Christine Maggs

Christine Adair Maggs (born 8 June 1956) is a British phycologist.^[5] Formerly Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science & Technology at Bournemouth University,^[1] she was the first Chief Scientist of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, retiring in 2022. She is now an independent non-executive Director of Ocean Harvest Technology https://oceanharvesttechnology.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/

Christine A. Maggs
Born	Christine Adair Maggs (1956-06-08) 8 June 1956 (age 67)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA, MA Oxon)^[1] NUI Galway (PhD)
Awards	Elected member Royal Irish Academy (2013)^[1] Phycological Society of America Award of Excellence (2014)^[2] Phycological Society of America Prescott Award (1995)^[3] Phycological Society of America Provasoli award (1994)^[4]
Scientific career
Fields	phycology systematics
Institutions	University of Oxford NUI Galway Queen's University Belfast Bournemouth University
Thesis	A phenological study of two maerl beds in Galway Bay, Ireland^[5]  (1983)
Website	staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/cmaggs

Education

Maggs graduated with a Botany degree from St Catherine's College, Oxford in 1978^[1] and a PhD from National University of Ireland, Galway in 1983.^[1][5]

Research and career

Maggs worked as a postdoc at the Atlantic Research Laboratory, Nova Scotia, Canada and Queen's University Belfast (the latter on an Advanced Natural Environment Research Council Fellowship), before taking up a post as a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast in 1995. Her main research interests are molecular systematics of seaweeds with particular interests in alien marine algae and plants,^[6] biological conservation, and sustainable seaweed exploitation. The majority of her publications focus on red algae (Rhodophyta),^[7][8] although she has also published on brown algae^[9] and green algae, notably showing that Linnaeus was correct in his assertion that the genera Ulva and Enteromorpha were not distinct.^[10] She has described two new orders (Ahnfeltiales^[11] and Atractophorales^[7]) of alga, and three new families (Ahnfeltiaceae,^[11] Atractophoraceae,^[7] and Haemeschariaceae^[12]). She has published over a hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers.^[13]

She has written three books on seaweeds: Seasearch Guide to Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland,^[14] Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland,^[15] and Seaweeds of the British Isles.^[16]

Editorial work

Professor Maggs has been the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Phycology for 20 years (1994-2004; joint Editor-in-Chief from 2010) and is a Managing Editor of the new BPS journal Applied Phycology, with Prof. Juliet Brodie and Editor-in-Chief Prof. John Beardall.^[17] She was Associate Editor of Journal of Biogeography from 2007-2014,^[18][19] Associate Editor of Journal of Phycology (2009–10),^[20][21] and from 1991-1993 she was Associate Editor of Phycologia,^[22][23][24] the bi-monthly journal of the International Phycological Society.

Diversity work

Professor Maggs led the Queen's University Belfast School of Biological Sciences application for an Athena SWAN Gold Award.^[25] This successful application made Queen's University Belfast the recipient of only the third departmental Athena SWAN Gold award.^[26] In 2017, Professor Maggs was awarded the British Ecological Society Equality and Diversity Champion award.^[27]

Awards and honours

In 2013, Professor Maggs was elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy.^[1] Professor Maggs is a two-time recipient, in 1994 and 2018, of the Phycological Society of America Provasoli award for the most outstanding paper published in the Journal of Phycology.^[4] She also received the Phycological Society of America Prescott Award in 1995,^[3] and the Phycological Society of America Award of Excellence in 2014.^[2]

