Grantee Research Project Results
2004 Progress Report: Atlantic Coast Environmental Indicators Consortium
EPA Grant Number: R828677Center: Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science
Center Director: Stein, Michael
Title: Atlantic Coast Environmental Indicators Consortium
Investigators: Paerl, Hans , Luettich Jr., Richard A. , Boicourt, William C. , Houde, Edward D. , Roman, Michael R. , Hopkinson, Charles S , Morris, James T. , Harding Jr., Lawrence W. , Kenworthy, Judson , Fonseca, Mark , Torres, Raymond
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Ecosystem Management Research Institute , Texas A & M University , University of Maryland - College Park , University of South Carolina at Columbia
EPA Project Officer: Packard, Benjamin H
Project Period: February 26, 2001 through February 25, 2005
Project Period Covered by this Report: February 26, 2004 through February 25, 2005
Project Amount: $5,812,315
RFA: Environmental Indicators in the Estuarine Environment Research Program (2000) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Ecological Indicators/Assessment/Restoration , Water , Aquatic Ecosystems
Objective:
With support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Estuarine and Great Lakes (EaGLe) Program, researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Maryland, the University of South Carolina, the Marine Biological Laboratory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-Beaufort Laboratory are developing and testing broadly applicable, integrative indicators of ecological condition, integrity, and sustainability across four distinct and representative estuarine systems on the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Included are the nation's two largest estuarine complexes, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland/Virginia, and Albemarle-Pamlico Sound, North Carolina; a small estuary, the Parker River, situated in the Plum Island National Science Foundation (NSF) Long-Term Ecosystem Research (LTER) site, Massachusetts; and a tidal estuary in the southeast Atlantic Bight, the North Inlet, South Carolina. These sites are representative of three primary producer bases- intertidal marsh (Plum Island and North Inlet), plankton dominated (Chesapeake Bay and Pamlico Sound), and seagrass dominated (portions of Chesapeake Bay and Pamlico Sound). They contain pristine and anthropogenically impacted waters and have ongoing, long-term water quality/habitat monitoring programs in place, serving as the data for indicator development and testing.
The primary objectives of the research project are to: (1) enhance the archive of existing data for these systems with remotely sensed and time-series information on key variables; (2) exploit detailed knowledge of ecosystem structure and function to synthesize this archive and develop candidate indicators; and (3) test the ability of these indicators to gauge ecosystem health and unambiguously detect trends resulting from natural variability (e.g., floods, droughts) and anthropogenic stresses (e.g., nutrients and other pollutants, sediments) across multiple estuaries.
Our research plan includes the development of:
- Indicators of microalgal and macrophyte communities controlling primary production.
- Indicators capable of determining plankton and fish community structure and function (i.e., indices that relate to trophic transfer and sustainable higher trophic levels).
- Biological indicators coupled to physical-chemical and remote sensing assessments of ecosystem function, trophic state, and change.
- Indicators and assessments within a national coastal indicator framework (EPA-EaGLe Program) by establishing collaborations with other EaGLe Centers and EPA/NSF/NOAA-supported ecological indicator research efforts.
These indicators form the backbone of ecosystem, regional, and national water quality; habitat assessment; and living resources monitoring and modeling efforts. These indicators serve to calibrate and ground-truth aircraft and satellite remote sensing of estuarine and coastal resources, including plant community structure, function, and ecological health (Figure 1). These phytoplankton, marsh, and seagrass proxies will be linked with metrics of trophic structure to provide indicators of living resources status.
Progress Summary:
We have collaborated our efforts with other EaGLe Centers, EPA, and other Cooperative Centers, including:
Figure 1. Conceptual Diagram Showing the Integrated Set of ACE INC Indicators Being Developed and Deployed at the Ecosystem Scale. Also shown are the key hydrologic, nutrient, and other pollutant stressors whose impacts are being evaluated by our projects.
- Developing molecular indicators of nitrification and N-cycling dynamics in coastal waters (with T. Hollibaugh, PEEIR; J. Dyble and W. Litaker, NOAA-Beaufort Laboratory).
- Applying statistical approaches for utilizing phytoplankton functional group as indicators of hydrologic and nutrient forcing features in estuaries (with R. Regal, University of Minnesota-Duluth, GLEI).
