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Publications

[* indicates CCME Scholar; ** CCME-affiliated faculty, *** NOAA Federal or Affiliate]

2022

 

Student Publications in Journals

  1. Harris, E.K. (2022). Influence of Discharge on Long-Term Dynamics of Abiotic and Biotic Resources in Lavaca Bay, Texas. https://www.proquest.com/openview/08f5da5e0b029d2af5f5e47cde54a578
  2. Patrick, C.J., Kominoski, J.S., McDowell, W.H., Branoff, B., Lagomasino, D., Leon, M., Hensel, E., Hensel, M.J.S., Strickland, B.A., Mitchell Aide, T., Armitage, A., Campos-Cerqueira, M., Congdon, V.M., Crowl, T.A., Devlin, D.J., Douglas, S., Erisman, B.E., Feagin, R.A., Geist, S.J., Hall, N.S., Hardison, A.K., Heithaus, M.R., Hogan, J.A., Hogan, J.D., Kinard, S., Kiszka, J.J., Lin, T.-C., Lu, K., Madden, C.J., Montagna, P.A.**, O’Connell, C.S., Proffitt, C.E., Reese, B.K., Reustle, J.W., Robinson, K.L., Rush, S.A., Santos, R.O., Schnetzer, A., Smee, D.L., Smith, R.S., Starr, G., Stauffer, B.A., Walker, L.M.*, Weaver, C.A., Wetz, M.S.**, Whitman, E.R., Wilson, S.S., Xue, J., and Zou, X. (2022). A general pattern of trade-offs between ecosystem resistance and resilience to tropical cyclones. Science Advances 8(9), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl9155.
  3.  Bollinger, M., Macartney, K. J., Easton, E. E., & Hicks, D. (2022). Islands in the mud: The South Texas banks provide crucial mesophotic habitat for coral communities. Frontiers in Marine Science.
  4. Saccomanno, V. R., Bell, T., Pawlak, C., Stanley, C. K., Cavanaugh, K. C., Hohman, R., ... & Gleason, M. (2022). Using unoccupied aerial vehicles to map and monitor changes in emergent kelp canopy after an ecological regime shift. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation.
  5. Vallejo, J., Sanchez, K., Roozee, E., & Temby, O. (2022). Disaster resilience versus ecological resilience and the proposed second causeway to south Padre Island. Case Studies in the Environment, 6(1), 1714379.

 

2021

 

Student Publications in Journals

  1. Haskins, J., Endris, C., Thomsen, A.S.*, Gerbl, F., Fountain, M.C., and Wasson, K. (2021). UAV to Inform Restoration: A Case Study From a California Tidal Marsh. Frontiers in Environmental Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.642906.
  2. Li, J., Chen, L., Zhang, Q., Wu, L., Zhang, J., Larson, S.L., Ballard, J.H., Ma, Y., Su, Y., and Han, F.X.**. (2021) ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00286.
  3. Thomsen, A.S.*, Krause, J., Appiano, M., Tanner, K.E., Endris, C., Haskins, J., Watson, E., Woolfolk, A., Fountain, M.C., and Wasson, K. (2021). Monitoring Vegetation Dynamics at a Tidal Marsh Restoration Site: Integrating Field Methods, Remote Sensing and Modeling. Estuaries and Coasts. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-021-00977-4.

 

