Bio:
Patricia Glibert is a professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Port Laboratory, where she has been teaching since 1986. Prior to UMCES, she worked as a postdoctoral scholar and later as assistant scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her research areas are in transformations and fate of inorganic and organic nitrogen in marine and estuarine systems; ecology of phytoplankton in coastal and oceanic environments; stable isotope techniques; eutrophication and its effects and global changes; growth and physiology of marine cyanobacteria and harmful algal bloom species; “top-down” control of nitrogen cycling; primary productivity and its regulation by environmental factors; and impacts of harmful algae on oysters. Her current projects are in the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Coastal Bays, and Florida Bay. She received her B.S. in biology from Skidmore College; M.S. in earth science from the University of New Hampshire; and her Ph.D. in organismal and evolutionary biology from Harvard University.
