Stephanie Anderson

Dr. Stephanie Anderson is a research ecologist focusing on marine phytoplankton, including harmful algal bloom (HAB) species, and their community responses to environmental change such as ocean warming, eutrophication, and marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) methods. Her collaborative projects use field data, historical observations, and models to discern how changes in ocean chemistry and physical properties impact water quality and biological productivity.

Stephanie is currently on sabbatical from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she serves as a Research Ecologist. Previously, she was a Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked under the direction of Dr. Stephanie Dutkiewicz examining phytoplankton thermal trait differentiation in a modeled ocean. For her doctoral dissertation with Dr. Tatiana Rynearson at the University of Rhode Island, Stephanie employed experimental, molecular, and modeling approaches to investigate the role of temperature in driving phytoplankton physiology, community structure, and biogeography.