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Professor TURNER, JEFFERSON T. (Dartmouth)
Professor, Department of Biology and School of Marine Science and Technology

Phone: (508) 910-6332
Email: jturner@umassd.edu

Teaching the following courses:

Biological Oceanography

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
1977 - Ph.D., Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

1972 - M.A., Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL

1969 - B.S., Biology, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC

Professional History:
1991 - present - Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

1979 - 1990 - Assistant, Associate Professor, Southeastern Massachusetts University

1981 - 1984 - Fishery Biologist, NMFS Beaufort, NC (on IPA leave from SMU)

1978 - 1979 - Associate Research Scientist, New York Ocean Science Lab., Montauk, NY

1977 - 1978 - Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL

Current Research Support:
ECOHAB:Gulf of Maine (ECology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms),
The ecology and oceanography of toxic Alexandrium blooms in the Gulf of Maine, NSF/NOAA, UMass Dartmouth portion $95,659, 1998 - 2002, (co - PI with Donald Anderson and 14 other PIs from WHOI, UMaine, UNH, USGS)

MWRA Boston Harbor and Outfall Montoring Program: Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Analyses, Battelle Ocean Sciences, UMass Dartmouth Subcontract $119,763, 1998 - 2000

Nutrients, Eutrophication and Harmful Algal Blooms in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Department of Environmental Protection, $70,060, 1998 - 2000

Coastal 2000 EPA Coastal Massachusetts Monitoring Program; Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Office, $174,000, 2000 - 2002 (co - PI with Gordon Wallace, UMass Boston)

Selected Publications:
Turner, J. T., U. V. Bathmann, T. K. S. Björnberg, F. P. Brandini & R. M. Lopes. 1996. Advanced course on Marine Zooplankton Ecology, Pontal do Sul, Brasil: A summary. Neritica (Brazil): 9: 93 - 103.

Turner, J. T. & P. A. Tester. 1997. Toxic marine phytoplankton, zooplankton grazers, and pelagic food webs. Limnology & Oceanography, special issue on The Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms, Vol. 42(5, part 2): 1203 - 1214.

Turner, J. T., R. R. Hopcroft, J. A. Lincoln, C. Sassman Huestis, P. A. Tester, & J. C. Roff. 1998. Zooplankton feeding ecology: Grazing by marine copepods and cladocerans upon phytoplankton and cyanobacteria from Kingston Harbour, Jamaica. P.S.Z.N. Marine Ecology 19: 195 - 208.

Turner, J. T., P. A. Tester, J. A. Lincoln, P. Carlsson, & E. Granéli. 1999. Effects of N:P:Si - ratios and zooplankton grazing on phytoplankton communities in the northern Adriatic Sea. III. Zooplankton populations and grazing. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 18: 67 - 75.

Turner, J. T. 2000. Feeding ecology of marine copepods. An overview of recent studies and emerging issues. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Marine Biology in Taiwan, National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series No. 10: 37 - 57.

Tester, P. A., J. T. Turner, & D. Shea. 2000. Vectorial transport of toxins from the dinoflagellate Gymnodinium breve through copepods to fish. Journal of Plankton Research 22: 47 - 61.

Turner, J. T., G. J. Doucette, C. L. Powell, D. M. Kulis, B. A. keafer & D. M. Anderson. 2000. Accumulation of red tide toxins in larger size fractions of zooplankton assemblages in Massachusetts Bay, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 203: 95 - 107.

Levinsen, H., J. T. Turner, T. G. Nielsen, & B. W. Hansen. On the trophic coupling between protists and copepods in arctic marine ecosystems. Marine Ecology Progress Series 204: 65 - 77.