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Christine A. Maggs
Born
Christine Adair Maggs

(1956-06-08) 8 June 1956 (age 68)
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis A phenological study of two maerl beds in Galway Bay, Ireland[5]  (1983)
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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/

Education

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Membership Directory: Christine A Maggs". Royal Irish Academy. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Award of Excellence". Phycological Society of America.
  3. ^ a b "Prescott Award". Phycological Society of America.
  4. ^ a b "Provasoli Award". Phycological Society of America.
  5. ^ a b c 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. Bibcode:2015BiInv..17.2123K. doi:10.1007/s10530-015-0865-8. S2CID 254289363.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ a b c 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. Bibcode:2016JPcgy..52..505S. 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. Bibcode:2003EJPhy..38..277H. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.330.5106. doi:10.1080/1364253031000136321. S2CID 18856367.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ a b 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. Bibcode:1989JPcgy..25..333M. 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)
  17. ^ "Editorial board". European Journal of Phycology. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  18. ^ Journal of Biogeography, 34. Wiley. 2007.
  19. ^ Journal of Biogeography, 41. Wiley. 2014.
  20. ^ Journal of Phycology, 45. Wiley. 2009.
  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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