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CURRICULUM VITAE                                             

Name: Arne Redsted Rasmussen  Born: 28 April 1959, married, 2 children, citizen of Denmark

Education and employment:

·         High school, Sankt Jørgens Gymnasium 1979

·         Cand. Scient in biology at University of Copenhagen 1988

·         Grant from The Danish Research Academy to prepare Ph.D. study 1989

·         Course in epidemiology at Panum Institute, Copenhagen 1991

·         Ph.D. in Zoology at Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen 1992    

·         Postdoctoral grant from The Danish Research Council in The Australian Museum,

          Sydney 1993

·         FAO-contract, producing a chapter to Western Central Pacific identification guide for

          fishery purposes 1994

·         Teaching at University of Copenhagen in “Form og Funktion” and Zoological

          Morphology 1995

·         Postdoctoral grant from Danida (RUF) 1996-1998 (2 years)

·         Postdoctoral grant from Carlsbergfoundation 1998-2000 (2 years)

·         Employed by The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Conservation 2000- 

 

Expeditions:

·         Scandinavian course in marine biology in North Sea (ship: Håkon Mosby, Bergen)

          1984

·         Research and collection trips to Phuket Marine Biological Center, Thailand 1985,

          1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001

·         Research and collection trips to Koh Si Chang Marine Biological Station (Gulf of

          Thailand) 1989 and Song Khlar (Gulf of Thailand) 1990

·         Research and collection trip along the Gulf of Thailand and on the west coast of

          peninsular Thailand from Ranong to Satun 1990

·         Research and collection trip to Bahrain (Persian Gulf) 1990

·         Research and collection trip to Bangladesh (Bay of Bengal) 1990

·         Research and collection trip to Great Barrier Reef, Queensland 1993

·         Research trip to Sri Lanka 1995

·         Research trip to India 1996

·         Research and collection trip to Manado and Ujung Pandang (Sulawesi) 1996 and

          1997

·         Research and collection trip to Viet Nam, Cambodia and Thailand 2000 and 2001

·         Research and collection trip to Vietnam 2004

·         Research and collection trip to Borneo 2005

 

Congress and Museum visits:

·         Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Schweiz, research on type specimens on the '

          genus Hydrophis 1986

·         The Natural History Museum, London, research on type specimens 1986, 1991, 1995

          and 1996

·         1st World Congress of Herpetology in Canterbury, England 1989

·         Congress of herpetology in Budapest 1991

·         Symposium on anti-parasite drugs August Krogh Institute, 1992

·         Australian Museum, Sydney (post-doc), research on elapids 1993

·         2nd World Congress of Herpetology in Adelaide, Australia 1993-1994

·         The Natural History Museum in Colombo, Sri Lanka February 1995

·         The Zoological Institute in Sankt Petersborg, Russia May 1995

·         The Zoological Reference Collection (Raffels Museum) in Singapore May 1996

·         3th world Congress of Herpetology in Prague 1997

·         Conference on Coastal Areas in developing countries, Aarhus 1997

·         Conference on Biodiversity and Development, Eigtveds Pakhus, Copenhagen 1998

·         The Natural History Museum, London, supported by European Union’s Training

          and Mobility of Researchers programme January-February (3 weeks) 1999

·         Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle, Paris, supported by European Union´s Training

          and Morbility of Researchers programme February (2 Weeks) 2000

·         Meeting of Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SHE), Zalec, Slovenia July 2001

·         The Natural Museum of Thailand, Bangkok 2001

·         Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin Museum Für Naturkunde (1 week) 2002

·         Leiden Natural History Museum, University of Leiden 2003

·         The Natural History Museum, London 2004

·         The Thulalongkorn University, Bangkok 2004

·         The Reed Cross Snake farm in Bangkok, 2004

.        Meeting of Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SHE) Bonn, Germany 2005

 

Invited speaker to:

·         Herpetological Society of Sydney, Australia; May 1993

·         Herpetological Society of Umeaa, Sweden; May 1994

·         Symposium: Venomous Snakes: Ecology, evolution and snakebite, at the Zoological

          Society of London, London Zoo; 27 & 28 April 1995

·         Symposium: “Herpetologi”, at the “Hemvärnsgården och Ekologihuset”, Lund

          Sweden; September 1995, 1997

·         Biodiversity in Asia: Challenges and opportunities for the scientific community,

          Thailand 1996

.          Invited Concept Paper to conference on Biodiversity and Development, Eigtveds

           Pakhus, Copenhagen 1998

·         Danmarks Naturfrednings Forening Borup, Hillerød and Viby Sjælland 1997-1999

·         Risø, Denmark 1999

·         The Natural History Museum, London, 1999

·         Introduction to biology for coming students at Copenhagen University, 1999, 2000

·         Secondary adaptation to life in water, Geological Museum, University of