- Applying neural network analysis to classify land cover.
- Participants in the NSF-sponsored National Center for Airborne LiDAR Mapping (NCALM) to create a LiDAR DEM of the North Inlet marsh.
- Developing biomass size spectra approaches to categorize ecosystem status (with C. Rakocinski, CEER-GOM).
Hans Paerl co-chaired the Special Session SS02: "Indicators of Environmental Condition and Change Along the Freshwater-Marine Continuum" at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 2004 Summer Meeting held in Savannah, GA, June 15, 2004. The day-long special session included 17 oral presentations and 12 poster presentations. It focused on the ever-growing need for the development and deployment of physical, chemical, and biological indicators of environmental condition and change. In particular, indicators that can span the broad spatial and temporal ranges characterizing this continuum. It also addressed indicators that can couple ecosystem structure to function and are capable of being linked to evolving remote sensing technologies to facilitate "scaling up" assessments of ecological condition and change.
EaGLe Data and Metadata Archiving
The Atlantic Coast Environmental Indicators Consortium (ACE INC) data coordinator, L. Valdes, has continued to work closely with the EaGLe Data Management Committee (EDC) to archive the data (and associated metadata) collected by ACE INC investigators during the funding period. The EDC, which is comprised of one data manager from each EaGLe research center, was created immediately following the 2002 EaGLe Annual Meeting, where the need to archive and store the large amounts of high-quality EaGLe data became apparent. The data will be made available to future investigators. This was particularly necessary for the long-term monitoring datasets that can be used as important baseline information in future studies.
A total of 53 experimental and environmental monitoring datasets were generated by the ACE INC component projects (Table 1). As we near the end of the project, metadata has already been created for the majority of these datasets. Proper metadata, or information about the dataset, is necessary to make the datasets useful and to ensure their correct interpretation in the future. It includes items such as purpose of data collection and station selection; geographic, temporal and taxonomic coverage; and units, methods, and quality control. The metadata for these 53 datasets are currently being entered by L. Valdes and H. Marshall into the Web-based metadata tables developed by the EDC in collaboration with EPA's Environmental Information Management System (EIMS) and the Computer Sciences Corporation.
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Subbasin Boundary for Club Head Creek |
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Channel Network Centerline for |
Boundary for |
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Channel Network Centerline with Topology for |
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NOAA Topographic Sheet T-11153 in MA SPCS |
Channel and Ditch Network for Rowley River Subbasins |
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Subbasin Boundary for |
Tidal Marsh and |
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Channel Network Centerline for |
Subbasin Boundary for Shad Creek |
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Channel Network Centerline for |
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Channel and Ditch Network for |
Channel Network Centerline with Topology for |
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Tidal Marsh and |
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Acrobat CTD Data, |
Zooplankton Species Composition |
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Acrobat CTD Data, |
Cruise Water Quality Data |
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Profiling CTD Data, |
Primary Productivity Data |
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Profiling CTD Data, |
Fish and Zooplankton Data: Tucker Trawl |
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Zooplankton Abundance & Size: Optical Plankton Counter/Acrobat |
Fish Lengths and Weights: Midwater Trawl |
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Zooplankton Abundance & Size: Tracor Acoustic Profiling System |
Fish Lengths and Weights: Bottom Trawl |
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Synthetic Algal Pigment Data |
Neural Network Data |
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Effects of Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Salinity Variations on the Pigment Content of Spartina alterniflora |
Marsh Feature Transects in Spartina alterniflora and Juncus Salt Marshes from Plum Island Estuary (MA) to Cocodrie (LA). |
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Hyperspectral Reflectance Remote Sensing of Coastal Wetland Health |
Photosynthetic Profiles of Spartina Alterniflora at |
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Variations in Marsh Platform Height and its Effect on Plant Growth and Marsh Stability |
Diurnal Changes in Photosynthesis in Spartina alterniflora During an In Situ Light Regime and a Laboratory Manipulated Light Regime |
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Marsh Elevation Data |
Diurnal Changes in Photosynthesis in Spartina alterniflora During In Situ Natural Growth |
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Hyperspectral Reflectance Remote Sensing of Coastal Wetland Health |
Currents, Turbulence and Vertical Profiles of Temp., Salinity, DO, turbidity and Fluorescence, Neuse River, NC |
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Microbial |
Seagrass Light Stress |
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Seagrass Leaf Reflectance Data |
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Water Quality in Estuarine Creeks bordering the
Neuse River Estuary and |
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Vertical Chlorophyll a Profiles |
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AVRIS Overflight Data |
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Seagrass Field Assays |
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This collaborative effort between the five EaGLe research centers (GLEI, CEER-GOM, PEEIR, ASC, and ACE INC) will ensure the preservation of these valuable datasets beyond the completion of the project. The EaGLe-developed data and metadata archival system is expected to be used and adopted by other projects funded by EPA, thereby allowing EPA to retain the data that is collected through its funding, and readily provide it to the public for their benefit.
