Brittanie Dabney

Brittanie Dabney is an environmental scientist and currently obtaining a Ph.D. in Biology and Urban Sustainability at Wayne State University.  She has master’s degrees in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology from Colorado State University and Environmental Toxicology from Texas Tech University. She was born and raised in Detroit, MI, and is eager to study and find solutions for environmental issues in the city.

Since returning to Detroit, she has been actively volunteering and collaborating on environmental projects in the city. Her current research focuses on the distribution and accumulation of microplastics in rivers and their effects on aquatic ecosystems. She is also examining the accumulation of microplastics within soils at green stormwater infrastructure sites. Prior research experience involved studying the effects of a pesticide on harmful algae and the impacts of metal-contaminated sediment at Superfund sites on aquatic communities. Additionally, she has done research collaborations with the U.S. Geological Survey, where she studied the effects of a pesticide on algal concentrations, and the effects of metal contamination on aquatic insect communities in Japan as an NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellow.