BLaST One Health seminar: Harmful blooms in the aquatic environment
March 15, 2021
The One Health seminar speaker series sponsored by the Biomedical Learning and Student
Training program and the Center for One Health Research will host their next seminar
Monday, March 22, from 4-5 p.m. All students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend
these virtual events. Please register in advance. Recordings will be made available on the media.uaf.edu website.
Presenter: Morag Clinton, associate professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine,
UAF
Presentation title: “Harmful Blooms in the Aquatic Environment; Exploring the Impact
on Animal Health”
Registration link
Download a flyer here (JPG).
Morag Clinton is a fish health specialist with a degree in veterinary medicine and
surgery from the AVMA-accredited School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of
Glasgow and earned her Ph.D. in molecular microbiology and pathology from the University
of St. Andrews, both institutions in Scotland. Her recent work included aquaculture
production and academic research as well as research within various government agencies
including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Marine Scotland.
She was a veterinary aquatic pathologist for the Centre for Environment, Fisheries
and Aquaculture Science, England. She is now an assistant professor in the Department
of Veterinary Medicine at UAF teaching veterinary anatomy and introduces a new class
on aquatic animal health.
Learn more about One Health or BLaST. For more information about the seminars, contact the One Health team at uaf-onehealth-team@alaska.edu.
