Obituary: Eve Caroline Southward (née Judges) 1930–2023

Dando, PR, Hawkins, SJ, Tunnicliffe, V and Mieszkowska, N 2024 Obituary: Eve Caroline Southward (née Judges) 1930–2023. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 104. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315424000018

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Abstract/Summary

Eve Caroline Southward (1930–2023) was a multi-talented scientist, motivated by her curiosity and love of nature. Since she was never paid as a scientist, Eve was an amateur, in the best sense of the word. She was highly proficient at transmission electron microscopy and made lasting contributions to polychaete taxonomy, morphology and ecology. Eve was internationally respected, especially for her studies on the Siboglinidae, mouthless and gutless tubeworms (formerly called Pogonophora) that are found worldwide in the deep-sea. She described how the siboglinids obtained nutrition from symbiotic, sulphur-oxidising bacteria and described similar symbiotic relationships in several bivalve species. Eve wrote over 140 scientific publications and described 56 new benthic species, 47 being mouthless and gutless ‘pogonophores’. Eve assisted her husband Alan Southward in starting broad-scale intertidal surveys around the British Isles and Northwest Europe. These surveys formed the foundation for the time-series, later continued by others, that allowed assessments of the influence of climatic fluctuations, using intertidal rocky shore biota as indicators. Eve contributed, with Alan, to what became a 50-year study describing the long-term effects on intertidal communities of the oil pollution and excessive dispersant use resulting from the Torrey Canyon oil spill in 1967. Eve also co-wrote the Linnaean Society Synopsis on Echinoderms of the British Isles and helped complete unpublished work by Alan Southward and others on barnacle taxonomy

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Additional Keywords:	chemosynthesis,climate change,deep-sea ecology, echinoderms, oil pollution,siboglinidae
Subjects:	Marine Sciences
Divisions:	Marine Biological Association of the UK > Other (MBA)
Depositing User:	Ms Kristina Hixon
Date made live:	13 Jan 2025 09:45
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2025 09:45
URI:	https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10354

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