Jeffrey R. Taylor

Jeffrey Taylor is the Associate Vice-President of Applied Research and Innovation at the Nova Scotia Community College, the only publicly funded college in Nova Scotia. He is privileged to oversee thriving entrepreneurship, research, innovation, international programming, industry engagement, technology access, and strategic partnership activities at all 20 College locations across the province.

In his career as a research scientist, Dr. Taylor worked on large satellite data projects at the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, and the National Centre for Atmospheric Research. He also helped lead the development and construction of the National Ecological Observatory Network, the first continental-scale observatory, which publishes over 170 live data products from 81 sites every hour.

Dr. Taylor is on the Board of Directors of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, is the Chair of the National Research Advisory Council, sits on the Board of Springboard Atlantic, and teaches in Colleges and Institutes Canada’s National Leadership Institute. Prior to NSCC, Jeff worked in various positions in academia at the University of Waterloo, the University of Colorado, the University of Denver, the National Ecological Observatory Network, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He is a graduate of the National Science Foundation’s Leadership Collaboratory Executive Management Program and has a PhD in Physics from the University of Toronto.

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