Keywords

  • biological oceanography
  • climate impacts
  • conservation oceanography
  • fisheries oceanography
  • marine bioacoustics
  • marine ecology
  • ocean sciences

Greene, Charles H

Professor
My research focuses on the impacts of climate variability and change on marine ecosystems. Recent research efforts have resulted in major breakthroughs in our understanding of climate impacts on the contiental shelf ecosystems of the NW Atlantic. I have also recently led efforts to promote the emerging new field of Conservation Oceanography. Conservation Oceanography incorporates the latest advances in sensor technology, ocean observing systems, and computational methods to provide resource managers and policy makers with the information they need to ensure the sustainability of both exploited and protected marine populations.

research

research and scholarship focus

The focus of my NW Atlantic research has shifted from field studies to retrospective analyses of remote-sensing and time-series data. This shift has enabled me to interpret the results of our previous field studies in the context of patterns developing over inter-annual to inter-decadal time scales. This work is done in the context of a working group I organized in 2000 called Marine Ecosystem Responses to Climate in the North Atlantic (MERCINA). ||New field research is being developed in Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest to compliment my ongoing training efforts in bioacoustical oceanography (see instruction focus below).

research areas

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affiliations

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teaching

teaching focus

I actively integrate educational activities in my research, promoting field courses for Cornell students as well as students from around the world. Currently, I am organizing summer and winter courses with a 5-year grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to train biology, biological oceanography, and applied ocean engineering students in the cutting-edge technologies and methods utilized in bioacoustical oceanography. This is the sixth in a series of grants awarded from ONR and NSF since 1993 to support such training courses. Between 1993 and 2008, we have trained over 165 undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students from 25 countries in these courses.

background

educational background

B.A. 1978 (University of Colorado)
Ph.D. 1985 (University of Washington)

professional background

After receiving his PhD in Oceanography from the University of Washington in 1985, Greene began a postdoctoral fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He maintains a visiting investigator position at WHOI to this day. In 1986, he joined the faculty at Cornell as a visiting assistant professor in the Section of Ecology & Sytematics. Through the years at Cornell, he has served as the Director for the Biological Resources Program and the Ocean Resources & Ecosystems Program in the Center for the Environment. Currently, Greene is a professor in the Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences.

awards and distinctions

  • 2001 Faculty Innovation in Teaching Fellow, Cornell University
  • 1999 Merrill Presidential Scholar Outstanding Educator, Cornell University
  • 1998 J.P. and Mary Barger Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Cornell University
  • 1979 Award for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Oceanography, School of Oceanography, University of Washington

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • Greene, C.H., A.J. Pershing, T.M. Cronin, and N. Cecci. 2008. Arctic climate change and its impacts on the ecology of the North Atlantic. Ecology: in press.
  • Greene, C.H., and A.J. Pershing. 2007. Climate drives sea change. Science 315: 1084-1085.
  • Pershing, A.J., C.H. Greene, J.W. Jossi, L. O'Brien, J.K.T. Brodziak, and B.A. Bailey. 2005. Interdecadal variability in the Gulf of Maine zooplankton community with potential impacts on fish recruitment. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 62: 511-523.
  • Greene, C.H., and A.J. Pershing. 2004. Climate and the conservation biology of North Atlantic right whales: being a right whale at the wrong time? Front. Ecol. Environ. 2: 29-34.
  • MERCINA. 2004. Supply-side ecology and the response of zooplankton to climate-driven changes in North Atlantic Ocean circulation. Oceanogr. 17(3): 10-21.
  • Greene, C.H., and A.J. Pershing. 2003. The flip-side of the North Atlantic Oscillation and modal shifts in slope-water circulation patterns. Limnol. Oceanogr. 48: 319-322.
  • Greene, C.H., A.J. Pershing, R.D. Kenney, and J.W. Jossi. 2003. Impact of climate variability on the recovery of endangered North Atlantic right whales. Oceanography 16: 96-101.
  • MERCINA. 2003. Trans-Atlantic responses of Calanus finmarchicus populations to basin-scale forcing associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation. Prog. Oceanogr. 58: 301-312.
  • MERCINA. 2001. Oceanographic responses to climate in the Northwest Atlantic. Oceanography 14: 77-83.
  • Greene, C.H., and A.J. Pershing. 2000. The response of Calanus finmarchicus populations to climate variability in the Northwest Atlantic: Basin-scale forcing associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 57: 1536-1544.

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Keywords: biological oceanography, climate impacts, conservation oceanography, fisheries oceanography, marine bioacoustics, marine ecology, ocean sciences