Faculty Publications in Journals

  1. Bao, Li, Guo, F., Wang, H., Larson, S.L., Ballard, J.H., Knotek-Smith, H.M., Zhang, Q., Nie, J., Celik, A., Islam, S.M., Dasari, S., Zhang, N., Han, F.** (2021). Functionalization of Clay Surface for the Removal of Uranium from Water. MethodsX, 101275, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2021.101275.
  2. Behl, M., Cooper, S., Garza, C.**, Kolesar, S.E., Legg, S., Lewis, J.C., White, L., and Jones, B. (2021). Changing the Culture of Coastal, Ocean, and Marine Sciences: Strategies for Individual and Collective Actions. Oceanography 34(3), DOI: https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2021.307.
  3. Chen, Xue, Zhang, D., Larson, S.L., Ballard, J., Knotek-Smith, H., Nie, J., Hu, N., Ding, D., Han, F.** (2021). Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation Techniques for the Remediation of Heavy Metal and Trace Element–Polluted Soils and Water. Water Air Soil Pollut 232, 268, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-021-05206-z.
  4. Cooper, P., Nie, J., Larson, S.L., Ballard, J.H., Knotek-Smith, H.M., Celik, A., Dasari, S., Zhu, X., Han, F.** (2021). Uranium Adsorption on Three Nanohydroxyapatites Under Various Biogeochemical Conditions. Water Air Soil Pollut 232, 362, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-021-05298-7
  5. Meng, F., Huang, Q., Larson, S.L., and Han, F.X.** (2021). The Adsorption Characteristics of Uranium(VI) from Aqueous Solution on Leonardite and Leonardite-Derived Humic Acid: A Comparative Study. Langmuir 37 (43), 12557-12567, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01838.
  6. Montagna, P. A.** (2021). How a Simple Question About Freshwater Inflow to Estuaries Shaped a Career. Gulf and Caribbean Research, 32 (1): ii-xiv, DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/gcr.3201.04.
  7. Palmer, T.A., Breaux, N., Lebreton, B., Guillou, G., and Pollack, J.B.**., (2021). Importance of Serpulid Reef to the Functioning of a Hypersaline Estuary. Estuaries and Coasts, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-021-00989-0
  8. Shropshire, T., Morey, S.L.**, Chassignet, E., Karnauskas, M.***, Coles, V., Malca, E., Laiz-Carrión, R., Fiksen, Ø., Regiero, P., Shiroza, A., Quintanilla Hervas, J., Gerard, T.***, Lamkin, J.***, and Stukel, M. (2021). Trade-offs between risks of predation and starvation in larvae make the shelf break an optimal spawning location for Atlantic Bluefin tuna. J. Plankton Res., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.01.363465.
  9. Hickey, G., Snyder, H., deVries, J., Temby, O.** (2021), On inter-organizational trust, control and risk in transboundary fisheries governance. Marine Policy, Volume 134, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104772.

 

2020

 

Student Publications in Journals

  1. Farah, I.O.**, Lyons, W.O.*, Arslan, Z., Tucci, M., Benghuzzzi, H., Turner, T.**, and Tchounwou, P.B.**, (2020). Natural Remediation of Microbial Contamination of Water from Estuarine Sources in MIssissippi. Biomed. Sci. Instrum., 56(2), 375-382.
  2. Murphy, Ashley Elizabeth*, Cintra-Buenrostro, C.E.**, Fierro-Cabo, A.**. (2020). Identifying nitrogen source and seasonal variation in a Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinans) community, south Texas coast. Aquatic Botany, 103339, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2020.103339.
  3. Waddell, Elijah N., Lascelles, N.* and Conkle, J. L. (2020). Microplastic contamination in Corpus Christi Bay blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10142.
  4. Walker, L.M.*, Montagna, P.A.**, Hu, X. et al, (2020). Timescales and Magnitude of Water Quality Change in Three Texas Estuaries Induced by Passage of Hurricane Harvey. Estuaries and Coasts, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00846-6.
  5. Wu, D., Del Rosario, E. A.*, and Lowry, C. (2020). Exploring the Use of Decision Tree Methodology in Hydrology Using Crowdsourced Data. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12882.

 

Faculty Publications in Journals

  1. Bhusal, M., Calderon, J., and Cho, H.J.** (2020). Opinion Mining of Newspaper Articles using Natural Language Processing: Pilot Test Using Texts on Indian River Lagoon. Proceedings of Indian River Lagoon Symposium 2020.
  2. Easton, E.E.**, Hicks, D**. (2020). Complete mitogenome of Carijoa riisei (Octocorallia: Alcyonacaea: Stolonifera: Clavulariidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part. B. 5, 1826–1827, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2020.1750998.
  3. Orozco, A., Ho, A., & Cho, H. J. (2020). Evaluation of outreach and public education in raising awareness of waterfront community roles in controlling nonpoint pollution around the Mosquito Lagoon, Florida. International Journal of Energy Water Food Nexus, 2(1), 7-11.
  4. Rohal, Melissa, Barrera, N., Escobar-Briones, E., Brooks, G., Hollander, D., Larson, R., Montagna, P.A.**, Pryor, M., Romero, I.C., Schwing, P. (2020). How quickly will the offshore ecosystem recover from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill? Lessons learned from the 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil well blowout. Ecological Indicators, Volume 117, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106593.
  5. Zhang, Dan, Chen, X., Larson, S.L., Ballard, J.H., Knotek-Smith, H.M., Ding, D., Hu, N., and Han, F.X.** (2020). Uranium Biomineralization with Phosphate - Biogeochemical Process and Its Application. ACS Earth Space Chem., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00252.

