Formal Education:

B. Sc. Specialized Honours Marine Biology (Distinction), University of Guelph, 1983-87

M. Sc. Aquatic Ecology, University of Guelph, Supervisor: Dr. J. C. Roff,  Thesis: Relationships between maximal enzyme activity and growth rate in aquatic microcrustaceans 1987-89

Ph. D. Biological Oceanography, University of British Columbia, Supervisor: Dr. P. J. Harrison, Thesis: Enzymes as indices of growth and nitrate metabolism in marine phytoplankton 1989-1994

Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental biophysics and molecular ecology, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Supervisor: Dr. P. G. Falkowski, 1994-1996

 

Positions Held:

Summer Research Assistant, National Research Council Canada, Dr. J. MacLachlan, Supervisor, Marine macrophyte survey of coastal Prince Edward Island.  May-September 1985

Research Assistant, Dept. Zoology, University of Guelph, Dr. J. C. Roff, Supervisor

Survey of phyto- and zooplankton in harbour and surrounding regions of Kingston, Jamaica, as part of a Canadian International Development Agency-sponsored coastal management study.  May- July 1986

Research Assistant, Dept. Zoology, University of Guelph, Dr. V. G. Thomas, Supervisor Marine production study of frontal zones of tide-water glaciers, Pond Inlet, Baffin Island. July-September 1986

Research Assistant, Dept. Zoology, University of Guelph, Dr. J. S. Ballantyne, Supervisor Experiments involving salinity acclimations of fatty acid and ketone body metabolism in oysters. May-September 1987

Postdoctoral Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York,  Dr. P. G. Falkowski, Supervisor 1994-1996

Lecturer (equivalent in the UK to Assistant Professor) in Aquatic Environmental Biology January 1996-8

Lecturer Confirmed in Post (the tenure process in the UK) September 1998- September 2002

     Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Assistant Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee October 2002-present

 

Special Honors and Awards:

            1983-4             University of Guelph Entrance Scholarship

            1986, 1987      Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Fellowships

            1987                College of Biological Science Alumni Association Scholarship

            1987                College of Biological Science Gold Medal

            1988-9             Ontario Graduate Scholarship

            1988-9             Keith Ronald Graduate Fellowship

            1989-91           NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship        

            1989-93           Killam Predoctoral Fellowships

            1993                Kit Malkin Scholarship

            1994                Governor General’s Gold Medal

            1994                Captain Thomas Byrne Prize (Doctoral Thesis)

            1994-6             NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship