Telephone:+44 (0)1631 559305;

  E-mail:Bhavani.Narayanaswamy @ sams.ac.uk

  Websites: www.eurocoml.org
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Scientific interests

• Deep-water ecology

• Diversity and community structure of macrofauna in soft sediments
• Influence of physical, chemical and geological factors on macrofaunal diversity
• Mega-infaunal behaviour in deep-water ecosystems
• Megafaunal and macrofaunal diversity and community structure on seamounts and banks

Current projects

• The European Census of Marine Life – A regional implementation committee for the international Census of Marine Life; A 10 year programme looking at what is known, unknown and unknowable in the world’s oceans (www.eurocoml.org)  The project is currently funded by the TOTAL Foundation and the Alfred Sloan Foundation
• Impact of the Geometry of Submarine Landscapes on Deep-Sea Biogeochemistry - NERC funded

• Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European Seas - EU FP7 funded

HERMIONE is designed to make a major advance in our knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services. SAMS will contribute to the seamount workpackage.

Upcoming Projects

• Benthic Biodiversity of seamounts in the southwest Indian Ocean - NERC funded

Teaching / supervising activities

Actively involved in lecturing to undergraduates on the UHI Millenium Institute BSc Marine Science    degree course. 

• Module leader for H2 Marine and Estuarine Systems
• Lecturer for H4 Deep-Sea Ecosystems, H4 Polar Seas

PhD supervisor

• Supervision of Kiara Burke (University of Aberdeen & SAMS - PhD student).  The Fate of Organic Matter in Marine Sediments: the role of macrofauna (2005 - 2010).
• Supervision of Evangelia Gontikaki (University of Aberdeen, SAMS, HCMR). The fate of phytodetritus pulses in subarctic and Mediterranean sediments (2006 - 2010).
• Supervision of Jaime Davies (UoP, SAMS, NOCS, BGS & JNCC - PhD student).

  Identification of areas of nature conservation importance in deep waters of the UK continental shelf, to contribute towards spatial planning and the development of an ecologically coherent network of MPAs in the North-East Atlantic (2007 - 2010).

Publications

• Narayanaswamy BE, Bett BJ & Hughes DJ (2010) Deep-water macrofaunal diversity in the Faroe-Shetland region (NE Atlantic): a margin subject to an unusual thermal regime. Marine Ecology Special Issue. 31: 237-246. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0485.2010.00360.x
• Howell KL, Davies JS & Narayanaswamy BE (2010) Identifying deep-sea megafaunal epibenthic assemblages for use in habitat mapping and marine protected area network design. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, pg 1-36. doi:10.1017/S0025315409991299
• Narayanaswamy BE, Bett BJ & Gage JD (2005) Ecology of bathyal polychaete fauna at an Arctic-Atlantic boundary (Faroe-Shetland Channel, North-east Atlantic). Marine Biology Research  1:  20-32
• Narayanaswamy BE & Blake JA (2005) A new species of Orbiniella (Polycahaeta: Orbiniidae) from deep basins of Antarctica. Journal Of The Marine Biological Association Of The United Kingdom  85(4):  843-846
• Blake JA & Narayanaswamy BE (2004) Benthic infaunal communities along deep-sea transects across the Weddell Sea and on the South Sandwich Slope, Antarctica Deep-Sea Research 51, 1797-1815
• Narayanaswamy BE, Nickell TD & Gage JD (2003) Appropriate levels of taxonomic discrimination in deep-sea studies: species vs family. Marine Ecology Progress Series 257. 59-68
• Bett BJ, Malzone GA, Narayanaswamy BE & Wigham BD (2001) Temporal variability in phytodetritus and megabenthic activity in the deep northeast Atlantic. Progress in Oceanography, 50, 349-368