References

1. "Membership Directory: Christine A Maggs". Royal Irish Academy. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
2. "Award of Excellence". Phycological Society of America.
3. "Prescott Award". Phycological Society of America.
4. "Provasoli Award". Phycological Society of America.
5. Maggs, Christine (1983). A phenological study of the epiflora of two maerl beds in Galway Bay. NUI Galway: Unpublished PhD Thesis.
6. Kelly, R., Harrod, C., Maggs, C.A. & Reid, N. (2015). "Effects of Elodea nuttallii on temperate freshwater plants, microalgae and invertebrates: small differences between invaded and uninvaded areas". Biological Invasions. 17 (7): 2123–2138. Bibcode:2015BiInv..17.2123K. doi:10.1007/s10530-015-0865-8. S2CID 254289363.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
7. Saunders, G.W., Filloramo, G., Dixon, K., Le Gall, L., Maggs, C.A. & Kraft, G.T. (2016). "Multigene analyses resolve early diverging lineages in the Rhodymeniophycidae (Florideophyceae, Rhodphyta)" (PDF). Journal of Phycology. 52 (4): 505–522. Bibcode:2016JPcgy..52..505S. doi:10.1111/jpy.12426. PMID 27150836.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
8. Provan, J., Glendinning, K., Kelly, R. & Maggs, C.A. (2013). "Levels and patterns of population genetic diversity in the red seaweed Chondrus crispus (Florideophyceae): a direct comparison of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and microsatellites". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 108 (2): 251–262. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.02010.x.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
9. Yesson, C., Bush, L.E., Davies, A.J., Maggs, C.A. & Brodie, J. (2015). "Large brown seaweeds of the British Isles: evidence of changes in abundance over four decades". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 155: 167–175. Bibcode:2015ECSS..155..167Y. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2015.01.008.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
10. Hayden, H.S., Blomster, J., Maggs, C.A., Silva, P.C., Stanhope, M.J. and Waaland, J. R. (2003). "Linnaeus was right all along: Ulva and Enteromorpha are not distinct genera". European Journal of Phycology. 38 (3): 277–294. Bibcode:2003EJPhy..38..277H. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.330.5106. doi:10.1080/1364253031000136321. S2CID 18856367.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
11. Maggs, C.A. & Pueschel, C.M. (1989). "Morphology and development of Ahnfeltia plicata (Rhodophyta): proposal of Ahnfeltiales ord. nov". Journal of Phycology. 25 (2): 333–351. Bibcode:1989JPcgy..25..333M. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.1989.tb00131.x. S2CID 85129205.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
12. Wilce, R.T. & Maggs, C.A. (1989). "Reinstatement of the genus Haemescharia (Rhodophyta, Haemeschariaceae fam. nov.) for H. polygyna and H. hennedyi comb. nov. (=Petrocelis hennedyi)". Canadian Journal of Botany. 67 (5): 1465–1479. doi:10.1139/b89-196.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
13. "Christine Maggs". ORCID. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
14. Bunker, F., Brodie, J.A, Maggs, C.A. & Bunker, A. (210). Seasearch Guide to Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. Marine Conservation Society.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
15. Brodie, J., Maggs, C.A. & John, D.M. (Eds) (2007). Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. London: British Phycological Society. ISBN 9780952711537.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
16. Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1 Rhodophyta, Part 3A Ceramiales. London: Natural History Museum/HMSO. ISBN 978-1907807718.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
17. "Editorial board". European Journal of Phycology. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
18. Journal of Biogeography, 34. Wiley. 2007.
19. Journal of Biogeography, 41. Wiley. 2014.
20. Journal of Phycology, 45. Wiley. 2009.
21. Journal of Phycology, 46. Wiley. 2010.
22. "Officers". Phycologia. 30: i. 1991. doi:10.2216/0031-8884-30.1.i.
23. "Officers". Phycologia. 31: i. 1992. doi:10.2216/0031-8884-31.1.i.
24. "Officers". Phycologia. 32: i. 1993. doi:10.2216/0031-8884-32.1.i.
25. "Athena SWAN Gold department award application" (PDF). Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
26. Gibney, Elizabeth (25 April 2013). "Athena SWAN applications soar". Retrieved 9 March 2017.
27. JNCC press release. "Professor Christine Maggs wins the British Ecological Society Equality and Diversity Champion award". JNCC. Retrieved 14 December 2017.