An environmental analytical chemist and ecotoxicologist with 15 years’ post-doc experience and 76 publications in international journals and books. Particular expertise in analytical chemistry, environmental sampling and monitoring, soil science, wildlife forensics and ecotoxicology.
2013-current > Senior Research Fellow and Theme Leader, ERI-UHI
2011-2013 > Research Fellow, ERI-UHI
2007-2011 > ‘Juan De La Cierva’ Research Fellow, Univ. Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain
2005-2007 > Research And Teaching Fellow, Univ. Aberdeen
2003-2005 > Post-Doc Research And Teaching Assistant, Univ. Aberdeen
2016-2019. “Tracking the prevalence of NSAIDs available to vultures across the Indian sub-continent”. RSPB funded.
2016-2021. “Phos4YOU – PHOSphorus Recovery from waste water FOR YOUr Life”, led by Lippeverband. INTERREG VB NW.
2018-2019. SFC Innovation Voucher – “BIOMATRIX – New applications for Floating Ecosystem Technology – sustainably revitalizing polluted water.”
2017-2019. UHI GCRF. “Assessing the risk of veterinary drugs to Critically Endangered vultures in Pakistan and Bangladesh”.
2018-2019. MASTS-CREW. “Reduction of pharmaceuticals in the water environment: Baseline assessment and recommendations”.
Cuthbert, R.J., Taggart, M.A., Prakash, V., Chakraborty, S.S., Deori, P., Galligan, T., Kulkarni, M., Ranade, S., Saini, M., Sharma, A.K., Shringarpure, R., Green, R.E., 2014. Avian scavengers and the threat from veterinary pharmaceuticals. Royal Society Philosophical Transactions B 369, 20130574.
Margalida, A., Bogliani, G., Bowden, C.G.R., Donázar, J.A., Genero, F., Gilbert, M., Karesh, W., Kock, R., Lubroth, J., Manteca, X., Naidoo, V., Neimanis, A., Sánchez-Zapata, J.A., Taggart, M.A., Vaarten, J., Yon, L., Kuiken, T., Green, R.E., 2014. One Health Approach to the use of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals. Science 346, 1296-1298.
Taggart, M.A., Richards, N., Kinney, C., 2015. Impacts of Pharmaceuticals on Terrestrial Wildlife. In: Pharmacueticals in the Environment. Edited by Hester, R.E., Harrison, R.M., Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing, Chapter 7, pages 216-254, DOI: 10.1039/9781782622345-00216. A BOOK CHAPTER.
Sanchez, M.I., Pons, I., Martinez-Haro, M, Taggart, M.A., Lenomand, T., Green, A.J., 2016. When Parasites are Good for Health: Cestode Parasitism Increases Resistance to Arsenic in Brine Shrimps. PLoS Pathogens 12, e1005459.
Richards, N., Gilbert, M., Taggart, M.A., Naidoo, V., 2017. A cautionary tale: Diclofenac and its profound impact on vultures. In: Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene. Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09990-5. A BOOK CHAPTER.
