Christine Maggs

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Christine A. Maggs
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Christine Adair Maggs

(1956-06-08) 8 June 1956 (age 67)
Nationality British
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Thesis A phenological study of two maerl beds in Galway Bay, Ireland [5]  (1983)
Website staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/cmaggs

Christine Adair Maggs (born 8 June 1956) is a British phycologist. [5] Formerly Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science & Technology at Bournemouth University, [1] she was the first Chief Scientist of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, retiring in 2022. She is now an independent non-executive Director of Ocean Harvest Technology https://oceanharvesttechnology.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/

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Education

Maggs graduated with a Botany degree from St Catherine's College, Oxford in 1978 [1] and a PhD from National University of Ireland, Galway in 1983. [1] [5]

Research and career

Maggs worked as a postdoc at the Atlantic Research Laboratory, Nova Scotia, Canada and Queen's University Belfast (the latter on an Advanced Natural Environment Research Council Fellowship), before taking up a post as a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast in 1995. Her main research interests are molecular systematics of seaweeds with particular interests in alien marine algae and plants, [6] biological conservation, and sustainable seaweed exploitation. The majority of her publications focus on red algae (Rhodophyta), [7] [8] although she has also published on brown algae [9] and green algae, notably showing that Linnaeus was correct in his assertion that the genera Ulva and Enteromorpha were not distinct. [10] She has described two new orders (Ahnfeltiales [11] and Atractophorales [7] ) of alga, and three new families (Ahnfeltiaceae, [11] Atractophoraceae, [7] and Haemeschariaceae [12] ). She has published over a hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers. [13]

She has written three books on seaweeds: Seasearch Guide to Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland, [14] Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland, [15] and Seaweeds of the British Isles. [16]

Editorial work

Professor Maggs has been the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Phycology for 20 years (1994-2004; joint Editor-in-Chief from 2010) and is a Managing Editor of the new BPS journal Applied Phycology, with Prof. Juliet Brodie and Editor-in-Chief Prof. John Beardall. [17] She was Associate Editor of Journal of Biogeography from 2007-2014, [18] [19] Associate Editor of Journal of Phycology (2009–10), [20] [21] and from 1991-1993 she was Associate Editor of Phycologia, [22] [23] [24] the bi-monthly journal of the International Phycological Society.

Diversity work

Professor Maggs led the Queen's University Belfast School of Biological Sciences application for an Athena SWAN Gold Award. [25] This successful application made Queen's University Belfast the recipient of only the third departmental Athena SWAN Gold award. [26] In 2017, Professor Maggs was awarded the British Ecological Society Equality and Diversity Champion award. [27]

Awards and honours

In 2013, Professor Maggs was elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy. [1] Professor Maggs is a two-time recipient, in 1994 and 2018, of the Phycological Society of America Provasoli award for the most outstanding paper published in the Journal of Phycology. [4] She also received the Phycological Society of America Prescott Award in 1995, [3] and the Phycological Society of America Award of Excellence in 2014. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Membership Directory: Christine A Maggs". Royal Irish Academy. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Award of Excellence". Phycological Society of America.
  3. 1 2 "Prescott Award". Phycological Society of America.
  4. 1 2 "Provasoli Award". Phycological Society of America.
  5. 1 2 3 Maggs, Christine (1983). A phenological study of the epiflora of two maerl beds in Galway Bay. NUI Galway: Unpublished PhD Thesis.
  6. ↑ Kelly, R., Harrod, C., Maggs, C.A. & Reid, N. (2015). "Effects of Elodea nuttallii on temperate freshwater plants, microalgae and invertebrates: small differences between invaded and uninvaded areas". Biological Invasions. 17 (7): 2123–2138. doi:10.1007/s10530-015-0865-8. S2CID   254289363.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. 1 2 3 Saunders, G.W., Filloramo, G., Dixon, K., Le Gall, L., Maggs, C.A. & Kraft, G.T. (2016). "Multigene analyses resolve early diverging lineages in the Rhodymeniophycidae (Florideophyceae, Rhodphyta)" (PDF). Journal of Phycology. 52 (4): 505–522. doi: 10.1111/jpy.12426 . PMID   27150836.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ Provan, J., Glendinning, K., Kelly, R. & Maggs, C.A. (2013). "Levels and patterns of population genetic diversity in the red seaweed Chondrus crispus (Florideophyceae): a direct comparison of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and microsatellites". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 108 (2): 251–262. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.02010.x .{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Yesson, C., Bush, L.E., Davies, A.J., Maggs, C.A. & Brodie, J. (2015). "Large brown seaweeds of the British Isles: evidence of changes in abundance over four decades". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 155: 167–175. Bibcode:2015ECSS..155..167Y. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2015.01.008.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ Hayden, H.S., Blomster, J., Maggs, C.A., Silva, P.C., Stanhope, M.J. and Waaland, J. R. (2003). "Linnaeus was right all along: Ulva and Enteromorpha are not distinct genera". European Journal of Phycology. 38 (3): 277–294. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.330.5106 . doi:10.1080/1364253031000136321. S2CID   18856367.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. 1 2 Maggs, C.A. & Pueschel, C.M. (1989). "Morphology and development of Ahnfeltia plicata (Rhodophyta): proposal of Ahnfeltiales ord. nov". Journal of Phycology. 25 (2): 333–351. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.1989.tb00131.x. S2CID   85129205.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Wilce, R.T. & Maggs, C.A. (1989). "Reinstatement of the genus Haemescharia (Rhodophyta, Haemeschariaceae fam. nov.) for H. polygyna and H. hennedyi comb. nov. (=Petrocelis hennedyi)". Canadian Journal of Botany. 67 (5): 1465–1479. doi:10.1139/b89-196.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ↑ "Christine Maggs". ORCID. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  14. ↑ Bunker, F., Brodie, J.A, Maggs, C.A. & Bunker, A. (210). Seasearch Guide to Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. Marine Conservation Society.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ Brodie, J., Maggs, C.A. & John, D.M. (Eds) (2007). Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. London: British Phycological Society. ISBN   9780952711537.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ↑ Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1 Rhodophyta, Part 3A Ceramiales. London: Natural History Museum/HMSO. ISBN   978-1907807718.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  21. ↑ Journal of Phycology, 46. Wiley. 2010.
  22. ↑ "Officers". Phycologia. 30: i. 1991. doi:10.2216/0031-8884-30.1.i.
  23. ↑ "Officers". Phycologia. 31: i. 1992. doi:10.2216/0031-8884-31.1.i.
  24. ↑ "Officers". Phycologia. 32: i. 1993. doi:10.2216/0031-8884-32.1.i.
  25. ↑ "Athena SWAN Gold department award application" (PDF). Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  26. ↑ Gibney, Elizabeth (25 April 2013). "Athena SWAN applications soar" . Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  27. ↑ JNCC press release. "Professor Christine Maggs wins the British Ecological Society Equality and Diversity Champion award". JNCC. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
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