Christopher Taggart

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS  B3H 4R2

Room 4664 LSC

Webpage: http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~taggart
Full publication list: http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~taggart/Publications.htm

Phone: (902) 494-7144
   Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: chris.taggart@dal.ca

Education Background

• PhD - Fisheries Oceanography, McGill University
• MSc - Limnology, York University
• BSc - Ecology, Carleton University

Research Interests

• Fisheries oceanography; field and laboratory. Focus on physical, ecological biochemical and genetic influences on early life history and recruitment in fish and on fish population structure and distribution. Recent research initiatives are related to the plight of the endangered Atlantic right whale.

4160.03/5160.03: Fisheries Oceanography
MARA 5003.03: Marine Science and Technology

Bradbury, I.R., S. Hubert, B. Higgins, T. Borza, S. Bowman, I.G. Paterson, P.V. Snelgrove, C.J. Morris, R.S. Gregory, D.C. Hardie, J.A. Hutchings, D.E. Ruzzante, C.T. Taggart, and P. Bentzen - 2010 - Parallel adaptive evolution of Atlantic cod on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in response to temperature - Proceedings of the Royal Society, B.277(1701): 3725-3734

Neuheimer, A.B., and C.T. Taggart - 2010 - Can changes in length-at-age and maturation timing in Scotian Shelf haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) be explained by fishing? - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 67(5): 854:865

Oskarsson, G.J. and C.T. Taggart - 2010 - Variation in reproductive potential and influence on Icelandic herring recruitment - Fisheries Oceanography, 9: 412-426

Landry, M.S. and C.T. Taggart - 2010 - Turtle watching" conservation guidelines: Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) tourism in nearshore coastal environments - Biodiversity and Conservation, 91: 305:312

Oskarsson, G.J. and C.T. Taggart - 2009 - Spawning time variation in Icelandic summer-spawning herring (Clupea harengus L.) - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 66, 1666-1681

Elvin, S. and C.T. Taggart - 2008 - Right whales and vessels in Canadian waters - Marine Policy, 32, 379-386

Michaud, J. and C.T. Taggart - 2007 - Lipid and gross energy-content of North Atlantic right whale food (Calanus finmarchicus) in the Bay of Fundy - Endangered Species Research, 3, 77-94

MacDougall, L. A., R. McCall, K. A. Douglas, T. A. Cheney, M. Oetelaar, K. Squires, C. V. Alvarez Saules, H. Alidina, E. Nagtegaal-Cunningham, S. C. Weseloh McKeane, J. J. Y. Araula, N. Md. Humayun, S. Lawson, N. C. Chiasson, G. C. Diaz, T. A. Choy, K. E. Ankamah, B. O. Ohowa, A. T. Toribio, J. J. del Toro, R. O. Fournier, and C. T. Taggart - 2006 - Marine Invasive Species in North America: Impacts, Pathways and Management - Ocean Yearbook, 20:435-470

Oskarsson, G.J. and C.T. Taggart - 2006 - Fecundity variation in Icelandic summer-spawning herring and implications for reproductive potential - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 63:493-503

Uehara, S., C.T. Taggart, T. Mitani and I. Suthers - 2006 - The abundance of juvenile yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata) near the Kuroshio Current: the roles of drifting seaweed and regional hydrography - Fisheries Oceanography, 15:351-362

Suthers, Iain M., C. T. Taggart, D. Rissik, M. E. Baird - 2006 - Day and night ichthyoplankton assemblages and zooplankton biomass size spectrum in a deep ocean island wake - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 322:225-238

Reiss, C. S., I. A. McLaren, P. Avendano, and C. T. Taggart - 2005 - Feeding ecology of Silver Hake larvae on Western Bank, Scotian Shelf, and comparison with Atlantic Cod - Journal of Fish Biology, 66(3):703-720

Gordos, K., E. Kenchington, L. C. Hamilton, B. S. Nakashima, and C. T. Taggart - 2005 - Atlantic capelin (Malltus villosus) tetranucleotide microsatellites - Molecular Ecology Notes, 5(2): 220-222

Panteleev, G.G., B. deYoung, C.S. Reiss and C.T. Taggart. - 2004 - Passive tracer reconstruction as a least-squares problem with a semi-Lagrangian constraint: An application to fish eggs and larvae - Journal of Marine Research. 62, 787-814.

Suthers, I.M., C.T. Taggart, D.E. Kelley, D. Rissik and J.H. Middleton - 2004 - Entrainment and advection in an island's tidal wake, as revealed by light attenuance, zooplankton and ichtyoplankton - Limnology and Oceanography, 49, 283-296

McPherson, A. A., P. T. O'Reilly, and C. T. Taggart - 2004 - Genetic differentiation, temporal stability, and the absence of isolation by distance among Atlantic herring populations - Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 133:434-446

Vanderlaan, A.S.M., J.J. Corbett, S.L. Green, J.A. Callahan, C. Wang, R.D. Kenney, C.T. Taggart, and J. Firestone - 2009 - Probability and mitigation of vessel encounters with North Atlantic right whales - Endangered Species Research, 6, 273-285

Vanderlaan, A.S.M., and C.T. Taggart - 2009 - Efficacy of a voluntary area to be avoided to reduce risk of lethal vessel strikes to endangered whales - Conservation Biology, 23(6), 1467-1474

Neuheimer, A.B., C.T. Taggart and K.T. Frank - 2008 - Size-at-age in haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus): Application of the growing degree day (GDD) metric - p.111-124 in: G.H. Kruse, K. Drinkwater, J.N. Ianelli, J.S. Link, D.L. Stram, V. Wespestad, and D. Woodby (eds.), Resiliancy of gadid stocks to fishing and climate change. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, AK-SG-08-01

Vanderlaan, A.S.M., C.T. Taggart, A.R. Serdynska, R.D. Kenney, and M.W. Brown - 2008 - Reducing the risk of lethal encounters: vessels and right whales in the Bay of Fundy and on the Scotian Shelf - Endangered Species Research, 4, 283-297

Bard, S.M., B.R. Ruddick, and C.T. Taggart - 2008 - The flux of stuff: Developing an inexpensive and accurate method to track dispersion of environmental contaminants in aquatic ecosystems - Marine Environmental Research, 66, 187-189 (published abstract)

Neuheimer, A.B. and C.T. Taggart - 2007 - Growing degree-day and fish size-at-age: The overlooked metric - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 64, 375-385

Vanderlaan, A.S.M. and C.T. Taggart - 2007 - Vessel collisions with whales: the probability of lethal injury based on vessel speed - Marine Mammal Science, 23:144-156

Johnston, T.L., R.K. Smedbol, A. Serdynska, A. Vanderlaan, N. Helcl, L. Harris, and C.T. Taggart - 2007 - Patterns of fishing gear in areas of the Bay of Fundy and southwest Scotian Shelf frequented by North Atlantic right whales - Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2745:v+52p