Helen Scales

Helen Scales is a British marine biologist, broadcaster, and writer.

Helen Scales learnt to scuba dive when she was 16 as part of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, and from this experience wanted to know more about life underwater.^[1]

She studied at St John's College, Cambridge as an undergraduate and holds an M.Sc. in Tropical Coastal Management from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Scales was awarded a Ph.D. from St John's College, Cambridge in 2005; her thesis title was Exploitation of coral reef fish for the live reef fish trade. This was particularly about the humphead wrasse. She was able to identify individual fish through the colour patterns on their heads after filming the fish underwater and so study their movement and behaviour.^[2][1]

Scales worked for several conservation organisations after gaining her doctorate including the World Wide Fund for Nature, TRAFFIC International, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and Natural England. She was later appointed as a tutor for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Her scientific interests and research focus on marine conservation and the inter-relations between people and oceans, particularly in the context of habitat protection and the international wildlife trade.^[2]

Her 2009 book Poseidon's Steed, on seahorses, was described by the reviewer for The Economist as "a fascinating book ... Scales ... explains the myth, biology and ecology of what the Victorians called 'queer fish'."^[3] while in National Geographic the reviewer called it "a compelling book about seahorses that makes the case not only for these odd fish but also for the entire ocean."^[4]

In October 2011, she appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. Her hypothetical donation to this fictional museum was a tank full of seahorses.^[5] In 2013 she spoke at a TEDx event, TEDxLSE, at the London School of Economics.^[6] In April 2018, she was a judge for the UK finals of the FameLab competition.^[7] In 2021 she was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific.^[1]

スケールズ氏は、科学出版物や本の章、一般向け科学書籍や雑誌記事の著者または共著者です。これには以下が含まれます。

• ポセイドンの馬：タツノオトシゴの物語、神話から現実へ（2009年、ゴッサムブックス、ISBN  9781592404742）
• 水中博物館：ジェイソン・デカイレス・テイラーの水中彫刻 / カルロ・マコーミックとヘレン・スケールズのエッセイ（2014年、クロニクル・ブックス、ISBN 9781452118871） 
• 時間の螺旋：貝殻の秘密の生活と不思議な余生（2015年、ブルームズベリーシグマ、ISBN 978-1472911360） 
• Eye of the Shoal: 魚観察者のための生命、海、そしてあらゆるものへのガイド(2018 年、Bloomsbury Sigma、ISBN 978-1472936837 ) 
• スケールズ、ヘレン（2019年3月21日）。タコ。イラスト：アラン・メイル。ロンドン：レディバード・ブックス。ISBN 978-0-7181-8909-9。
• スケールズ、ヘレン（2021年）。『The Brilliant Abyss 』 。ニューヨーク：アトランティック・マンスリー・プレス。ISBN 978-0-8021-5822-2。^[8]

• EP Green & H. Hendry (1999) CITES はサンゴの取引を監視するための効果的なツールか? Coral Reefs 18 403–407
• ヘレン・スケールズ、アンドリュー・バルムフォード、アンドレア・マニカ (2007) 「生きたサンゴ礁魚の取引がボルネオ島北部のサンゴ礁魚の個体数に与える影響」王立協会紀要 B 274 989–994

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