Robert M. L. McKay

Robert Michael Lee McKay is a Canadian microbiologist and presently the executive director and a professor of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, School of Environment, at the University of Windsor.

[1] McKay's research interest center around the physiological ecology of phytoplankton communities in large lakes and oceans.

In 1997, McKay accepted a faculty position at Bowling Green State University where he rose to the rank of full professor.

McKay was named a Humboldt Scholar in 2005 by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

[14] In 2019, his collaborations with a number of researchers earned the John H Martin Award[15] from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.