Senior Scientist, Acadian Plant Health (a division of Acadian Seaplants Limited)
Dr. Norrie’s career has focused on stress physiology, plant growth regulators, nutrition and biostimulant applications in fruit and vegetable crops, turf, and ornamentals. He has a strong background in greenhouse vegetable crop physiology and management with emphasis on substrate dynamics and water/environmental effects on plant nutrition. As a leader at Acadian Plant Health, he oversees research with universities, government agencies, and private R&D groups in more than 40 countries on marine-plant products as fertilizers and biostimulants in agriculture. Widely published, he is Adjunct Associate at Dalhousie University; past-VP-Industry and Fellow, American Society for Horticultural Science; past-President, Plant Growth Regulation Society of America; and past-President, Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists.
