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Environmental Sciences
USA
2026

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Environmental Sciences

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114
Citations
50891
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165
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award

Overview

Donald M. Anderson is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research spans fields including Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in their work include Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Toxins and Detection Methods, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and coastal plant biology, Protist diversity and phylogeny, and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics.

Anderson's publication record shows frequent contributions to several journals and venues. Notably, they have published 12 papers in Harmful Algae, 6 in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 3 in Toxins, 2 in Nature, and 2 in the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans.

Recent significant papers include:

  • Marine harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the United States: History, current status and future trends, 2021, Harmful Algae
  • Evidence for massive and recurrent toxic blooms of Alexandrium catenella in the Alaskan Arctic, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Human Health and Ocean Pollution, 2020, Annals of Global Health
  • Coastal phytoplankton blooms expand and intensify in the 21st century, 2023, Nature
  • Perceived global increase in algal blooms is attributable to intensified monitoring and emerging bloom impacts, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Anderson include Evangeline Fachon, Robert S. Pickart, Kathi A. Lefebvre, Mindy L. Richlen, and Peigen Lin.

Best Publications

  • Harmful Algal Blooms and Eutrophication: Nutrient Sources, Composition, and Consequences

    Donald M. Anderson;Patricia M. Glibert;Joann M. Burkholder

  • Eutrophication and harmful algal blooms: A scientific consensus

    J. Heisler;P.M. Glibert;J.M. Burkholder;D.M. Anderson

  • Toxic Marine Phytoplankton

    Edna Granéli;B Sundström;L Edler;DM Anderson

  • Physiological ecology of harmful algal blooms

    D. M. Anderson;Allan Cembella;G. M. Hallegraeff

  • Progress in understanding harmful algal blooms: paradigm shifts and new technologies for research, monitoring, and management.

    Donald M. Anderson;Allan D. Cembella;Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff

  • Manual on Harmful Marine Microalgae

    G.M. Hallegraeff;D.M. Anderson;A.D. Cembella

  • Harmful algal blooms and climate change: Learning from the past and present to forecast the future.

    Mark L. Wells;Vera L. Trainer;Theodore J. Smayda;Bengt S.O. Karlson

  • Harmful algal blooms and eutrophication: Examining linkages from selected coastal regions of the United States

    Donald M. Anderson;Joann M. Burkholder;William P. Cochlan;Patricia M. Glibert

  • IDENTIFICATION OF GROUP- AND STRAIN-SPECIFIC GENETIC MARKERS FOR GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED ALEXANDRIUM (DINOPHYCEAE). II. SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF A FRAGMENT OF THE LSU rRNA GENE1

    Christopher A. Scholin;Michel Herzog;Mitchell Sogin;Donald M. Anderson

  • The globally distributed genus Alexandrium: multifaceted roles in marine ecosystems and impacts on human health.

    Donald M. Anderson;Tilman J. Alpermann;Allan D. Cembella;Yves Collos

  • Approaches to monitoring, control and management of harmful algal blooms (HABs).

    Donald M. Anderson

  • Turning back the harmful red tide

    Donald M. Anderson

  • The global, complex phenomena of harmful algal blooms

    Patricia M. Glibert;Donald M. Anderson;Patrick Gentien;Edna Graneli

  • Toxic algal blooms and red tides : a global perspective.

    D. M. Anderson

  • Human Health and Ocean Pollution.

    Philip J Landrigan;John J Stegeman;Lora E Fleming;Denis Allemand

  • Copper sensitivity of Gonyaulax tamarensis 1

    D. M. Anderson;Francois M. M. Morel

  • Coastal phytoplankton blooms expand and intensify in the 21st century

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  • POTENTIAL IMPORTANCE OF BENTHIC CYSTS OF GONYAULAX TAMARENSIS AND G. EXCAVATA IN INITIATING TOXIC DINOFLAGELLATE BLOOMS1,2,3

    Donald Mark Anderson;David Wall

  • The economic effects of harmful algal blooms in the United States: Estimates, assessment issues, and information needs

    P. H Oagland;D. M. Anderson;A. W. White

  • Thecate heterotrophic dinoflagellates: feeding behavior and mechanisms

    Dean M. Jacobson;Donald M. Anderson

  • Dinoflagellates: a remarkable evolutionary experiment

    Jeremiah D. Hackett;Donald M. Anderson;Deana L. Erdner;Debashish Bhattacharya

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis J. McGillicuddy
Dennis J. McGillicuddy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Allan Cembella
Allan Cembella Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Kedong Yin
Kedong Yin Sun Yat-sen University
Edna Granéli
Edna Granéli Linnaeus University
Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff
Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff University of Tasmania
Paul J. Harrison
Paul J. Harrison University of Oxford
Patricia M. Glibert
Patricia M. Glibert University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Andrew R. Solow
Andrew R. Solow Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Joseph H.W. Lee
Joseph H.W. Lee Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Vera L. Trainer
Vera L. Trainer National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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