Georgie Humphries

  • Doctoral Student, Greenfield Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative

Georgie Efegenia Humphries is currently a PhD Candidate and researcher in Dr. Dianne Greenfield’s lab at the GC-ASRC’s Environmental Sciences Initiative, examining the complex relationships between phytoplankton and bacteria in urban, nitrogen-enriched estuarine environments. Georgie received her undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from SUNY Purchase, a master’s in Geological & Earth Sciences from CUNY Queens College, and a master‘s in Earth & Environmental Sciences from the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition to her research, she has taught undergraduate environmental science courses since 2019, and previously worked as a research assistant on both the Climate Justice certificate at the CUNY Graduate Center and on nature-based features with the Science & Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay. 

Publications

G.E. Humphries, M. Ambrosone, Z. Roldan-Ayala, M. Brown, and D.I. Greenfield. Shore and mid-channel surveys reveal distinct phytoplankton-bacterial population associations along an urban estuary. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 2024, 90, 121-139.

Z. Roldan Ayala, S.A. Arnott, M. Ambrosone, J.I. Espinosa, G.E. Humphries, M. Tzortziou, J. I. Goes, and D.I. Greenfield. The influences of phenology, spatial distribution, and nitrogen form on Long Island Sound phytoplankton biomass and taxonomic composition. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2023, 292, 108451.

G.E. Humphries, J.I. Espinosa, M. Ambrosone, Z. Roldan Ayala, M. Tzortziou, J.I. Goes, D.I. Greenfield. Transitions in nitrogen and organic matter form and concentration correspond to bacterial population dynamics in a hypoxic urban estuary. Biogeochemistry, 2023, 163, 219-243.