Mary Jane Adams
Nudi Pixel Photographer
Mary Jane is a retired anesthesiologist who lives in Southern California. She has dived in 35 countries around the world since 1975, always with a camera in her hand. Her undersea interests have progressed over the years from fish to WW II wrecks to big animals and finally to sea slugs and other small creatures. She has dived with whale sharks, great white sharks, hammerheads and Orcas, but now gets more excited about finding and documenting new species of fish and invertebrates, especially nudibranchs.
The first underwater pictures Mary Jane shot were with a Nikonos II. Since then she has progressed through many camera systems including Nikonos III, Nikonos V, a Canon F-1, the Subeye System, a Nikon N 90, Nikon N 100 and in 2008 she joined the digital generation with a Nikon D300 in a Sea and Sea housing with dual Ikelite DS125 Substrobes. She is now in the process of converting thousands of rolls of archived film into digital files using a Nikon Coolscan V slide scanner.
Mary Jane has participated in several marine research expeditions to the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Phoenix Islands. In 2005 she discovered a new Glossodoris species in North Sulawesi, Indonesia and named it G. tibboeli in honor of Hans Tibboel, the dive master who brought it to her attention.
Mary Jane is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific and a Research Associate in the Malacology Dept. of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.
Her images have been published in many scientific papers, magazines and books including “Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and Sea Slugs” and “Nudibranch Behavior.”
Many of her images can be seen at:
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Nudibranch Species Photographed by Mary Jane Adams
(188 species)
