Helen Scales

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

Helen Scales describing molluscs at the 2015 Cambridge Science Festival

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'."[1] 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."[2]

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. She also studied at St John's as an undergraduate and holds an M.Sc in Tropical Coastal Management from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.[3]

Scales is a tutor for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.[3]

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.[4] In 2013 she spoke at a TEDx event, TEDxLSE, at the London School of Economics.[5]

In April 2018, she was a judge for the UK finals of the FameLab competition.[6]


Selected publications
  • Poseidon's steed : the story of seahorses, from myth to reality (2009, Gotham Books, ISBN 9781592404742)
  • The underwater museum : the submerged sculptures of Jason deCaires Taylor / essays by Carlo McCormick and Helen Scales (2014, Chronicle Books, ISBN 9781452118871)
  • Spirals in Time: the secret life and curious afterlife of seashells (2015, Bloomsbury Sigma, ISBN 978-1472911360)
  • Scales, Helen (21 March 2019). Octopuses. illus. Alan Male. London: Ladybird Books. ISBN 978-0-7181-8909-9.

References
  1. "How Odd, How Lovely". The Economist. 10 September 2009. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  2. Braun, David (13 September 2009). "Seahorses: Myth and Reality of an Odd Fish". National Geographic. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  3. "Dr Helen Scales". University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  4. "Gallery Four". The Museum of Curiosity. QI. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  5. "Stories from the Ocean: Helen Scales at TEDxLSE". TED. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  6. FameLab UK Finals 2018.



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