Highest Degree
B.Sc.(Honours) M.Sc. Ph.D.
Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Subject Area
Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Activities
Nutrient uptake and assimilation/regeneration processes using both stable and radioactive isotopes with natural phytoplankton assemblages and laboratory cultures; extensive culturing experience including experimentation with Lingulodinium polyedrum; Heterosigma akashiwo; Gymnodinium spp.; diatoms - Pseudo-nitzshia spp.; picoplankton, especially Micromonas pusilla; heterotrophic bacteria; lopogenic phytoplankton, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Physiological Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms; International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae (ISSHA); North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)-Harmful Algal Blooms Working Group
Sea regions of study
The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia
North Pacific Ocean
Southern Ocean
Skills
Phytoplankton culturing of and experimentation with tropical and temperate phytoplankton, including Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) species that produce biooxins and lipogenic algae used in the algal biofuel industry. Expertise in (N,C,P) nutrient usage by phytoplankton and their response to other abiotic factors such as light, temperature, salinity and acidity (pH).
