Christopher T. Taggart (Draft Profile)

Dr. C.T. Taggart, Professor (fisheries oceanography) has been with the Oceanography Department at Dalhousie University since 1995. Prior to that he was a Research Scientist with the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre in St. John's, NL (1991-94); an Assistant Professor (NSERC-URF) in Oceanography at Dalhousie (1988-91); and an NSERC-PDF jointly with Dalhousie and the now defunct Marine Ecology Lab at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1986-88). He received his PhD (Dean's Honours) in fisheries oceanography in 1986 at McGill University where he was an NSERC Scholar and McConnell Fellow and won the American Fisheries Society Student Award of Merit and the Canadian Society of Zoology Cameron Award (Outstanding PhD Thesis in Canada). He received his MSc in limnology in 1980 at York University where he was an Ontario Graduate Scholar. As a principal investigator in many small and large multi-institutional research initiatives, he conducts oceanographic research with undergraduate and graduate students, PDFs and RAs on physical, biochemical, genetic, ecological and human influences on growth, reproduction, early life history, recruitment, survival, population structure, distribution and conservation of marine organisms. His study organisms range from zooplankton to fishes and turtles and whales in systems as small as the Bay of Fundy and as large as the Coral Sea. Over the last 25 years he has contributed to 80 primary publications, 50 research reports and documents and 200 conference, workshop and seminar presentations of which 30% have been either invited contributions or keynote addresses.