Dr Alan Jamieson
Post Doc Research Fellow (Permanent), Research Manager of HADEEP (UK)
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Personal Details
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Biography
I began in Oceanlab as mechanical technician after completing an honours degree in industrial design from the Robert Gordon University. During my time as a technician I completed a part-time PhD in lander related technology entitled 'Autonomous lander technology for biological research at mid-water, abyssal and hadal depths'. I then went on to do complete two post doc positions:
The EU funded COBO project (June 2004 – Feb 2006), which entailed the design and construction of deep-sea Sediment Profile Imaging camera (SPI) and then the EU funded KM3NeT Project (June. 2006- October 2008), which entailed bioluminescence surveys in potential deep-sea neutrino telescope sites in the Mediterranean Sea.
I currently hold a permanent position as Post Doc (October 2008- present). My research interests are split between science and technology in the study of deep-sea biology, in particular I am the Research manager of the UK side of the HADEEP project which studies life in the deepest parts of the ocean: the Hadal Zone (6km to 11km deep).
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Research Interests
I am involved primarily in the HADEEP project which rather conveniently incorprates both biology and technology. HADEEP is jointly funded by NERC (UK) and the Nippon Foundation (Japan). Myself and others at Oceanlab spend our time exploring the hadal trenches of the Pacific Ocean using two baited landers rated to 12,000m deep.
To date we have deployed our landers in the Japan and Izu-Bonin (Ogasawara) trenches between 7000m and 9300m, in the Kermadec and Tonga Trenches between 6000m and 10,000m and on the edge of the Maraianas Trench at 5500m. Some of the results are shown below and check out some of these:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7655358.stm (BBC)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081007-deepest-fish.html (National Geographic)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14889-worlds-deepest-living-fish-caught-on-film.html (New Scientist)
Images from the Hadal-Landers: (a-b) Still images of a decapod and a rat-tail from Hadal-Lander B from 5500m in the Marianas Trench. (c-d) The decapods Benthesicymus crenatus and Acanthephyra sp. from ~7000m in the Kermadec Trench. (e) swarms of the amphipod Hirondellea dubia from 10,000m in the Tonga Trench. (f) the first and only live footage of the snailfish Notoliparis kermadecensis from 7000m in the Kermadec Trench. (g) the deepest rat-tail (Coryphaenoides yaquinae; Macrouridae) ever found, 7100, Japan Trench. (h) the first live footage of the snailfish Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis (Liparidae), 7100m, Japan Trench. (i) The deepest fish ever filmed alive, 7703m, Japan Trench (P. amblystomopsis).
To read more about the HADEEP project (and read the cruise blogs) go to http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/ and click on 'blogs and opinions' and look for 'Beyond the Abyss' and 'Beyond the Abyss: The Return'. (next blog expected November 2009).
My others areas of interest is underwater technology for deep-sea biological research, mainly autonomous baited landers, sediment profile imaging (SPI), benthic and pelagic bioluminescence and ROV deployed systems for biogeochemical studies.
Some shallower baited camera images from ~1800m on the Angolan Margin. Close ups of (L to R) an ophidiid, a macrourid and a Chimaera. These images were taken by the ROBIO Lander.
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Selected Publications
Jamieson, AJ, Bryden, H.L., Fujii, T. & Priede, I.G. (Submitted) In situ temperature and potential temperature of the West Pacific hadal trenches. Deep-Sea Research I
Fujii, T, Jamieson, AJ, Solan, M, Bagley, PM & Priede, IG (Submitted) A large aggregation of liparids (Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis) at 7703 m depth and a reappraisal of the abundance and diversity of hadal fish. BioScience
Jamieson, AJ, Fujii, T, Solan, M. & Priede, IG (In press) HADEEP: Free-falling landers to the deepest places on Earth. Marine Technology Society Journal
Jamieson, AJ, Fujii, T, Mayor, DJ, Solan, M. & Priede, IG (In press) Hadal Trenches: the ecology of the deepest places on Earth. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Jamieson, AJ, Solan, M., Fujii, T. (2009) Imaging deep-sea life beyond the abyssal zone. Sea Technology 50 (3) 41-46
Jamieson, AJ, Fujii, T, Solan, M., Matsumoto, AK, Bagley, PM & Priede, IG (2009) First findings of decapod crustacea in the hadal-zone. Deep-Sea Research Part 1 56: 641-647
Jamieson, AJ, Fujii, T, Solan, M., Matsumoto, AK, Bagley, PM & Priede, IG (2009) Liparid and Macrourid fishes of the hadal zone: In situ observations of activity and feeding behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society Part B. 276: 1037-1045
Craig J, Jamieson AJ, Heger A, Priede I G (2009) Distribution of bioluminescent organisms in the Mediterranean Sea and predicted effects on a deep-sea neutrino telescope. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 602: 224-226
Priede, IG, Jamieson, AJ, Heger, A, Craig, J & Zuur, AF (2008) The potential influence of bioluminescence from marine animals on a deep-sea underwater neutrino telescope array in the Mediterranean sea. Deep Sea Research Part 1 55: 1474-1483
King N.J., A.J. Jamieson, P.M. Bagley and I.G. Priede (2008) Deep-sea scavenging demersal fish fauna of the Nazaré Canyon system, Iberian coast, Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Fish Biology, 72, 1804–1814.
