Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) Center
of NOAA's Undersea Research Program
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers University

 

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Publications & Reports
Below is a list of publications, including refereed publications, theses and dissertations, based on research activities supported by Mid-Atlantic Bight Center of NURP and published between 1993 and the present.

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Refereed Publications
Olson, R.J., Shalapyonok, A., and H.M. Sosik. 2003. An automated submersible flow cytometer for analyzing pico- and nanophytoplankton: FlowCytobot. Deep-Sea Res. I 50:301 –315

Styles R, Glenn SM (2002) Modeling bottom roughness in the presence of wave-generated ripples. J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans 107:art. no.-3110

Komada, T. and Reimers, C.E. (2001) Resuspension-induced partitioning of organic carbon between solid and solution phases in sediments from a river-ocean transition. Mar. Chem. 76, 155-174.

Neuman, M.J., D.A. Witting, and K.W. Able. 2001. Relationships between otolith microstructure, otolith growth, somatic growth, and ontogenetic transitions in two cohorts of windowpane, Scophthalmus aquosus. J. Fish. Bio. 58:967-984

Snelgrove, P.V.R., J.F. Grassle, J.P. Grassle, R.F. Petrecca and K.I. Stocks. 2001. The role of colonization in establishing patters of community composition and diversity in shallow-water sedimentary communities. Journal of Marine Research 59: 813-830.

Reimers, C.E., Jahnke, R.A. and Thomsen, L. (2001) In situ sampling in the benthic boundary layer. Chapter in "The Benthic Boundary Layer: Transport Processes and Biogeochemistry" B.P. Boudreau and B.B. Jørgensen (editors), Oxford University Press, pp. 245-268.

Glenn, S.M., W. Boicourt, B. Parker and T.D. Dickey. 2000. Operational observation networks for ports, a large estuary and an open shelf. Oceanography. 13, 12-23.

Reimers, C.E. and Glud, R. N. (2000) In situ chemical sensor measurements at the sediment-water interface. Chapter in: "Chemical Sensors in Oceanography" M. Varney (editor), Gordon and Breach Publishing, pp.249-282.

Steves, B.P., R.K. Cowen, and M. Malchoff. 2000. Settlement and nursery habitat for demersal fishes on the continental shelf of the New York Bight. U.S. Fish. Bull. 98(1):167-188.

Sullivan, M.C., Cowen, R.K., Able, K.W., Fahay, M.P. 2000. Spatial scaling of recruitment in four continental shelf fishes. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 207:141-154

Steves, B.P., and R.K. Cowen. 2000. Settlement, growth and movement of silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis, in nursery habitat on the New York Bight continental shelf. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 196:279-290.

Glenn, S.M., T.D. Dickey, B. Parker and W. Boicourt. 2000. Long-term real-time coastal ocean observation networks. Oceanography. 13, 24-34.

Taillefert, M., A. B. Bono and G. W. Luther, III. 2000. Reactivity of freshly formed Fe(III) in synthetic solutions and marine (pore) waters: voltammetric evidence of an aging process, Environ. Science and Technology 34, 2169-2177.

Luther, III, G. W., C. E. Reimers, D. B. Nuzzio and D. Lovalvo. 1999. In Situ deployment of voltammetric, potentiometric and amperometric microelectrodes from a ROV to determine O2, Mn, Fe, S(-2) and pH in porewaters. Environ. Science & Technology 33, 4352-4356.

Rona, Peter A., 1999. Deep-diving manned research submersibles. Mar. Tech. Soc. Journal. 33:13-25.

Duval, E.J. and K.W. Able. 1998. Aspects of the life history of the seaboard goby, Gobiosoma ginsburgi, in estuarine and continental shelf waters. Bull NJ Acad. Sci. 43(1): 5-10.

Luther, G.W. III; Taillefert, M.; Bono, A.; Brendel, P.J.; Sundby, B.; Reimers, C.E.; Nuzzio, D.B.; and Lovalvo, D. 1998. Recent developments in the use of voltammetric solid state microelectrodes to understand diagenetic processes. Mineralogical Magazine 62A: 921-922. Proceedings from the 8th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference held in Toulouse, France.