Future Activities:
The 53 metadata tables will be uploaded and archived with their corresponding datasets on the EPA's EIMS by the end of summer 2005. At that time, the data will be made available only to project investigators as they work on publishing their results. By January 2008, datasets approved by the investigator will be made available to the public via the EIMS EaGLe Web portal.
Journal Articles: 90 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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Acker JG, Harding LW, Leptoukh G, Zhu T, Shen S. Remotely-sensed chl a at the Chesapeake Bay mouth is correlated with annual freshwater flow to Chesapeake Bay. Geophysical Research Letters 2005;32(5):L05601, doi:10.1029/2004GL021852. |
R828677 (Final) R828677C002 (Final) |
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Adolf JE, Stoecker DK, Harding Jr. LW. The balance of autotrophy and heterotrophy during mixotrophic growth of Karlodinium micrum (Dinophyceae). Journal of Plankton Research 2006;28(8):737-751. |
R828677 (Final) R828677C002 (Final) |
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Adolf JE, Yeager CL, Miller WD, Mallonee ME, Harding Jr. LW. Environmental forcing of phytoplankton floral composition, biomass, and primary productivity in Chesapeake Bay, USA. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 2006;67(1-2):108-122. |
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Arhonditsis GB, Paerl HW, Valdes-Weaver LM, Stow CA, Steinberg LJ, Reckhow KH. Application of Bayesian structural equation modeling for examining phytoplankton dynamics in the Neuse River Estuary (North Carolina, USA). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2007;72(1-2):63-80. |
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Arhonditsis GB, Stow CA, Paerl HW, Valdes-Weaver LM, Steinberg LJ, Reckhow KH. Delineation of the role of nutrient dynamics and hydrologic forcing on phytoplankton patterns along a freshwater-marine continuum. Ecological Modelling 2007;208(2-4):230-246. |
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Becker M, Luettich R, Seim H. Effects of intratidal and tidal range variability on circulation and salinity structure in the Cape Fear River Estuary, North Carolina. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS 2009;114. |
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Becker M, Luettich R, Mallin M. Hydrodynamic behavior of the Cape Fear River and estuarine system:A synthesis and observational investigation of discharge-salinity intrusion relationships. ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE 2010;88(3):407-418. |
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Biber PD, Harwell MA, Cropper, Jr. WP. Modeling the dynamics of three functional groups of macroalgae in tropical seagrass habitats. Ecological Modeling (accepted, 2003). |
R828677C004 (2003) R827453 (2002) |
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Biber PD, Snedaker SC. Measuring the effects of salinity stress in the Red Mangrove, Rhizophora Mangle L. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology (submitted, 2005). |
R828677C004 (2004) |
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Biber PD. Hydroponic versus rooted growth of Zostera marina L. (Eelgrass). Hydrobiologia 2006;568(1):489-492. |
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Biber PD, Irlandi EA. Temporal and spatial dynamics of macroalgal communities along an anthropogenic salinity gradient in Biscayne Bay. Aquatic Botany 2006;85(1):65-77. |
R828677C004 (Final) |
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Biber PD, Gallegos CL, Kenworthy WJ. Calibration of a bio-optical model in the North River, North Carolina (Albemarle-Pamlico Sound): a tool to evaluate water quality impacts on seagrasses. Estuaries and Coasts 2008;31(1):177-191. |
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Biber PD, Kenworthy WJ, Paerl HW. Experimental analysis of the response and recovery of Zostera marina (L.) and Halodule wrightii (Ascher.) to repeated light-limitation stress. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 2009;369(2):110-117. |
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Buzzelli CP, Luettich Jr. RA, Powers SP, Peterson CH, McNinch JE, Pinckney JL, Paerl HW. Estimating the spatial extent of bottom-water hypoxia and habitat degradation in a shallow estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2002;230:103-112. |
R828677 (2001) R828677C001 (Final) R826938 (2000) R826938 (Final) R827957 (Final) |
