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Robert R.L. Guillard

Senior Research Scientist
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
P.O. Box 475
180 McKown Point Road
West Boothbay Harbor, ME   04575-0475
U.S.A.
Phone: 207 633 9600
Fax: 207 633 9641

Education

Research Interests

Dr. Guillard's research interests are physiology and ecology of phytoplankton; influence of environmental factors, especially trace metals, on the growth of marine phytoplankton; life cycles and systematics of diatoms; speciation in planktonic diatoms; phytoplankton as food for marine animals; systematics and physiological ecology of marine ultraplankton. Bigelow Laboratory's Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton was dedicated in honor of Dr. Guillard and Dr. Luigi Provosoli for their pioneering achievements in the culture of marine phytoplankton.