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Christopher Ward, PhD

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Research Assistant Professor

SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences

Contact

508-910-6327

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School for Marine Science & Technology, New Bedford 118A

Education

2016Duke UniversityPhD in Marine Science
2007Carleton CollegeBA in Chemistry

Research

Research awards

  • $ 295,875 awarded by National Science Foundation for Understanding Winter Nitrogen Cycling Across Gradients of Winter Severity and Impacts on Phytoplankton Communities in an Inland Freshwater Sea, Lake Erie

Research interests

  • Marine microbial genomics
  • Marine biodegradation of polymers
  • Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms

Select publications

  • Christopher S Ward, Zoie Diana, Kate Meicong Ke, Beatriz Orihuela, Thomas P Schultz, Daniel Rittschof (2022).
    Microbiome development of seawater-incubated pre-production plastic pellets reveals distinct and predictive community compositions
    Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 807327.
  • Jeffrey A Kimbrel, Brendan M Jeffrey, Christopher S Ward (2021).
    Microbial Systems Biology: Methods and Protocols, 193-214.
  • Christopher S Ward, Cheuk-Man Yung, Katherine M Davis, Sara K Blinebry, Tiffany C Williams, Zackary I Johnson, Dana E Hunt (2017).
    ISME Journal, 11, 1412-1422.
  • Cheuk-Man Yung, Christopher S Ward, Katherine M Davis, Zackary I Johnson, Dana E Hunt (2016).
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82, 3431-3437.
    Ryan S Wagner, Michelle J Neudeck, Alexis E Heath, Katelyn B Barker, Katelyn M Brown, Seth Buchholz, Christopher S Ward, George S Bullerjahn
  • The recent disappearance of a persistent Planktothrix bloom: Characterization of a regime shift in the phytoplankton of Sandusky Bay (USA) (2024).
    Harmful Algae, 136, 102656.
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