Dr. Jefferson T. Turner

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Education
  • Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A.

Dr. Jefferson Turner is Chancellor Professor in the Departments of Biology and Fisheries Oceanography at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. His research focuses on long-term plankton and water-quality ecological survey of Buzzards Bay; plankton communities of Boston Harbor and adjacent waters; zooplankton feeding; food web accumulation and transport of red tide toxins; interactions between copepod feeding and reproductive success.

Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Turner has published the following:

Turner, J. T., M. T. Postek, and S. B. Collard. 1979. Infestation of the estuarine copepod Acartia tonsa with the ciliate Epistylis. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 98: 136–138.

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