Fundacion Cientifica Las Roques, Venezuela; Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K.; Ochanomizu Univ; Office of Naval Res., Pt. Barrow; Scottish Mar. Biol. Assoc,; Univ. of Bergen; Univ. of Calif., Davis & Santa Cruz; Univ. Costa Rica; Univ. of Guam; Univ. of Hamburg; Univ. of Hiroshima; Moss Landing (Cal. State); Univ. of Ryukyus; Stanford; Univ. of Tokyo; Univ. de Oriente, Venzuela; Univ. of Washington; Virginia Inst. of Mar. Sci,; Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

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