O. Roger Anderson

O. Roger Anderson

O. Roger Anderson, PhD, Professor, Chair of the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Teechers College, Columbia University; Columbia Observatory Senior Research Fellow Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, biologist, paleoecologist, micropaleontologist, eukaryotic microbial taxonomist amoebozoa and biological oceanographer who studies microplankton ecology and algal symbiosis with implications for environmental problems and climate change research.

ORCID: 0000-0003-1616-1194
ScopusID: 55666891400

Educational Background
Bachelor of Arts (Botany) Washington University, St. Louis (1959) Master of Arts (Biological Education) Washington University (1961) Doctorate (Biology and Education) Washington University (1964)

Scientific activity
Since 1964, he has been working at Columbia University where he received the title of full professor. He combines teaching with research. Professor Anderson is a leading plankton specialist, including aspects that reflect the effects of changes in ocean temperature. He is also recognized, at present, as a leading teacher in the field of natural sciences, applying the theory of cognitive and neurobiological studies in the field of the study of thinking. He is a co-author of the development of an online scientific program designed to stimulate students to use real data, develops ways to improve the intellectual display of information among students.

Scholarly Interests
Neurocognitive theory applied to science learning. Electron microscopic and physiological ecological studies of eukaryotic microbiota.

Awards
In 1979, Prof. O.R. Anderson awarded the Bermuda Biological Station Marine Award (“Marine Biomineralizing Protist”) for research in the field of marine sciences, In honor of the research contribution of O.R. Anderson's protistology and symbiosis, called the species of diatoms: Cocconeis Andersonii (Reimer and Lee). In 1999, he awarded the Medal of the Paleontological Society of Japan, (Sendai, Japan).

Selected Publications:

  • Joaquim I. Goes, Hongzhen Tian, Helga do Rosario Gomes, O. Roger Anderson, Khalid Al-Hashmi, Sergio deRada, Hao Luo, Lubna Al-Kharusi, Adnan Al-Azri & Douglas G. Martinson. Ecosystem state change in the Arabian Sea fuelled by the recent loss of snow over the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau region. Scientific Reports, 2020, Vol. 10, Article No. 7422, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64360-2.
  • O. Roger Anderson, Andrew R. Juhl & Nicholas Bock. Effects of organic carbon enrichment on respiration rates, phosphatase activities, and abundance of heterotrophic bacteria and protists in organic-rich Arctic and mineral-rich temperate soil samples. Polar Biology, 2018, Vol. 41, pp. 14-24, doi: 10.1007/s00300-017-2166-4.
  • O.R. Anderson. Atmospheric respiratory CO2 efflux by aquatic suspended particle-bound microbial communities: A laboratory experimental study. HELIYON, NOV 2019, Vol.‏ 5, No.‏ 11: e02816, doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02816.
  • O.R. Anderson. The role of heterotrophic microbial communities in estuarine C budgets and the biogeochemical C cycle with implications for global warming: research opportunities and challenges. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 2016, Vol. 63, pp. 394–409, https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12279.
  • O.R. Anderson. Microbial respiration of organic carbon in freshwater microcosms: the potential for improved estimation of microbial CO2 emission from organically enriched freshwater ecosystems. Acta Protozool., 55 (2016), pp. 189–196.
  • O.R. Anderson. The Role of Heterotrophic Microbial Communities in Estuarine C Budgets and the Biogeochemical C Cycle with Implications for Global Warming: Research Opportunities and Challenges. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 2016, Vol. 63 No. 3, pp. 394–409, doi: 10.1111/jeu.12279.
  • O.R. Anderson. Particle-associated Planktonic Naked Amoebae in the Hudson Estuary: Size-fraction Related Densities, Cell Sizes and Estimated Carbon Content. Acta Protozool., ‏2011, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 15–22,
  • O.R. Anderson and Y. Tekle. A Description of Cochliopodium megatetrastylus n. sp. Isolated From a Freshwater Habitat. Acta Protozoologica, 2013, Vol. 52, pp. 55–64.
  • O.R. Anderson. Progress in Application of the Neurosciences to an Understanding of Human Learning: The Challenge of Finding a Middle-ground Neuroeducational Theory. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014, Vol. 12, pp. 475–492, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-013-9455-3.

Address:
Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027
Biology, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, 10964
e-mail: oranderson@tc.columbia.edu