Non-Refereed Papers

• Narayanaswamy BE (2010) Biodiversity in Antarctic Deep-Water. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK – Global Marine Environment 11: 32-33
• Narayanaswamy BE (2006) Antarctic Deep-Water Biodiversity. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK – Global Marine Environment 3: 12-13
•  Narayanaswamy BE & Doner SA (2006) Biodiversity patterns of deep-water macrofauna in the Antarctic. Berichte zur Polar und Meeresforschung. 533, 110-112
• Narayanaswamy BE (2005) ANDEEP - Antarctic Benthic Deep-Sea Biodiveristy - January 2005 Expedition. Challenger Wave
• Narayanaswamy BE (2004) Biodiversity patterns of deep-water macrofauna in the Antarctic. ANDEEP XXII/3 Booklet of Abstracts, 1
• Narayanaswamy BE & Gage JD (2003) Deep Sea Diversity - Exciting New Data from SAMS.  Challenger Wave, 1
• Narayanaswamy BE (2003) Patterns in diversity and controls on macrobenthic community structure, particularly Polychaeta.  Berichte zur Polar-und Meeresforschung. 470, 65.
• Brandt A, Hilbig B, Blake J, Ellingsen KE & Narayanaswamy BE (2003) Introduction to work at sea.  Berichte zur Polar-und Meeresforschung. 470, 62-63.

Books

• Baker M, Ebbe B, Hoyer J, Menot L, Narayanaswamy BE, Ramirez-Llodra E & Steffensen M (Author/Editor list arranged in alphabetical order) (2007). Deeper than Light 85pp. Bergen Museum (available in English, French, German, Spanish and Norwegian - click here to buy online)

Reports

• Howell K, Davies JS, Hughes DJ & Narayanaswamy BE (2007) Strategic Environmental Assessment / Special Area for Conservation. pp 82. Report to DTI and JNCC
• Narayanaswamy BE, Howell KL, Hughes DJ, Davies JS, Roberts JM & Black KD (2006) Strategic Environmental Assessment Area 7 - Photographic Analysis. pp178; Appendix 380
• Davies AJ, Narayanaswamy BE, Hughes DJ & Roberts JM (2006) An introduction to the Benthic Ecology of the Rockall - Hatton Area (SEA 7) - Report for the DTI. 1-94
• Howell K, Davies JS, Jacobs C & Narayanaswamy BE (2006) Broadscale Survey of the Habitats of Rockall Bank, and mapping of Annex I 'Reef' Habitat. JNCC Report,1-88
• Narayanaswamy BE  (2003) SEA4 Report - Temporal variability in benthic populations from the Faroe-Shetland Channel.  Report to Geotek Ltd. 1-35
• Hughes JA, Narayanaswamy BE & Bett BJ (2003) SEA 4: An overview of the benthic ecology of the Faroe-Shetland Channel. DTI - Strategic Environmental Assessment  4: 22-84

Cruise Reports

• Narayanaswamy BE (2005) DTI Strategic Environmental Assessment Area 7 (SEA7) Survey - August. pp 28.

Newsletters

• Narayanaswamy BE (2005) European Census of Marine Life comes to SAMS. SAMS Newsletter, 1
• Narayanaswamy BE & Howe JA (2005) Cool Adventures - An expedition to assess diversity of Antarctic deep-water fauna. SAMS Newsletter, 2

Other

• Narayanaswamy BE (2005) The European Census of Marine Life. Parliament Magazine European Politics and Policy, 1

Exhibition

• Deep-Sea Life Exhibition in conjunction with the Deeper than Light Exhibition. Now being shown at the Sminthsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Educational and career history

Educational History:

• PhD University of Southampton (1998 – 2001). Thesis title Macrofaunal Ecology of the West Shetland Slope.
• BSc. (Joint Hons) Marine Biology and Oceanography, University of Wales – Bangor (1994 - 1997)

Career History:

• 2004: Benthic Taxonomist – SEAS Ltd, UK
• 2003: Research Fellow – University of Massachusetts – Boston, USA
• 2002 - 2003: Post Doctoral Research Associate – Scottish Association for Marine Science, UK
• 2001: Benthic Taxonomist – SEAS Ltd, UK
• 1995: Research Assistant – National Oceanography Centre Southampton (previously SOC), UK
• 1993 - 1994:  Research Assistant – George Deacon Division in IOSDL
  

Other (e.g. measures of esteem)

• CoML Award for "Building partnership and collaboration within the CoML community."
• Member of the 11^th International Deep-sea symposium organising committee
• Reviewer for Census of Marine Life grants submitted to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Lead scientist on the SEA 7 research cruise (2005) to the seamounts and banks