Patricia Marguerite Glibert is a marine scientist known for her research on nutrient use by phytoplankton and harmful algal blooms in Chesapeake Bay.
[2] Glibert moved to Harvard University for her Ph.D., which she earned in 1982 with a dissertation working on the uptake of ammonium by small marine organisms.
[22][23] Glibert received an honorary doctorate from Linnaeus University in 2011,[24] and was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012.
[1] Glibert describes herself as "one-half dual-career couple"[26] and is married to Todd Kana, a phytoplankton ecologist at the University of Maryland.
[27] They have three children; Glibert's daughter was the first child born to a woman scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.