Kemp, K.M., Jamieson, A.J., Bagley, P.M., Collins, M.A., Priede, I.G. (2008). A new technique for sequential periodic bait-release at a camera platform in the deep sea; trial at 3664m depth in the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Deep Sea Research I. 55(1-2) 218-228
Worall, M.G., Jamieson, A.J., Holford, A.E., Neilson, R.D., Player, M.A., Bagley, P.M. (2007) A variable buoyancy system for deep ocean vehicles, Oceans 2007 – Europe 1-6, ISBN: 978-1-4244-0635-7
Heger, A., N.J. King, B.D. Wigham, A.J. Jamieson, P.M. Bagley, I.G. Priede, O. Pfannkuche (2007). Bioluminescent aggregations of Vargula norvegica (Ostracoda) at artificial food falls at 1000m depth in carbonate mound provinces of the NE Atlantic. Marine Biology. 151 (4): 1471-1478
Gillibrand, E.J.V., A.J. Jamieson, P.M. Bagley, A.F. Zuur & I.G. Priede (2007). Seasonal development of a deep pelagic bioluminescent layer in the temperate northeast Atlantic Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 341: 37-44
Bailey D.M., H.-J. Wagner, A. J. Jamieson, M.F. Ross and I.G. Priede. (2007) A taste of the deep-sea: the roles of olfactory, gustatory and tactile searching behaviour by the deep-sea grenadier fish Coryphaenoides armatus.Deep Sea Research 1 54; 99-108
Jamieson A.J., O.R. Godø, P.M. Bagley, J.C. Partridge, and I.G. Priede. (2006) Illumination of trawl gear by mechanically stimulated bioluminescence. Fisheries Research 81; 276-282
Gillibrand EJV, Bagley P, Jamieson A, Herring PJ, Partridge JC, Collins MA, Milne R, Priede IG (2006) Deep Sea Benthic Bioluminescence at Artificial Food falls, 1000 to 4800m depth, in the Porcupine Seabight and Abyssal Plain, North East Atlantic Ocean. Marine Biology 149: doi: 10.1007/s00227-006-0407-0
Jamieson A.J., D.M. Bailey, H.-J. Wagner, P.M. Bagley, I.G. Priede (2006) Behavioural responses to structures on the seafloor by the deep-sea fish Coryphaenoides armatus: Implications for the use of baited landers. Deep Sea Research 1. (53) 1157-1166
Kemp, K.M., Jamieson, A.J., Bagley, P.M., McGrath, H., Bailey, D.M., Collins, M.A., and Priede, I.G. (2006). Consumption of a large bathyal food fall, a six month study in the north-east Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series. Vol 310; 65-76
Jamieson A.J. and P.M. Bagley (2005). The ROBIO and DOBO landers: Deep-sea biodiversity surveys in areas of anthropogenic activity. Sea Technology. Vol. 46 (1), 54-57
Bailey, D.M., P. M. Bagley, A. J. Jamieson, A. Cromarty, M. A. Collins, A. Tselepidis and I. G. Priede. (2005) Life in a warm deep sea: routine activity and burst swimming performance of the shrimp Acanthephyra eximia in the abyssal Mediterranean. Marine Biology. (146) 1199-1206.
Bailey D.M., B. Genard, M.A. Collins, J.-F. Rees, S.K. Unsworth, E.J.V. Battle, P.M. Bagley, A.J. Jamieson, I.G. Priede. (2005). High swimming and metabolic activity in the deep-sea eel Synaphobranchus kaupii revealed by integrated in situ and in vitro measurements. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 78: 335-346.
