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Christopher Parrish (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)

Chris Parrish is a University Research Professor in the Department of Ocean Sciences at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is cross-appointed to MUN’s Departments of Chemistry and Biology and is the Graduate Officer of MUN’s Marine Biology Programme. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Université Laval, Québec, and an External Graduate Faculty Member at the School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine. His research focuses on the production, transport, fate and effects of hydrophobic organic matter in the marine environment. He has developed analytical methods and numerical approaches for lipids that have been widely used to trace formation and consumption of energy and essential nutrients in marine systems. Together with students in several academic programmes he studies food web connections, aquaculture nutrition, and environmental impacts of aquaculture and their mitigation. Their work has produced key findings on the ecological importance of marine lipids as energy sources and as essential nutrients, and on effects of marine oils in aquaculture leading to ways to minimize environmental impacts of aquaculture and to maximize the healthfulness of the food product.

 Keynote talk: Nutritional and Biomarker Lipids in Marine Food Webs