Corporate Profile

Algal Taxonomy and Ecology incorporated (AT&E Inc). Established in 1998 and headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We continue to work with leading scientific authorities in countries worldwide to assist them with phytoplankton expertise which aids in making sound ecological evaluations and decisions.
 

The principal researcher at AT&E has over 40 years experience in algal taxonomy and was previously the Primary Algal Taxonomist at the Freshwater Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Central and Arctic Region), Winnipeg, Canada. The company is well connected to the Canadian and Global taxonomic and limnological community.
 
AT&E has experience in sediment microfossil analysis specializing in algal microfossils using a method which includes both non siliceous and siliceous microfossils. AT&E also has experience in toxic algal species and suspected toxic samples are subcontracted out.
 

Personal Profile

I am currently self-employed as a freelance phytoplankton taxonomist ecologist under the company Algal Taxonomy and Ecology Inc.
 
I have participated in the International Association of Phytoplankton (IAP) intercalibration assessment studies.
 
My interests are primarily phytoplankton taxonomy and ecology of lakes and rivers from the arctic to the tropics.
 


 
Qualifications: Most of my experience in phytoplankton has been acquired on the job while working with the Canadian Government Department of Fisheries and Oceans for 29 years. This work enabled me to participate in studies from ELA, Lake Winnipeg and IBP project on Char Lake Cornwallis Island in the Canadian Arctic archipelagos and Prairie pot-hole lakes (1969 's to mid 70's), Lake Tanganyika (UNDP- FAO 1975) Southern Indian Lake (mid 70's-80's), Saqvacjuac Arctic Eutrophication studies (late 70's mid 80's), in the late 80's and early 90's studies consisted of a large lake size series that include lakes from north western Ontario in excess of 90 hectares to the Great Lakes in North America (Lake Superior) and Africa (Lake Malawi and Lake Victoria).
 
In 1998 I took early retirement and continued to do freelance phytoplankton work on large Canadian lakes (Lake Winnipeg, Lake Erie, Hamilton Harbour, Lake of the Woods, and Lake Manitoba ) and African (Lakes Malawi, Victoria and Tanganyika) Great Lakes, collaborative taxonomic studies on the centric diatom Urosolenia from tropical (Australia , Sri Lanka and Africa) and temperate (Austria and Canada) lakes. Other recent interest are the documentation and identification of toxic freshwater algae especially bluegreens responsible for toxin problems in central Canadian Lakes, Rivers and Reservoirs.
 
I obtained a MSc from the University of Manitoba Department of Botany in September 1997. This was a comprehensive morphometric and ecological study of the common freshwater centric diatom Cyclotella bodanica complex.