Person

Lobban, Christopher S.

1950

Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Guam, Scientific writing and biology. Christopher Simon Lobban, Ph.D., [webmaster] Professor Emeritus of Biology (marine biologist) at University of Guam. Born in Bristol, UK in 1950 and grew up in Lytham, Lancs. His parents emigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada in 1965, and he emigrated from Canada to Guam (USA) in 1988, after starting his academic career at University of New Brunswick, Saint John. He has coauthored or coedited several books, and published research papers on biodiversity of diatoms and on a ciliate-zooxanthellae symbiosis called Maristentor. In 2020 he named a diatom species in remembrance of his grandfather Alexander Lobban (1877–1949), son of Rev. Alexander Lobban (1847–1903), and three other Alexanders in his fatherline, back to 1702. His partner in much of this has been his wife, María Schefter. Her ancestors go back to Alsace and to early French settlers in Canada.