Terry McTigue is an ecologist, specializing in habitat restoration and benthic ecology. Terry has a BS in Zoology from the University of Maryland, an MS in Marine Science from the University of South Carolina, and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. She joined NOAA in 1987 while a graduate student at Texas A&M, where she was studying salt marsh ecology in Galveston Bay and the feeding habits of penaeid shrimp. Upon graduation, McTigue opened an office for NOAA in Lafayette LA where she worked on the restoration of coastal habitats ranging from freshwater wetlands to barrier islands, managing restoration projects that covered over 20,000 acres in south Louisiana. In 1999, she moved back to her home state of Maryland and has since worked for NOAA restoration and environmental quality issues nationwide. McTigue currently is involved with the restoration of mesophotic and deep benthic communities in the Gulf of Mexico that were impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Additionally, she works in field sampling in support of the forecasting of harmful algal blooms in the Gulf of Maine and around the Kodiak (AK) Archipelago.
You can find more about Terry's work at https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/
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