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Despite the fact that he grew up living and working on the water, David had little interaction with cephalopods until 2009 when he caught an octopus hatchling in one of his Stonecrab traps. Being that he was a long time aquarist and a fascinated with most anything that come from the sea, he...
Colin is a Countryside Ranger with a background in Applied Biological Sciences and joined the TONMO.com staff in March 2002. Based in one of the UK's largest country parks he is responsible for the care, conservation and management of many natural waterways, woodlands, bogs and forests across...
Salt and Freshwater hobbiest for over 25 years, with many years experience in the Pet Trade from petshops to shelters to rehabilitation of wildlife. Favorite activity besides watching the Octo at the moment and photography, is exploring with my daughter Jess!
At age 10, fell in love with GPO in Monterey Bay Aquarium. Convinced parents to permit salt-water aquarium in home, kept pet octopuses (Serendipity and Rex). Learned to scuba dive to see wild octopuses. Studied pygmy octos in Santa Barbara and Humboldt squid in Monterey and Mexico. PhD thesis...
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I am a Senior Lecturer at a Scottish University with a specialism in film and philosophy. I have lived and worked in the UK, Australia, the US and China in my life and am the co-author of The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulhumedia with William Brown...
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Nancy has an interest in all things cephy but especially octopus behavior. She maintains two saltwater aquariums and has kept O. bimaculoides and O. briareus as well as many other invertebrates. She joined the TONMO.com staff in March 2002 with a background in management, editing and technical...
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Phil joined the TONMO.com staff in April 2003. He collects fossils as a hobby, frequently plundering a quarry at Folkestone in the U.K. He has a degree in British archaeology and works for a government department at Dover in England.
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Steve is an expert in the systematics and biogeography of cephalopods, and joined the TONMO.com staff in June 2002. He can be seen on the Discovery Channel documentary, Chasing Giants: On the Trail of the Giant Squid. For more information, see his Autobiography and Select Bibliography (2003)...
Richard currently works as an Aquatic Biologist at the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences, maintaining many exhibits including the 212,000 gallon Phipipine Coral Reef. He has kept saltwater animals for over 25 years, and has worked in aquarium maintenance, retail, wholesale...
Kat joined the TONMO.com staff in November 2002. She completed her PhD thesis (Systematics of the Squid Family Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847) and graduated in 2008 from the EOS Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand). She is now a Research Fellow in EOS, and also works...
Tony converted TONMO.com into an octopus and cephalopod interest site in May 2000. (Find out more about how TONMO started by reading this blog entry.) He began his career in the online services industry in 1992, working for companies such as Prodigy, iVillage.com, Reuters and Comcast. Tony and...
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