Anitra Thorhaug is an American marine biologist, plant ecophysiologist and chemical oceanographer whose extensive work on the rehabilitation of coastal ecosystems has had a substantial influence on national and international policies on conservation around the world.

She has had a series of professorships at universities and presently works with the Center for Natural Carbon Capture at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies .

Academically, Thorhaug has been associated with a number of universities and research institutions around the world, including the University of California, Berkeley, the Stanford Hopkins Marine Stations, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida International University, the Weizmann Institute and UCLA and is conducting research into seagrass and mangrove Blue carbon comparative studies among tropical ocean basins at Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture) (see references below), having ended a decade and a half of photosynthesis and remote sensing of marine plants at the Ecophysiological Laboratories at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Gulf of Mexico estuarine blue carbon stock, extent and flux: Mangroves, marshes, and seagrasses: A North American hotspot.

Al.2020.Coastal and estuarine blue carbon stocks in the greater Southeast Asia region: Seagrasses and mangroves per nation and sum of total .Marine Pollution Bulletin 160, 111168. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111168 Gallagher J B, Chew S T and & Madin J, Thorhaug A.