Stephen D. Nash

Stephen David Nash (born 1954 in Clacton -on-Sea, Essex, England ) is an English animal illustrator who is mainly specialized in primates. He is currently in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University on Long Iceland, New York, USA, worked.

Life and work

Nash spent his school years in Clacton -on-Sea. After the completion of the Holland Park County Primary School he made in 1973 graduated from the Colbayn 's High School. In the following years he studied art and design at the Colchester School of Art at Middlesex University and the Royal College of Art, where in 1979 a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design ( Scientific Visualization ) and in July 1982 the Master of Arts in Nature Study Illustration graduated. Nash's original aim was medical illustrator, but after an encounter with the marmosets in the London Zoo, he changed his career plans. Since 1982 he works for Russell Mitter Meier, chairman of the IUCN / SSC Primate Specialist Group and president of Conservation International and Anthony Rylands, the deputy chairman of the IUCN / SSC Primate Specialist Group. After the founding of Conservation International in 1987, Nash was the scientific illustrator in 1989. In 1990 he married Luci Betti, who also works as an illustrator. Nash has illustrated many books, scientific articles and teaching materials for conservation, these include among others the works of Monkeyshines on the Primates: A Study of Primatology (1994 ) Lemurs of Madagascar (1994 ) Primates of West Africa: Pocket Identification Guide ( 2010) and the third volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World about the primates ( 2013).

Honors

In 2002, Nash was honored by Marc van Roosmalen and Russell Mitter Meier in the epithet of Stephen Nash titi monkeys ( Callicebus stephennashi ). In 2004 he received from the American Society of primatologists the President's Award and in 2008 he was honored by the Primate Society of Great Britain with the PSGB Occasional Medal.

Works (selection)

  • Birds in the Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan Tengah Province, 1986
  • The Birds of Java and Bali, 1989
  • The Birds of Sumatra and Kalimantan, 1991
  • Sold for a song: the trade in Southeast Asian non- CITES birds, 1993
  • Monkeyshines on the Primates: A Study of Primatology, 1994
  • Lemurs of Madagascar, 1994
  • From Steppe to Store, 1995
  • Primate Adaptation and Evolution, 1999
  • North American Regional Studbook for White - cheeked Gibbon Nomascus leucogenys and Golden- cheeked gibbon Nomascus Gabrielle harboring 2000
  • Primates of Colombia, 2005
  • Libro rojo de los Mamíferos de Colombia, 2006
  • Monkeys of the Atlantic Forest, 2007
  • Primates of West Africa: Pocket Identification Guide. 2010
  • Handbook of the Mammals of the World Vol 3 Primates, 2013
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