James K. Lowry

James Kenneth Lowry (1942[1][2] - 2021)[3] was a zoologist specialising in amphipods.[4][5][6]

He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up near Chesapeake Bay.[7] This led to a B.A in biology from the University of Richmond followed by an M.A in marine science from the College of William and Mary, where he worked on the benthic fauna of the Antarctic island, Anvers Island.[7] His interest in Antarctic benthic fauna led to his Ph. D. from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand)[7] in 1976 with the thesis, Studies on the macrobenthos of the Southern Ocean,[8] researching which, he spent two winters at the New Zealand base on Ross Island near McMurdo Station,[7] and during which time he survived five days on Antarctic sea ice, with three fellow students, after a late-evening sail went wrong.[9]

He retired as a principal research scientist at the Australian Museum, where he worked from 1976[3] to 2011.


His zoological author abbreviation is Lowry.[10]

  1. ^ "zobacz khw | Prosto do informacji - katalog zbiorów polskich bibliotek naukowych". katalog.nukat.edu.pl. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Trove: Lowry, James K. (1942-)". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b "At the mercy of the ice". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  4. ^ J. K. Lowry; A. A. Myers (2022). "Platorchestiinae subfam. nov. (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitridae) with the description of three new genera and four new species". Zootaxa. 5100 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5100.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. Wikidata Q114637605.
  5. ^ J K Lowry; R T Springthorpe; A A Myers (20 August 2020). "Carpentaria gen. nov., a new talitrid genus from tropical Australia (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitroidea, Protorchestiidae)". Zootaxa. 4834 (3): 425–433. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4834.3.5. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33056116. Wikidata Q100555470.
  6. ^ J. K. Lowry (1974). "Key and checklist to the gammaridean amphipods of Kaikoura". New Zealand Natural Sciences. 2. doi:10.26021/489. ISSN 0113-7492. Wikidata Q97665259.
  7. ^ a b c d Berents, P. (6 December 2023). "Obituary—Dr Jim Lowry" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 75 (4): 301–302. doi:10.3853/J.2201-4349.75.2023.1872. ISSN 0067-1975. Wikidata Q126021380.
  8. ^ Lowry, James (1976). Studies on the macrobenthos of the Southern Ocean (Doctoral thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/7985. hdl:10092/7579.
  9. ^ "At the mercy of the ice". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  10. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tryphosella serans Lowry & Stoddart, 1983". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 13 October 2022.