快猫成版视频 Allison professor renewed as Canada Research Chair
SACKVILLE, NB 鈥 快猫成版视频 professor Dr. Douglas Campbell has been renewed as the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Phytoplankton Ecophysiology. The federal program provides funding for exceptional researchers at Canadian universities.
Campbell鈥檚 latest appointment is for a Tier 1 Chair, which is for seven years and comes with over $1.4-million in research funding over that time period.
A microbiologist, Campbell has been a Canada Research Chair since 2002, studying how different species of phytoplankton 鈥 microscopic marine plant organisms 鈥 respond to environmental change.
鈥淚鈥檓 honoured and humbled to be renewed as a Canada Research Chair,鈥 says Campbell. 鈥淭his kind of support helps give my research program a longer perspective and allows my team, including 快猫成版视频 Allison students each, to better focus on the work they are doing in the lab and in the field.鈥
鈥淒r. Doug Campbell is one of 快猫成版视频 Allison鈥檚 most distinguished scientists and is known globally for his expertise in phytoplankton,鈥 says Dr. Jeff Ollerhead, 快猫成版视频 provost and vice-president, academic and research. 鈥淥n behalf of the entire University community, I wish to congratulate him on his reappointment as a Canada Research Chair.鈥
Campbell is currently working on a number of research projects with collaborators from around the world. While on sabbatical this past term, he completed a fellowship at the Centrum Algatech, a microbiology institute affiliated with the Czech Academy of Science. He is continuing this research partnership on campus with Dr. Amanda Cockshutt, 快猫成版视频 Allison biochemist and dean of science, exploring how phytoplankton grow and adapt to lower oxygen levels, caused by changes in ocean temperatures.
Another project he is involved in looks at biofilms of microorganisms, in the Bay of Fundy and how these support mudflat ecosystems, in collaboration with 快猫成版视频 Allison biologist Dr. Diana Hamilton and researchers at University of New Brunswick, University of Nantes (France), and Cardiff University in Wales.
His lab is also looking at how phytoplankton and bacteria co-operate to detoxify their environment and is working with Sackville鈥檚 EOS-Energy to engage in community science outreach to collect water samples to understand sources of contamination along New Brunswick鈥檚 Northumberland Strait coastline.
Campbell is now back on campus where he is continuing his research and teaching courses in microbiology, including an environmental project course. He will be part of a team of 快猫成版视频 Allison faculty and staff who will team teach a new class, Operational Data Science, being offered this spring.
鈥淚t鈥檚 exciting to work with not only our research team but also student researchers, as well as community members with respect to the EOS-Energy work,鈥 says Campbell. 鈥淪upport from programs such as the CRC helps to provide resources and equipment for these kinds of research projects.鈥
Over the next year, Campbell will also host researchers from across Canada, France, and the U.K. in his lab, located in 快猫成版视频 Allison鈥檚 new life sciences research centre.