          Copenhagen, 1999

·         Bellacenter-Danish Medical week , Snake bite 2001

·         The Danida sea snake project , P.M.B.C. Thailand , 2001

·         Roskilde University Center 2002

·         Tropical Medicin  2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004

·         Lund University  Herpetological meeting 2005

 

 

Research involvements:

·         DANIDA (RUF) - project, producing a monograph on sea snakes in cooperation with

          scientists from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and England

·         Cooperation with Dr. Colin McCarthy (UK) on the Hydrophis nigrocinctus-complex

·         Cooperation with Dr. M.D. Jesper Norup Nielsen (DK) on snake bites

·         Cooperation with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhme and Mark A. Auliya on a new

          freshwater sea snake species

·         Cooperation with Dr. Ivan Ineich on problematic sea snake species from New

          Caledonia

·         Serum production using Enhydrina schistose  with scientists from Asia 2001-

·         Using DNA from old collection with Peter Gravlund

·         Decalcification  in Natural History collections with K.M. Grekersen  and J Bredal-

          Jørgensen

 

 

Other involvement:

·         External supervisor for Endang Triwahyuni (Master stud.) Hasanuddin University,

          Indonesia

·         External supervisor for Somchai Bussarawit (Ph.D. stud.) Phuket Marine Biological

          Centre, Thailand

·         Invited to nominate candidates for the 1997-2000 Kyoto Prizes (Fifty million yen)

·         Chairman of “the Sea Snake Working Group” a cross-disciplinary group working with

          sea snakes

·         Arranged in co-operation with Mogens Andersen a sea snake exhibition at the

          Zoological

          Museum, University of Copenhagen

·         Writing for “Den store Danske Encyklopædi”

·         Censor for Ph.D Michal Guinea at  Darwin University Australia

 

Teaching experience:

·         Teaching at Sankt Jørgens High School in connection with excursions in Biology

           (1981-1988)

·         Teaching in Form & Function and Zoological Morphology at The University

          of Copenhagen  (1988-1997)

·         Lectures on biodiversity and phylogeny at Song Khlar University and Phuket Marine

          Biological Centre, Thailand

·         Lectures on sea snake, a cross-disciplinary approach at Hassanudin University,

          Ujung Pandang and Sam Ratulangi University, Manado, Sulawesi

·         Lecture on bites for Danish medical doctors 2000-2006

·         Lecture on herpetology at Odense University April 2000,2001

·         Invited teacher in cladistic methods at Phuket Marine Biological Centre, Thailand, year

          2000 (financed by DANIDA)

·         Teacher at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Conservation 

          from 1999-

 

 

Initiator and chairman of following three meetings:

·         Biodiversity: Artsbegrebet i teori og praksis. [The species concept in theory and

          practice]  Symposium at the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen 22-23

          November 1991 (220 participants)

·         Biology of aquatic elapids. Workshop with participants from Cambodia, Denmark,

           India, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand January 1998

·         Serum production in sea snakes. Workshop in Vietnam (Ngh Trang) with participants

          from Asia, 2004



Publication

 

Publicationer:                                                                                                                                ARR-2006

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1987. Persian Gulf sea snake Hydrophis lapemoides (Gray): New record from Phuket Islands, Andaman Sea and the southern part of Straits of Mallaca. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 35:57-58.      

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1989. Thalassophina viperina (Schmidt) and Laticauda laticaudata (Linne'): New records from Phuket Island, Andaman Sea, with remarks on the two subspecies of L.laticaudata. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society. 37(1):99-103.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1989. An analysis of Hydrophis ornatus (Gray), H.lamberti Smith, and H.inornatus (Gray) (Hydrophiidae, Serpentes) based on samples from various localities, with remarks on feeding and breeding biology of H.ornatus. Amphibia-Reptilia 10:397-417.

 

Bussarawit, S., Rasmussen, A. R. and Andersen, M. 1989. A preliminary study on sea snakes (Hydrophiidae) from Phuket harbour, Phuket Island, Thailand. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 37:209-225.

 

Rasmussen, A. R., and M. Andersen. 1990. The sea snake Kerilia jerdoni Gray (1849): First records from Andaman Sea, Phuket Island, Thailand, with remarks on the two subspecies. The Snake 22:131-133.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. (Editor) 1992. Biodiversitet: Artsbegrebet i teori og praksis. Københavns Universitet. November 1992. 56 pp. ISBN 87-87519-32-1.

 

Rasmussen, A.R. 1992. Rediscovery and redescription of Hydrophis bituberculatus Peters, 1872 (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae). Herpetologica 48:85-97.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1993. The status of the Persian Gulf Sea Snake Hydrophis lapemoides (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae). Bulletin of the British Museum Natural History (Zool.) 59:97-104.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1994. A cladistic analysis of the Hydrophis subg. Chitulia (McDowell, 1972) (Serpentes: Hydrophiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 111:161-178.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1997. Systematics of sea snakes (a critical review). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 70:15-30.

