Overview

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 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).

Instruction 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.

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Honors, Awards and Appointments

• Fellow of The Oceanographic Society - 2008
• Faculty Innovation in Teaching Fellow, Cornell University - 2001
• Merrill Presidential Scholar Outstanding Educator, Cornell University - 1999
• J.P. and Mary Barger Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Cornell University - 1998

Professional Activities

• "Influence of Recent Changes in the Arctic on Sub-arctic and Mid-latitude Marine Ecosystems, " ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL: March 2008. Organizers: Andrew Pershing, David Mountain, Igor Belkin, and Charles Greene. - 2008
• "Responses of NW Atlantic Shelf Ecosystems to Arctic Climate Change, " Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, Maine: November 2006. Organizers: Andrew Pershing and Charles Greene. - 2006
• "Climate-Based Assessment and Forecasting of Ecosystems in the Gulf of Maine, " Boston, Massachusetts: December 2004. Organizers: Andrew Pershing and Charles Greene. - 2004
• Greene, C.H., and A.J. Pershing. Biocomplexity and climate: recovery of the North Atlantic right whale population in the context of climate-induced changes in oceanographic processes. Climate Change and Aquatic Systems, Plymouth, England; July 2004. - 2004
• Greene, C.H. Oceanographic responses to climate variability in the Northwest Atlantic. Coordinating Research on the North Atlantic (CORONA) Workshop, Plymouth, England; July 2004. - 2004
• "Marine Ecosystem Responses to Climate: The Responses of Large Marine Ecosystems to Interdecadal-Scale Climate Variability. " American Society of Limnology and Oceanography/American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii; February 2002. Organizers: Charles Greene, Michael Fogarty, and Nathan Mantua. - 2002
• Greene, C.H., and A.J. Pershing. Trans-Atlantic responses of Calanus finmarchicus to basin-scale forcing associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation. 70th Anniversary of the Continuous Plankton Recorder Surveys of North Atlantic Symposium, Edinburgh, Scotland; August 2001. - 2001
• "Response of NW Atlantic Marine Ecosystems to Climate Variability, " National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA; Spring 2001. Organizer: Charles Greene. - 2001
• "The Response of Northeast and Northwest Atlantic Shelf Ecosystems to Climate Variability and Change. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Summer Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark; June 2000, Organizers: Charles Greene and Benjamin Planque. - 2000
• Greene, C.H., and A.J. Pershing. Trans-Atlantic responses of Calanus finmarchicus to basin-scale forcing associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation. American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on the North Atlantic Oscillation, Ourense, Spain; November 2000. - 2000

Selected Publications

• 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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