Michael R. Twiss is a limnologist (fresh water scientist) with expertise in the microbial plankton ecology of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River system and interactions of plankton with elements in the water column. Twiss was a member of the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Biology at Ryerson University from 1999 to 2002. He holds an honours Bachelor of Science degree in biology and environmental science from Trent University, a Master’s degree in botany and environmental studies from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in science de l’eau (limnology) from the Université du Québec, where his thesis was awarded the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal for Academic Excellence. Twiss conducted a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1996-1998. His research has been funded by such agencies as the National Science Foundation, the St. Lawrence River Research and Education Fund of the New York Power Authority, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, New York Sea Grant, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and others. Twiss is a member of the St. Lawrence River at Massena Area of Concern Remedial Action Committee, a panel reviewer for granting agencies (NSF, NSERC), and an editor. He was associate editor of the Journal of Phycology from 2005 to 2012, and is on the editorial board of Frontiers in Aquatic Microbiology. Since 2002, Twiss has been a professor of Biology in the School of Arts & Sciences at Clarkson University.

Fonds consists of one article authored by Twiss.