Education

Teaching

• Ocean Environment
• Descriptive Oceanography
• Biogeography
• Biological Oceanography

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Biology BS
• Intercampus Marine Science Programs MS, PhD
• Marine Science and Technology MS
• Marine Science and Technology PhD
• University of São Paulo Dual PhD PhD

Research

Research activities

• Biological and Physical Controls of Toxic Alexandrium Blooms in Shallow Estuarine Systems
• Harbor Outfall Monitoring 9 (HOM 9) zooplankton monitoring in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod Bay
• Long-term plankton and water-quality ecological survey of Buzzards Bay

Research

Research awards

• $ 80,942 awarded by Battelle Memorial Institute for Harbor and Outfall Monitoring Services (2020-2023)

Research

Research interests

• Marine plankton
• Zooplankton feeding
• Plankton communities of Boston Harbor and adjacent waters
• Food web accumulation and transport of red tide toxins
• Interactions between copepod feeding and reproductive success

Select publications

• Turner, Jefferson T (2015).
  Zooplankton fecal pellets, marine snow, phytodetritus and the ocean’s biological pump
  Progress in Oceanography, 130, 205-248.
  
• Turner, J. T. (2014).
  Planktonic marine copepods and harmful algae
  Harmful Algae, 32, 81-93.
  
• Anderson, D. M., D. J. McGillicuddy, S. L. DeGrasse, K. G. Sellner, V. M. Bricelj, J. T. Turner, D. W. Townsend, & J. L. Kleindinst (Guest Editors) (2014).
  Harmful Algae in the Gulf of Maine: Oceanography, Population Dynamics, and Toxin Transfer in the Food Web
  Deep-Sea Research II, 103, 1-375.
  

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