Bell, J.L., J.P. Grassle. 1997. Preparation of DNA from numerous individual microscopic organisms for PCR based assays of environmental samples. BioTechniques 23(4):584-588.

Collie, J.S.; Escanero, G.A.; and Valentine, P.C. 1997. Effects of bottom fishing on the benthic megafauna of Georges Bank. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 155: 159-172.

Rieley, G., C.L. Van Dover and G. Eglinton. 1997. Lipid biomarkers as sensitive indicators of the entry of municipal sewage sludge-derived carbon into marine food webs. Environ. Sci. Tech. 31:1018-1023

Viscido, S.V., D.E. Stearns and K.W. Able. 1997. Seasonal and spatial patterns of an epibenthic decapod crustacean assemblage in north-west Atlantic continental shelf waters. Est. Coast. Shelf Sci. 45:377-392.

Snelgrove, P.V.R., J.F. Grassle and R.F. Petrecca. 1996. Experimental evidence for aging food patches as a factor contributing to high deep-sea macrofaunal diversity. Limnol. Oceanogr. 41 (4): 605-614 JUN 1996

Lamoureux, E. R., B. J. Brownawell and M. H. Bothner. 1996. Linear Alkylbenzenes as tracers of sewage sludge derived inputs of organic matter, PCBs and PAHs to sediments at the 106 Mile Deep Water Disposal Site. J. Marine Env. Eng. 2:325-342.

Cai, W.-J. and F.L. Sayles. 1996. Oxygen penetration depths and fluxes in marine sediments. Mar. Chem. 52:123 131.

Seitzinger, S.P. and A.E. Giblin. 1996. Estimating denitrification in North Atlantic continental shelf sediments. Biogeochem. 35: 235-260.

Sayles, Frederick L.; Smith, Stephen P., and Goudreau, Joanne E. 1996. Deep ocean sludge disposal, sediment oxygen consumption and sediment oxygen profiles at deep water municipal dumpsite 106. J. Marine Envir. Engg. 3: 99-130.

Humphris, S.E., Herzig, P.M., Miller, D.J., Alt, J.C., Becker, K., Brown, D., Grugmann, G., Chiba, H., Fouquet, Y., Gemmell, J.B., Guerin, G., Hannington, M.D., Holm, N.G., Honnorez, J.J., Iturrino, G.J., Knott, R., Ludwig, R., Nakamura, K., Petersen, S., Reysenback, A.L., Rona, P.A., Smith, S., Sturz, A.A., Tivey, M.K., and Zhao, X. 1995. The internal structure of an active sea-floor massive sulphide deposit. Nature 377: 713-716.

Able, K.W., M.P. Fahay and G.R. Shepherd. 1995. Early life history of black sea bass Centropristis striata in the Mid-Atlantic Bight and a New Jersey Estuary. Fish. Bull. Fish. Bull. 93:429 445

Keen, T.R. and S.M. Glenn. 1995. A coupled hydrodynamic - bottom boundary layer model of storm and tidal flow in the Middle Atlantic Bight of North America. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 25:391-406.

Takada, H., J. W. Farrington, M.H. Bothner, C.G. Johnson and B.W. Tripp. 1994. Application of molecular markers for the detection of sewage sludge in the deep sea: Linear alkylbenzenes (LABs), Coprostanol, and Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at the 106 mile disposal site off the eastern United States. Environ. Sci. and Tech.. 28(6):1062-1072.

1994 Snelgrove, P.V.R., J.F. Grassle and R.F. Petrecca. 1994. Macrofaunal response to artificial enrichments and depressions in a deep-sea habitat. J. Mar. Res. 52:345-369.

Able, K.W. and S.C. Kaiser. 1994. Synthesis of summer flounder habitat parameters. NOAA Coastal Ocean Program Decision and Analysis Series. No. 1. NOAA Coastal Ocean Office. Silver Spring, MD. 68 pp. + 3 app.

