Biography

Dr. Kevin B. Strychar received his Bachelor and Master degrees inBiology and Microbiology from the University of New Brunswick inCanada. His Doctorate degree in 2002 is from Central QueenslandUniversity in Australia, where he studied conservation science with an emphasis on globalwarming and climate change. He has done Post-doctorate fellowships at the University of Connecticut, where he studied pollution and organisms in Long Island Sound, and at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, where he studied genetics and deep-seaorganisms. From 2005 to 2012, he was teaching and doing research at Texas A&MUniversity, where his focus was marine microbiology with a specialty in climate science andcoral reef ecosystems. In 2012, he moved to a research position at the Annis WaterResources Institute, Grand Valley State University (Michigan), where he continues to studyclimate change on marine ecosystems but has expanded his focus to include the freshwaterhabitats of the Great Lakes. He also holds an adjunct position at Michigan State University,Department of Zoology. Over his short academic career (~10 years), he has secured morethan $3 million dollars in research, published more than 35 papers, attended, spoke, andchaired at more than 100 national and international conferences including most recently,Israel, and helped supervise more than 50 students.