James Davis Reimer's research focuses on the biodiversity of understudied marine invertebrate groups (so-called "minor taxa"), primarily benthic cnidarians including zoantharians and their endosymbionts, as well as octocorals, from shallow tropical coral reefs to the deep sea. Recent research has also examined the impact of coastal development on marine diversity and ecosystems. Since 2007, he has been based at the University of the Ryukyus, where he is currently an Associate Professor. In 2015, he was awarded the Okinawa Research Prize for science contributing to the well-being and understanding of the Ryukyu Islands.

  Please note that only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

	Typhoon damage on a shallow mesophotic reef in Okinawa, Japan | article White KN, Ohara T, Fujii T, Kawamura I, Mizuyama M, Montenegro J, Shikiba H, Naruse T, McClelland TY, Denis V, Reimer JD (2013) PeerJ 1:e151
	First record of a mesophotic Pachyseris foliosa reef from Japan | article Ohara T, Fujii T, Kawamura I, Mizuyama M, Montenegro J, Shikiba H, White KN, Reimer JD (2013) Marine Biodiversity 43:71-72
	Shifting communities after­­ typhoon damage on an upper mesophotic reef in Okinawa, Japan | article White​​ KN, Weinstein​ DK, Ohara T, Denis V, Montenegro J, Reimer JD (2017) PeerJ 5:e3573
	A record of Neozoanthus cf. uchina Reimer, Irei & Fujii, 2012 from the Yaeyama Islands, southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan | article Reimer JD, Irei Y, Naruse T (2013) Fauna Ryukyuana 7:1-7
	In situ observation of Denise’s pygmy seahorse Hippocampus denise associated with a gorgonian coral Annella reticulata at Osprey Reef, Australia | article Nishikawa J, Fitzpatrick R, Reimer JD, Beaman RJ, Yamamoto H, Lindsay DJ (2011) Galaxea, J Coral Reef Stud 13:25-26
	The untethered remotely operated vehicle PICASSO-1 and its deployment from chartered dive vessels for deep sea surveys off Okinawa, Japan, and Ospr... | article Lindsay DJ, Yoshida H, Uemura T, Yamamoto H, Ishibashi S, Nishikawa J, Reimer JD, Beaman RJ, Fitzpatrick R, Fujikura K (2012) Mar Technol Soc J 46:20-32
	Unexpected diversity and a new species of Epizoanthus (Anthozoa, Hexacorallia) attached to eunicid worm tubes from the Pacific Ocean | article Kise H, Reimer JD (2016) Zookeys
	Appearance of an anomalous black band disease at upper mesophotic depths after coral bleaching | article Kubomura T, Yamashiro H, Reimer JD (2018) Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 131:245-249
	Exploring the Biodiversity of Understudied Benthic Taxa at Mesophotic and Deeper Depths: Examples From the Order Zoantharia (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) | article Reimer JD, Kise H, Santos MEA, Lindsay DJ, Pyle RL, Copus JM, Bowen BW, Nonaka M, Higashiji T, Benayahu Y (2019) Front Mar Sci 6:305
	Populations of a widespread hexacoral have trophic plasticity and flexible syntrophic interactions across the Indo-Pacific Ocean | article Santos MEA, Baker DM, Conti-Jerpe IE, Reimer JD (2021) Coral Reefs 40:543–558
	Downslope migration of free-living corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in typhoon-exposed reef habitats at Okinawa, Japan | article Ohara T, Hoeksema BW, Wee HB, Reimer JD (2021) Marine Environmental Research 170:105445
	Genome-wide SNPs data provides new insights into the population structure of the Atlantic-Mediterranean gold coral Savalia savaglia (Zoantharia: Pa... | article Poliseno A, Terzin M, Costantini F, Trainito E, Mačić V, Boavida J, Perez T, Abbiati M, Cerrano C, Reimer JD (2022) Ecological Genetics and Genomics 25:100135
	A new species of sea whip gorgonian-associated zoantharian (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Parazoanthidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with ... | article Fujii T, dos Santos MEA, Reimer JD (2021) Zoolog Sci 38:466-480

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  Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)
  Manned Submersible
  Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
  Sonar / Multibeam
  Drop / Towed Video
  Coring / drilling
  Snorkeling
  Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV)
  Aquarium-based
  Dredging / trawling
  Land-based
  In-situ instrumentation