 

2019

 

Student Publications in Journals

  1. Bellamy, Philip W.* and H.J. Cho** (2019). A GIS-Based Approach for Determining Potential Runoff Coefficient and Runoff Depth for the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA [Online First]. IntechOpen, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.87163.
  2. Boisen, O.*, A. Corral, E. Pope, and J. C. Goeltz (2019). Quantifying the Cross-Sensitivity of Glass pH Electrodes in Alkaline Solutions. Journal of Chemical Education, 96(7), 1418-1423, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00812.
  3. Lima, A.*, D. Kim, A.M. Song, G.M. Hickey, and O. Temby** (2019). Trust and Influence in the Gulf of Mexico’s Fishery Public Management Network. Sustainability, 11, 6090, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11216090.
  4. Hennad, A., P. Cockett*, L. McLauchlan and M. Mehrubeoglu (2019). Characterization of Irregularly-Shaped Objects Using 3D Structured Light Scanning. 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), 600-605, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCI49370.2019.00113.
  5. León-Pérez* M.C., R.A. Armstrong., W.J. Hernández, and A. Aguilar-Perera (2019). Seagrass Cover Expansion off Caja de Muertos, Puerto Rico, as determined by Long-term Analysis of Historical Aerial and Satellite Images (1950 - 2014). Ecological Indicators, 117, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106561.
  6. León-Pérez M.C.*, W.J. Hernández and R.A. Armstrong (2019). Characterization and Distribution of Seagrass Habitats in a Caribbean Nature Reserve using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and Field Sampling. Journal of Coastal Research, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2112/jcoastres-d-18-00106.1.

 

Faculty Publications in Journals

  1. Alexander, T.C., Han, F.X.**, Arslan, Z., Tchounwou, P.B. (2019). Toxicity of As in Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791) from the Northern Gulf of Mexico at the presence of Zn and its antioxidant defense mechanisms. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 172, 514-522, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.02.009.
  2. Brokaw, R. J., B. Subrahmanyam, and S.L. Morey** (2019). Loop current and eddy-driven salinity variability in the Gulf of Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082931.
  3. Easton, E. E.**, and D. Hicks** (2019). Complete mitochondrial genome of Callogorgia cf. gracilis (Octocorallia: Calcaxonia: Primnoidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 4:1, 361-362, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2018.1544042.
  4. Garza, C.** (2019). Landscape Ecology in the Rocky Intertidal: Opportunities for Advancing Discovery and Innovation in Intertidal Research. Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 1-8, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40823-019-00042-8.
  5. Paudel, B., P.A. Montagna** and L. Adams (2019). The relationship between suspended solids and nutrients with variable hydrologic flow regimes. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 29:100657, 9 pp, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2019.100657.
  6. Paudel, B., P.A. Montagna** and L. Adams (2019). Water quality data from estuarine variable hydrologic flow regimes during frequent drought. Data in Brief, 25:104178, 18 pp, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104178.
  7. Shropshire, T. S.L. Morey**, E. Chassignet, A. Bozec, V. Coles, M. Landry, R. Swalethorp, G. Zapfe, and M. Stukel (2019). Quantifying spatiotemporal variability in zooplankton dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico with a physical-biogeochemical model. Biogeosciences, 17, 3385-3407, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3385-2020.

 

2018

 

Faculty Publications in Journals

  1. Rodriguez, R., E. E. Easton**, T. C. Shirley, J. W. Tunnell and D. Hicks** (2018). Preliminary Multivariate Comparison of Coral Assemblages on Carbonate Banks in the Western Gulf of Mexico. Gulf and Caribbean Research, 29(1): 23-33, DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/gcr.2901.11.