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Buzzelli CP, Ramus JR, Paerl HW. Ferry-based monitoring of surface water quality in North Carolina estuaries. Estuaries and Coasts 2003;26(4):975-984. |
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Cavatorta JR, Johnston M, Hopkinson C, Valentine V. Patterns of sedimentation in a salt marsh-dominated estuary. Biological Bulletin 2003;205(2):239-241. |
R828677C003 (2003) R828677C003 (Final) |
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Conley DJ, Paerl HW, Howarth RW, Boesch DF, Seitzinger SP, Havens KE, Lancelot C, Likens GE. Ecology. Controlling eutrophication: nitrogen and phosphorus. Science 2009;323(5917):1014-1015. |
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Farber S, Costanza R, Childers DL, Erikson J, Gross K, Grove M, Hopkinson CS, Kahn J, Pincetl S, Troy A, Warren P, Wilson M. Linking ecology and economics for ecosystem management. BioScience 2006;56(2):121-133. |
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Fear J, Gallo T, Hall N, Loftin J, Paerl H. Predicting benthic microalgal oxygen and nutrient flux responses to a nutrient reduction management strategy for the eutrophic Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, USA. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2004;61(3):491-506. |
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Gallegos CL, Biber PD. Diagnostic tool help set water quality targets for restoring submerged aquatic vegetation in Chesapeake Bay. Ecological Restoration 2004;22(4):1441-1451 |
R828677C004 (2004) R828684C002 (2004) |
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Groffman PM, Baron JS, Blett T, Gold AJ, Goodman I, Gunderson LH, Levinson BM, Palmer MA, Paerl HW, Peterson GD, Poff NL, Rejeski DW, Reynolds JF, Turner MG, Weathers KC, Wiens J. Ecological thresholds: the key to successful environmental management or an important concept with no practical application? Ecosystems 2006;9(1):1-13. |
R828677C001 (Final) R828012 (Final) R832441 (Final) R832445 (Final) |
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Hall NS, Litaker RW, Fensin E, Adolf JE, Bowers HA, Place AR, Paerl HW. Environmental factors contributing to the development and demise of a toxic dinoflagellate (Karlodinium veneficum) bloom in a shallow, eutrophic, lagoonal estuary. Estuaries and Coasts 2008;31(2):402-418. |
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Harding Jr. LW, Mallonee ME, Perry ES. Toward a predictive understanding of primary productivity in a temperate, partially stratified estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2002;55(3):437-463. |
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Harding Jr. LW, Magnuson A, Mallonee ME. SeaWiFS retrievals of chlorophyll in Chesapeake Bay and the mid-Atlantic bight. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2005;62(1-2):75-94. |
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Huang X, Morris JT. Trends in phosphatase activity along a successional gradient of tidal freshwater marshes on the Cooper River, South Carolina. Estuaries 2003;26(5):1281-1290. |
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Irlandi EA, Orlando BA, Biber PD. Drift algae-epiphyte-seagrass interactions in a subtropical Thalassia testudinum meadow. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 2004;279:81-91. |
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Jensen JR, Olsen G, Schill SR, Porter DE, Morris J. Remote sensing of biomass, leaf-area-index and chlorophyll a and b content in the ACE Basin and National Estuarine Research Reserve using sub-meter digital camera imagery. Geocarto International 2002;17(3):27-36. |
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Johnston ME, Cavatorta JR, Hopkinson CS, Valentine V. Importance of metabolism in the development of salt marsh ponds. Biological Bulletin 2003;205(2):248-249. |
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Jung S, Houde ED. Production of bay anchovy Anchoa mitchilli in Chesapeake Bay: application of size-based theory. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2004;281:217-232. |
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Jung S, Houde ED. Fish biomass size spectra in Chesapeake Bay. Estuaries and Coasts 2005;28(2):226-240. |
R828677 (Final) R828677C002 (2002) R828677C002 (Final) |
