faculty
Christopher Ward, PhD
he/him
Research Assistant Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
Contact
508-910-6327
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School for Marine Science & Technology, New Bedford 118A
Education
| 2016 | Duke University | PhD in Marine Science |
| 2007 | Carleton College | BA in Chemistry |
Teaching
Courses
Research investigations of a fundamental and/or applied nature defining a topic area and preliminary results for the dissertation proposal undertaken before the student has qualified for EAS 701. With approval of the student's graduate committee, up to 15 credits of EAS 601 may be applied to the 30 credit requirement for dissertation research.
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).
Prokaryotic genome annotation
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).
Annual community patterns are driven by seasonal switching between closely related marine bacteria
ISME Journal, 11, 1412-1422. - Cheuk-Man Yung, Christopher S Ward, Katherine M Davis, Zackary I Johnson, Dana E Hunt (2016).
Insensitivity of diverse and temporally variable particle-associated microbial communities to bulk seawater environmental parameters
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).
The recent disappearance of a persistent Planktothrix bloom: Characterization of a regime shift in the phytoplankton of Sandusky Bay (USA)
Harmful Algae, 136, 102656.