Publications Supported by CSCOR and/or Using Observation Products Supported by CSCOR
In Association with the Narragansett Bay Coastal Hypoxia Research Program Grants
1. Published
Journal articles
** Other Nixon and/or Fulweiler papers?
Brush, M.J. and J.W. Brawley. 2009. Adapting the light · biomass (BZI) models of phytoplankton primary
production to shallow marine ecosystems. Journal of Marine Systems 75: 227–235. CHRP
publication no. 111
Brush, M.J. and S.W. Nixon (in review) An intermediate complexity model for shallow marine ecosystems:
formulation and calibration. Estuaries and Coasts.
Brush, M.J. and S.W. Nixon (in review) An intermediate complexity model for shallow marine ecosystems:
sensitivity analysis, simulation analysis, and system-level validation. Estuaries and Coasts.
Brush, M.J. and L.A. Harris (eds). 2010. Special issue of Ecological Modelling: "Advances in Modeling
Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems: Approaches, Validation, and Applications". Ecological Modelling
221.
Brush, M.J. and L.A. Harris. 2010. Introduction to the special issue of Ecological Modelling: "Advances in
Modeling Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems: Approaches, Validation, and Applications". Ecological
Modelling 221:965-968.
Brush, M.J. and S.W. Nixon. 2010. Modeling the role of macroalgae in a shallow sub-estuary of
Narragansett Nay, RI (USA). Ecological Modelling 221:1065-1079.
Codiga, D.L., H.E. Stoffel, C.F. Deacutis, S. Kiernan, and C.A. Oviatt, 2009. Narragansett Bay hypoxic
event characteristics based on fixed-site monitoring network time series: Intermittency, geographic
distribution, spatial synchronicity, and inter-annual variability. Estuaries and Coasts, DOI
10.1007/s12237-009-9165-9.
Codiga, D. L., 2012. Density stratification in an estuary with complex geometry: Driving processes and
relationship to hypoxia on monthly to inter-annual timescales. J. Geophys. Res.,
doi:10.1029/2012JC008473.
Deacutis, C.F., D. Murray, W. Prell, E. Saarman, and L. Korhun. 2006. Hypoxia in the Upper Half of
Narragansett Bay, RI During August 2001 and 2002. Northeastern Naturalist 13 Special Issue 4: 173198.
Fulweiler, R.W. and S.W. Nixon. 2009. Responses of benthic-pelagic coupling to climate change in a
temperate estuary. Hydrobiologia 629:147-156.
Fulweiler, R.W., S.W. Nixon, B.A. Buckley, and S.L. Granger. 2007. Reversal of the net dinitrogen gas flux in
coastal marine sediments. Nature 448:180 - 182.
Harris, L.A. and M.J. Brush. 2012. Bridging the gap between empirical and mechanistic models of aquatic
primary production with the metabolic theory of ecology: An example from estuarine ecosystems.
Ecological Modelling 233:83-89. CHRP contribution no. 155.
Kremer, J.N., J. Vaudrey, D. Ullman, D. Bergondo, N. LaSota, C. Kincaid, D. Codiga, and M.J. Brush.
2010. Simulating property exchange in estuarine ecosystem models at ecologically appropriate
scales. Ecological Modelling 221:1080-1088.
Krumholz, J.S., and C.A. Oviatt, 2012. Investigating The Impact of Advanced Wastewater Treatment on
Nutrient Dynamics In Narragansett Bay, RI. Estuaries and Coasts, Accepted.
Lake, S.J. and M.J. Brush. 2011. The contribution of microphytobenthos to total productivity in Narragansett
Bay, Rhode Island. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 95:289-297. CHRP contribution no. 148.
Nixon, S. W., R. W. Fulweiler, B. A. Buckley, S. L. Granger, B. L. Nowicki, and K. M.
Henry. 2009. The impact of changing climate on phenology, productivity, and benthic-pelagic- coupling
in Narragansett Bay. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. Featured Article 82: 1-18.
Smith, L.M., Silver, C.M. and Oviatt, C.A. 2012. Quantifying variation in water column photosynthetic quotient
with changing field conditions in Narragansett Bay, RI, USA. Journal of Plankton Research, 34(5):437442.
Smith, L.M., Whitehouse, S. and Oviatt, C.A. 2010. Impacts of Climate Change on Narragansett Bay.
Northeastern Naturalist, 17(1):77-90.
Book chapters
Deacutis, C.F. 2008. Evidence of Ecological Impacts from Excess Nutrients in Upper Narragansett Bay. In
Ecosystem Based Management: A Case Study of Narragansett Bay . Springer Series in
Environmental Management, eds. A. Desbonnet, and B.A. Costa-Pierce, pp.349-381, New York:
Springer.
Kincaid, C. , D. Bergondo and K. Rosenberger, Circulation and exchange between lower Narragansett Bay
and Rhode Island Sound, in Ecosystem-based Estuary Management: A Case Study of
Narragansett Bay, Springer Publ., ed. A. Desbonet, B. Costa-Pierce, 301-324, 2008
Nixon, S.W., B. Buckley, S. Granger, L. Harris, A. Oczkowski, R. Fulweiler, and L. Cole. 2008. Nitrogen and
phosphorus inputs to Narragansett Bay: Past, present, and future. Pp 101-176 In: B. Costa-Pierce
and A. Desbonnet (eds. ) Science for Ecosystem-Based Estuarine Management: Narragansett Bay
in the 21st Century. Springer Verlag, NY.