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Kemp WM, Boynton WR, Adolf JE, Boesch DF, Boicourt WC, Brush G, Cornwell JC, Fisher TR, Glibert PM, Hagy JD, Harding LW, Houde ED, Kimmel DG, Miller WD, Newell RIE, Roman MR, Smith EM, Stevenson JC. Eutrophication of Chesapeake Bay:historical trends and ecological interactions. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2005;303:1-29. |
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Kimmel DG, Roman MR. Long-term trends in mesozooplankton abundance in Chesapeake Bay, USA:influence of freshwater input. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2004;267:71-83. |
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Kimmel DG, Roman MR, Zhang X. Spatial and temporal variability in factors affecting mesozooplankton dynamics in Chesapeake Bay:evidence from biomass size spectra. Limnology and Oceanography 2005;51(1):131-141. |
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Kimmel DG, Miller WD, Roman MR. Regional scale climate forcing of mesozooplankton dynamics in Chesapeake Bay. Estuaries and Coasts 2006;29(3):375-387. |
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Kimmel DG, Miller WD, Harding Jr. LW, Houde ED, Roman MR. Estuarine ecosystem response captured using a synoptic climatology. Estuaries and Coasts 2009;32(3):403-409. |
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Leonard JA, Paerl HW. Zooplankton community structure, micro-zooplankton grazing impact, and seston energy content in the St. Johns River System, Florida as influenced by the toxic cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsisraciborskii. Hydrobiologia 2005;537(1-3):89-97. |
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Luettich RA, Carr SD, Reynolds-Fleming JV, Fulcher CW, McNinch JE. Semi-diurnal seiching in a shallow, micro-tidal lagoonal estuary. Continental Shelf Research 2002;22(11-13):1669-1681. |
R828677C001 (2002) R828677C001 (2003) R826938 (2000) R826938 (2001) R826938 (Final) |
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Lunetta RS, Knight JF, Paerl HW, Streicher JJ, Peierls BL, Gallo T, Lyon JG, Mace TH, Buzzelli CP. Measurement of water colour using AVIRIS imagery to assess the potential for an operational monitoring capability in the Pamlico Sound Estuary, USA. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2009;30(13):3291-3314. |
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Magnuson A, Harding Jr. LW, Mallonee ME, Adolf JE. Bio-optical model for Chesapeake Bay and the Middle Atlantic Bight. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2004;61(3):403-424. |
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Miller WD, Kimmel DG. Synoptic climatology predictions of freshwater flow to Chesapeake Bay. Water Resources Research (in preparation, 2004). |
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Miller WD, Harding LW Jr. Synoptic-scale climatic forcing of spring phytoplankton biomass in Chesapeake Bay. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (in preparation, 2004). |
R828677C002 (2003) |
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Miller WD, Kimmel DG, Harding Jr. LW. Predicting spring discharge of the Susquehanna River from a winter synoptic climatology for the eastern United States. Water Resources Research 2006;42(5):W05414, doi:10.1029/2005WR004270. |
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Millie DF, Weckman GR, Paerl HW, Pinckney JL, Bendis BJ, Pigg RJ, Fahnenstiel GL. Neural net modeling of estuarine indicators: hindcasting phytoplankton biomass and net ecosystem production in the Neuse (North Carolina) and Trout (Florida) Rivers, USA. Ecological Indicators 2006;6(3):589-608. |
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Moisander PH, Piehler MF, Paerl HW. Diversity and activity of epiphytic nitrogen-fixers on standing dead stems of the salt marsh grass Spartina alterniflora. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 2005;39(3):271-279. |
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Montane JM, Torres R. Accuracy of LiDAR in a Salt Marsh Environment. Remote Sensing of the Environment (in review, 2005). |
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Montane JM, Torres R. Accuracy assessment of Lidar saltmarsh topographic data using RTK GPS. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 2006;72(8):961-967. |
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Morris JT, Sundareshwar PV, Nietch CT, Kjerfve B, Cahoon DR. Responses of coastal wetlands to rising sea level. Ecology 2002;83(10):2869-2877. |
