Dianne Greenfield
Dr. Dianne Greenfield studies the complex environmental feedbacks between global change stressors (such as urbanization, nutrients, and climate) and coastal phytoplankton ecology, physiology, and biogeochemistry. This includes understanding the causes and consequences of ‘harmful algal blooms’ (HABs), events produced by a subset of phytoplankton species that result in negative ecological and/or health impacts when populations become numerically or physiologically dominant.
Greenfield and her lab develop and apply novel molecular tools to better study plankton populations in situ and combine these advances with traditional field and laboratory approaches. Since phytoplankton dynamics are central to ecosystem productivity, Greenfield and her lab also try to understand their linkages with coastal trophic structure.
Dr. Greenfield joined the Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center in 2017; she also is an Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College. Prior to that time, Greenfield was in Charleston, SC with the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina with a joint appointment at the Marine Resources Research Institute (SCDNR).
Dr. Greenfield completed her BA from Mount Holyoke College, MS from Tulane University, PhD from Stony Brook University, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
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