Discoveries
- The National Geographic Society in Washington holds a specimen of an Aepyornis egg which was discovered by Marden in 1967 in Madagascar. The specimen is intact and contains an embryonic skeleton of the unborn bird.
- Discovered the orchid Epistephium mardenii in Brazil. Described in Marden's April 1971 article on orchids, "The Exquisite Orchids." The name is actually a synonym for Epistephium duckei.
- Discovered a deep-water lobster parasite deep in the Atlantic that was a new species of crustacean, later called Dolobrotus mardeni (Amphipoda order, Gammaridea suborder, Eusiridae family).
- His reporting of a sea anemone in the Red Sea flashing different colors became the first published report of submarine or underwater fluorescence.
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