Keen, T.R. and S.M. Glenn, and R.L. Slingerland. 1994. Coastal circulation and sedimentation during severe storms. ASCE Estuarine and Coastal Modeling III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference, Oak Brook, Illinois, September 8-10, 1993. pp. 279-293.

Bothner, M.H., H. Takada, I.T. Knight, R.T. Hill, B. Butman, J.W. Farrington, R.R. Colwell and J.F. Grassle. 1994. Sewage contamination in sediments beneath a deep-ocean dump site off New York. Marine Environmental Research 38(1): 43-59.

Keen, T.R. and S.M. Glenn. 1994. A coupled hydrodynamic - bottom boundary layer model of Ekman flow on stratified continental shelves. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 24(8):1732-1749.

Colwell, R.R., R.T. Hill, I.T. Knight, W. Straube, M. Takizawa and M.S. Anikis. 1993. Microbiological effects of dumping domestic wastes in the deep ocean. In R. Guerrero and C. Pedrós-Alió (eds) Trends in Microbial Ecology. 631-634.

Hill, Russell T.; Knight, Ivor T.; Anikis, Michael S.; and Colwell, Rita R. 1993. Benthic distribution of sewage sludge indicated by Clostridium perfringens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 59(1): 47-51.

Takizawa, M.; Straube, W. L.; Hill, R. T., and Colwell, R. R. 1993. Near-bottom pelagic bacteria at a deep-water sewage sludge disposal site. Appl. and Environ. Microbiol. 59(10): 3406-3410.

Theses and Dissertations
Feng, Chengwei. 2001. A user interface design for feature extraction and tracking with application to oceanography. M.S. Thesis, Graduate Program in Oceanography, Rutgers University.

Ma, H. 2001. Physical mechanisms and temporal and spatial patchiness in bivalve larval supply and settlement on the inner shelf of the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, 186pp.

Heiney, Erica. 2001. Bioluminescence in coastal waters. M.S. Thesis, California Polytechnic State University.

Oliver, Mathew. 2001. Optical dynamics in coastal oceans. M.S. Thesis, California Polytechnic State University.

Scala, David. 1999. Using the nitrous oxide reductase gene as a molecular marker for tracking denitrifying bacteria in marine and coastal environments. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Program in Oceanography, Rutgers University.

Styles, Richard. 1998. A continental shelf bottom boundary layer model: Development, calibration and applications to sediment transport in the Middle Atlantic Bight. Ph.D. Dissertation.

Traykovski, Peter. 1998. Observations and modeling of sand transport in a wave dominated environment. Ph.D. Dissertation, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/MIT Joint Program.

Weissberger, Eric J. 1998. The effects of predation on recruitment of the surfclam, Spisula solidissima. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Program in Oceanography, Rutgers University.

Ma, H. 1997. Time series analysis of meroplankton in moored pump samples at LEO 15: the relationship between the abundance of surfclam larvae and nearshore upwelling events. M.S. Thesis, Graduate Program in Oceanography, Rutgers University, 110 pp.

Kanchammana-Hosekote, Dilip. 1997. Applications of centerlines and skeletons in visualization: Scientific visualization and volume animation. M.S. Thesis, Graduate Program in Oceanography, Rutgers University.

Carey, John. 1996. Late Quaternary sequence stratigraphy of the New Jersey continental shelf. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Program in Oceanography, Rutgers University.

Craghan, M. 1995. Topographic changes and sediment characteristics at a shoreface sand ridge - Beach Haven Ridge, New Jersey. MS Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Lamoureux, E.M. 1995. The distribution of linear alkylbenzenes, polychlorinated biphenyls, and polynuclear hydrocarbons in sediments and biota at teh 106 Mile Deep Water Disposal Site. M.S. Thesis. SUNY at Stony Brook, 99 pp.

Viscido, S.V. 1994. Seasonal and spatial variations in the marine epibenthic decapod crustacean community at Beach Haven Ridge, NJ. MS Thesis, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

 


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