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Colin Palmer
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
205 Points

Contributions by role

Reviewer 105
Editor 100

Contributions by subject area

Animal Behavior
Zoology
Paleontology
Environmental Sciences
Evolutionary Studies
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Bioengineering
Biophysics
Freshwater Biology

Colin Palmer

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

An engineer by training with a wide interest in low speed aerodynamics and the fluid dynamics of animal locomotion. PhD topic was the flight of the large pterosaurs. Research Associate at the universities of Bristol and Southampton in the UK.

Bioengineering

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Bristol
University of Southampton

Work details

Research Associate

University of Bristol
February 2005
Department of Earth Sciences

Research Associate

University of Southampton
February 2012
Ocean and Earth Science

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Edited 1
  • Reviewed 3
August 5, 2024
Modelling take-off moment arms in an ornithocheiraean pterosaur
Benjamin W. Griffin, Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone, Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Erik Anthony Meilak, Fabiana R. Costa, Colin Palmer, Emily J. Rayfield
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17678 PubMed 39119105

Academic Editor on

November 14, 2017
Zebrafish swimming in the flow: a particle image velocimetry study
Violet Mwaffo, Peng Zhang, Sebastián Romero Cruz, Maurizio Porfiri
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4041 PubMed 29158978

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

June 3, 2022
Determination of muscle strength and function in plesiosaur limbs: finite element structural analyses of Cryptoclidus eurymerus humerus and femur
Anna Krahl, Andreas Lipphaus, P. Martin Sander, Ulrich Witzel
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13342 PubMed 35677394
August 16, 2018
A buoyancy, balance and stability challenge to the hypothesis of a semi-aquatic Spinosaurus Stromer, 1915 (Dinosauria: Theropoda)
Donald M. Henderson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5409 PubMed 30128195
October 20, 2016
The influence of flight style on the aerodynamic properties of avian wings as fixed lifting surfaces
John J. Lees, Grigorios Dimitriadis, Robert L. Nudds
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2495 PubMed 27781155