 

Ineich, I. & Rasmussen, A.R. 1997. Sea snakes from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Elapidae, Laticaudinae and Hydrophiinae). Zoosystema 19(2-3):185-192.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. & Smith, L. 1997. The taxonomic status of the sea snakes Hydrophis czeblukovi (Kharin, 1984) from north-west Australian waters. Amphibia-Reptilia 18:419-425.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. & Nielsen, J. N. 1998. Sea snakes: a diverse group of aquatic snakes, ideal for international cross-disciplinary co-operation projects. Proceedings of the Conference “Biodiversity and Development 21. October 1998, Eigtveds Pakhus, Copenhagen, Denmark”: 98-103.

 

Nielsen, J. N. & Rasmussen, A. R. 1999. Slangebid. Månedsskrift for Praktiserende Lægegerning. Juni 1999:773-778.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1999. Giftsnogenes slægtskab. Carlsbergfondets årsskrift 1999.

 

Rasmussen A. R. & I. Ineich. 2000 Sea snakes of new caledonia and surrounding waters (serpentes:elapidae):first report on the occurrence of lapemis curtus and description of a new species (genus Hydrophis). Hamadryad vol. 25:91-99

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 2001. Sea Snakes. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific (Editors Carpenter & Niem) Volume 6:3987-4008

 

 

Rasmussen, A.R., Boesl-Riquier, M., and Böhme, W. 2001 A new species of the sea Snake genus Hydrophis (Serpentes, Elapidae) from a freshwater river in Borneo. Herpetologica. Vol 57:23-32

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 2002. Phylogenetic analysis of the „true“ aquatic elapid snakes Hydrophiinae (sensu Smith et al., 1977) indicates two independent radiations into water. Steenstrupia 27(1):47-63.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. et al., 2004. The Ngh Trang Declaration. Herpetological Review 34

 

Bussarawit, S., Tendal, O. Nielsen, C. & Rasmussen A. R. (submittet) Summary of the Thai-Danish Biodiversity project on the Andaman sea continental shelf and slope (1996-2000)

 

Rasmussen, A.R.,Gravlund, P.,Cao Van Nguyen, and Chanhome, L. (in press) A resurrection of Hydrophis Pachycercos Fischer 1855 (Serpentes: Elapidae) with a new neotype from Vietnamese waters.

 

Rasmussen, A.R. (in reprep.) Proper treatment of missing entries is still missing.

 

Gregersen, K. M., Bredal-Jørgensen, J., and Rasmussen, A. R. (in prep). Decalcification of sea snakes in Natural History Museum, London.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. (Editor) (in prep.). A FAO-species Catalogue on sea snakes. Published by FAO and will be on 220 pages.

 

 

Posters,  abstracts mm

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1991.  A taxonomic analysis of Hydrophis lapemoides (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae). Poster session. Congress in Budapest, August 1991.

 

Rasmussen, A. R., and A. B. Helwigh. 1992. Some clinical and epidemiological aspects of sea snake bites. Poster session (General Parasitology and Tropical Medicine). Congress in Copenhagen, February 29, 1992.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1993. A phylogenetic and biogeographical analysis of the subfamily Ephalophiinae (sensu Burger and Natsuno, 1974). Poster session. 2nd World Congress in Herpetology in Adelaide, Australia.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1995. Systematics of sea snakes (a critical review). In: Thorp, R.S., Wuster, W. and Malhotra, A. (eds): Venomous snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snakebite. Abstract. The Zoological Scoiety of London, Oxford University Press.

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1998. “ The Sea Snake Working Group” Abstract and poster in Biodiversity and Development 21. October 1998, Eigtveds Pakhus, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 1999. “Convergent aquatic adaptations in the true sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae)” Abstract in Secondary adaptation to life in water 13-17 September 1999, Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen.

 

Rasmussen, A. R., Chanhome, L. and Gravlund, P. 2001. A review of Enhydrina schistosa’s Biology. Biota Vol. 2 supplement: 45

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 2002. Havslanger og deres nærmeste slægtninge. Dyr i natur og museum 2002(1):14-16

 

Rasmussen, A. R. 2003. I en mundfuld. Kaskelot 142(12):10-11

 

Gravlund, P. og Rasmussen, A.R. 2004. DNA i Zoologisk Museums samlinger.Dyr i natur og museum 2004 (2):25-27

 

Rasmussen, A.R. 2005. A revision of the Hydrophis fasciatus-complex. SHE-Bonn- September 2005

 

Rasmussen, A.R. 2005. Sea snakes of Vietnam. SHE-Bonn-September 2005

 

 

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Arne Redsted Rasmussen den 1. januar 2006