Robert Michael Lee McKay is a Canadian microbiologist and presently the executive director and a professor of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, School of Environment, at the University of Windsor.[1] McKay's research interest center around the physiological ecology of phytoplankton communities in large lakes and oceans. His efforts focus on environmental microbiology including harmful cyanobacterial blooms and blooms of ice-associated algae in the Great Lakes.
McKay collecting a plankton net sample in February 2007
McKay's research is focused on large lakes with some forays into ocean sciences. He has worked in locations including the Southern Ocean, the Baltic Sea, Lake Balaton (Hungary) and the Laurentian Great Lakes. He studies the microbial ecology of these systems, including harmful cyanobacterial blooms[5][6] and blooms of ice-associated algae in the Great Lakes,[7] often teaming with his BGSU colleagues George Bullerjahn and Hans Paerl.[8][9][10] During the COVID-19 pandemic, his lab group made a transition to wastewater surveillance in support of public health. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts[11] and serves as an investigator on grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council,[12] Canada Foundation for Innovation, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, U.S. National Science Foundation,[13] and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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