Oviatt, C. 2008. Impacts of Nutrients on Narragansett Bay Productivity: A Gradient Approach. In: A.
Desbonnet, B. A. Costa-Pierce (eds). Science for Ecosystem-based Management. Springer, N.Y.
p. 519-539.
Saarman, E., W. L. Prell, D. Murray and C. F. Deacutis. 2008. Summer Bottom Water Dissolved Oxygen In
Upper Narragansett Bay. In Ecosystem Based Management: A Case Study of Narragansett Bay .
Springer Series in Environmental Management, eds. A. Desbonnet, and B.A. Costa-Pierce, pp.325347, New York: Springer.
Dissertations and theses
Balt, C. 2013. Subestuarine Circulation and Dispersion in Narragansett Bay. PhD Dissertation. University of
Rhode Island. Narragansett, RI.
Fulweiler, R. W. 2007. The impact of climate change on benthic-pelagic coupling and the biogeochemical
cycling of Narragansett Bay, R.I. PhD Dissertation, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI.
http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3276984
Krumholz, J. 2012. Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Nutrient Standing Stock and Mass Balance in
Response to Load Reductions in a Temperate Estuary Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Rhode Island,
Narragansett, RI.
LaSota, N., 2009. Observational and numerical experiments on the flushing of nutrients in the Providence
River Estuary, MS Thesis, University of Rhode Island, 186 pages.
Pfeiffer-Herbert, A.S. 2012. Larval Transport in an Estuarine Shelf System: Interaction of Circulation Patterns
and Larval Behavior. PhD Dissertation. University of Rhode Island. Narragansett, RI.
Rogers, J., 2008. Circulation and transport in upper Narragansett Bay, MS Thesis, University of Rhode
Island, 95 pages.
Smith, Leslie M. 2011. Impacts of spatial and temporal variation of water column production and respiration
on hypoxia in Narragansett Bay. Thesis for Ph.D., University of Rhode Island.
Reports, conference proceedings, and other
Bergondo, D., and C. Kincaid, Development and calibration of a model for tracking dispersion of waters
from Narragansett Bay Commission facilities within the Providence River, Narragansett Bay
Commission Final Report, 46 pages, 2007.
Codiga, D.L., 2008. A moving window trigger algorithm to identify and characterize hypoxic events using
time series observations, with application to Narragansett Bay. Technical Report 2008-01. Graduate
School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, 101pp.
Melrose, D. C., M. S. Berman, L. M. Smith, C. A. Oviatt. 2009. The ecological effects of climate change on
the Narragansett Bay estuary. ICES CM 2009/(G:07). 20p.
Nixon, S. S. and R. W. Fulweiler. 2009. Nutrient pollution, eutrophication, and the degradation of coastal
marine ecosystems. Pp. 23-58. In: C. M. Duarte (ed.) Global Loss of Coastal Habitats: Rates,
Causes and Consequences. Fundación BBVA, Bilbao, Spain.
Oviatt, C.A. 2012. Exploring Hypoxia. Research Innovation: 56-58. International Innovation is the leading global
dissemination resource for the wider scientific, technology and research communities, dedicated to
disseminating the latest science, research and technological innovations on a global level. More
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www.researchmedia.eu
Vaudrey, J.M.P. and J.N. Kremer. (2009) Progress on the Ecological Component of the Hybrid Model: 2009
Annual Report.
Vaudrey, J.M.P. and J.N. Kremer. (2008) Working Report on the Narragansett Bay EcoGEM Model v.
11.11.08
Vaudrey, J.M.P. and J.N. Kremer. (2008) Summary Report of the 2007 Deployment of the Moored Vertical
Profilers in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island and Preliminary Observations on the Synchronicity of
Stratification and Destratification Events
Vaudrey, J.M.P. and J.N. Kremer. (2008) Progress on the Ecological Component of the Hybrid Model: 2008
Annual Report.
Vaudrey, J.M.P. and J.N. Kremer. (2007) Contour Plots of Data from the 2006 Deployment of the Moored
Vertical Profilers in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island
Vaudrey, J.M.P. and J.N. Kremer. (2006) Summary Report of the 2006 Deployment of the Moored Vertical
Profilers in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island
2. In preparation
Fisher, J. and Prell, W., in preparation, Detecting spatial and temporal patterns of chlorophyll seasonality in
Narragansett Bay: A multivariate approach.
Martin, A., Prell, W., in preparation, Taxonomy and distribution of Benthic Foraminifera in Narragansett
Bay.
Pfeiffer-Herbert, Kincaid, Rosenberger, Bergondo, "Dynamics of wind-driven estuarine-shelf exchange:
implications for ecosystem processes in the Narragansett Bay estuary", for submission to
Estuarine, Shelf and Coastal Science.
Prell, W., Martin, A., Murray, D., in preparation, Benthic foraminifer faunas as a proxy for mapping the
spatial and temporal extent of hypoxia in Narragansett Bay.
Rogers, J., C. Kincaid and D. Bergondo. Circulation in the heart of Narragansett Bay, for submission to
JGR-Oceans.
Vaudrey, J.M.P., M.J. Brush, D. Ullman, and J.N. Kremer. Development of a hybrid physical-ecological
model for predicting the onset of hypoxia in the estuarine waters of Narragansett Bay, RI, USA.