Job Title: Director
Employer: Dalhousie University
Further Education: University of Washington (B.Sc.), Western Washington University (M.Sc.), Dalhousie University (Ph.D.).
Geographic focus of research: Great Lakes, lakes in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland
salt marshes all over the country including Hudson's Bay lowland
Coastal embayments all over-currently have a project with several other
researchers in a fjord on Vancouver Island to compare climate vs fish
stocks. Internationally we research on both coasts of the US up and down many of the coastal
marshes and into the Gulf of Mexico where we did work on both the salt
marshes and freshwater environments of the Mississippi Delta. Have
published faunal studies of marsh material from Alaska, Japan, New
Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Greece. many of these studies included
freshwater components. We are also the first to look in the Antartic dry
valley lakes for rhizopods.
Brief synopsis of current research:
We use testate rhizopods to reconstruct paleoenvironments in variety of
situations from sea-level studies to pollution studies. We have recently
finished a book that describes how to use these organisms as environmental
indicators in caostal areas (with Cambridge Press). We have published some
of the first studies on distributions of thecamoebians in N. American
lakes that enables their use as paleoindicators. We have also looked at
extreme environments such as the dry valley lakes of Antarctica for
thecamoebians.
Mailing address:
Centre for Marine Geology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H3J5
Canada
Phone: (902)494-3604; Fax: (902)494-3877, 6889
E-mail:
dbscott@is.dal.ca