Bagley P.M., I.G. Priede, A.J. Jamieson, D.M. Bailey, E.G. Battle, C. Henriques, and K.M. Kemp (2005). Lander techniques for deep ocean biological research. Underwater Technology. 26 No.1. pp3-11
Bailey, D.M., P.M. Bagley, A.J. Jamieson, M.A. Collins and I.G. Priede. (2003) In situ investigation of burst swimming and muscle performance in the deep-sea fish Antimora rostrata (Günther, 1878), Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology, 285-286: 295-311
Bailey, D.M., A.J. Jamieson, P.M. Bagley, M.A. Collins and I.G. Priede. (2002) Measurement of in situ oxygen consumption of deep-sea fish using an autonomous lander vehicle, Deep-Sea Research, 49: 1519-1529
Patents
Bagley, P.M., A.J. Jamieson and M. Player (2003). A buoyancy control system. Patent application No.0319812.4. Filed 22-AUG-03, Ablett and Stebbing, London, UK.
Popular Magazine Articles
Jamieson, A.J. (2009). The search for life at extreme depths. The Bulletin. Marine Ecology: Special issue. British Ecological society, March 2009
Jamieson, A.J. (2007). Deep-pelagic bioluminescence in the Mediterranean. HERMES Newsletter, (8): 11
Jamieson, A.J., (2007) Lighting up the deep. Marine Scientist, No. 19, 16-19.
Jamieson, A.J., M. Solan and D. Mayor (2006) Spying on the seafloor. Marine Scientist, No. 17, 36.
Jamieson, A.J. (2006) Deep-sea fish: How researchers are tackling the challenge of decompression. Ocean Challenge Magazine. Vol. 14, No. 2: 19-23
Jamieson, A.J. and N.J. King (2004). Portraits of the deep-water shark. Marine Scientist, No. 8, 26-28
King, N.J., Jamieson, A.J. , Kemp, K.M., Bagley, P.M. and Priede, I.G. (2004). Landing on the ridge. Mar-Eco, Newsletter. 1/2004.
Jamieson, A.J. (2003) The observer has landed: Lander techniques for the study of deep-sea megafauna. Marine Scientist, (4) 52-53
Jamieson, A.J. (2003) 'A frightening amount of data': Review of the 6th underwater science symposium: monitoring and measuring the underwater environment (SUT). Marine Scientist, No 3, 44-45
Research cruises:
1. RRS DiscoveryD252 (UK) NE Atlantic - 2001
2. RRS Discovery D255 (UK) NE Atlantic -2001
3. RRS Discovery D260 (UK) NE Atlantic - 2002
4. RV Philia (Greece) E. Mediterranean - 2002
5. RRS Discovery D266 (UK) NE Atlantic - 2002
6. RV Johan Hjort (Norway) Norwegian Fjords - 2002
7. GG9 (France) W. Mediterranean - 2004
8. FS Meteor M61-1 (Germany) NE Atlantic - 2004
9. GG9 (France) W. Mediterranean - 2004
10. Veracious II (UK) North Sea - 2004
11. RRS Discovery D285T (UK) NE Atlantic - 2004
12. RV G.O. Sars (Norway) Norwegian Fjords - 2004
13. RV New Horizon (USA) NE Pacific - 2005
14. FRV Scotia (UK) North Sea - 2005
15. Helsingør harbour (Denmark) - 2005
16. RRS Discovery D297 (UK) NE Atlantic - 2005
17. RV Thompson TN187 (USA) NE Pacific [w/ JASON2 ROV] - 2005
18. RRS Discovery D300 (USA) Southern Ocean- 2005/06
19. RV Seol Mara (UK) Loch Creran, UK - 2006
20. Crest (UK) (Shetland, UK - 2006
21. RV Seol Mara / Calanus (UK) Loch Creran, UK -2006
22. FRV Scotia 1406S (UK) NE Atlantic - 2006
23. FS Meteor M70-1 (Germany) E/W Mediterranean [w/Quest ROV] - 2006
24. RV Aegaeo (Greece) E. Mediterranean -2007
25. RRS James Cook 10 leg 2 (UK) NE Atlantic [w/ ISIS ROV] - 2007
26. FS Sonne 194 (Germany) SW Pacific - 2007
27. RV Hakuho-Maru KH-07-3 (Japan) NW Pacific - 2007
28. RV Kairei KR-07-16 (Japan) NW Pacific - 2007
29. RV Sea Trident (UK) SE Atlantic - 2008
30. RV Lydia (Greece) E. Mediterranean - 2008
31. RV Hakuho-Maru KH-08-01 (Japan) NW Pacific -2008
32. RV Philia (Greece) E. Mediterranean [w/MAX ROV] - 2008
33. RV Tansei-Maru KT-09-02 (Japan) NW Pacific - 2009
34. RRS James Cook JC36 (UK) NE Atlantic [w/ISIS ROV] - 2009
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