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Morris JT, Porter D, Neet M, Noble PA, Schmidt L, Lapine LA, Jensen JR. Integrating LIDAR elevation data, multi-spectral imagery and neural network modelling for marsh characterization. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2005;26(23):5221-5234. |
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Morris JT. Scale-dependent responses of coastal wetlands to rising sea level. Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science (submitted, 2005). |
R828677C003 (2004) |
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Mwamba MJ, Torres R. Rainfall effects on marsh sediment redistribution, North Inlet, SC. Marine Geology 2002;189(3-4):267-287. |
R828677C003 (2002) R828677C003 (2003) |
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Niemi G, Wardrop D, Brooks R, Anderson S, Brady V, Paerl H , Rakocinski C, Brouwer M, Levinson B, McDonald M. Rationale for a new generation of indicators for coastal waters. Environmental Health Perspectives 2004;112(9):979-986. |
R828677C001 (Final) R828675 (2004) R828675 (Final) R828684 (Final) R829458C003 (2003) R829458C008 (2003) R829458C008 (2004) |
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Noble PA, Tymowski RG, Fletcher M, Morris JT, Lewitus AJ. Contrasting patterns of phytoplankton community pigment composition in two salt marsh estuaries in southeastern United States. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2003;69(7):4129-4143. |
R828677C003 (2003) R826944 (2000) R826944 (Final) R829458C004 (2003) R829458C004 (2005) |
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Novakowski KI, Torres R, Gardner LR. Geomorphic analysis of tidal creek networks. Water Resources Research 2004;40(5):W05401. |
R828677C003 (2004) R828677C003 (Final) |
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Paerl HW. Connecting atmospheric nitrogen deposition to coastal eutrophication. Environmental Science & Technology 2002;36(15):323A-326A. |
R828677C001 (2002) R828677C001 (2003) R828677C001 (Final) R826938 (Final) |
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Paerl HW, Dennis RL, Whitall DR. Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen: implications for nutrient over-enrichment of coastal waters. Estuaries and Coasts 2002;25(4):677-693. |
R828677C001 (Final) R826938 (2001) R826938 (Final) |
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Paerl HW, Dyble J, Twomey L, Pinckney JL, Nelson J, Kerkhof L. Characterizing man-made and natural modifications of microbial diversity and activity in coastal ecosystems. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology 2002;81(1-4):487-507. |
R828677 (2001) R828677 (Final) R828677C001 (2002) R828677C001 (2003) |
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Paerl HW, Dyble J, Moisander PH, Noble RT, Piehler MF, Pinckney JL, Steppe TF, Twomey LJ, Valdes LM. Microbial indicators of aquatic ecosystem change: current applications to eutrophication studies. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 2003;46(3):233-246. |
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Paerl HW, Steppe TF, Buchan KC, Potts M. Hypersaline cyanobacterial mats as indicators of elevated tropical hurricane activity and associated climate change. Ambio 2003;32(2):87-90. |
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Paerl HW, Steppe TF. Scaling up: the next challenge in environmental microbiology. Environmental Microbiology 2003;5(11):1025-1038. |
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Paerl HW, Valdes LM, Pinckney JL, Piehler MF, Dyble J, Moisander PH. Phytoplankton photopigments as indicators of estuarine and coastal eutrophication. BioScience 2003;53(10):953-964. |
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Paerl HW, Valdes LM, Joyner AB, Piehler MF. Solving problems resulting from solutions: Evolution of a dual nutrient management strategy for the eutrophying Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina. Environmental Science & Technology 2004;38(11):3068-3073. |
R828677C001 (2003) R828677C001 (2004) |
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Paerl HW, Valdes LM, Joyner AR, Peierls BL, Piehler MF, Riggs SR, Christian RR, Eby LA, Crowder LB, Ramus JS, Clesceri EJ, Buzzelli CP, Luettich RA. Ecological response to hurricane events in the Pamlico Sound system, North Carolina, and implications for assessment and management in a regime of increased frequency. Estuaries and Coasts 2006;29(6):1033-1045. |
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Paerl HW, Valdes LM, Peierls BL, Adolf JE, Harding Jr LW. Anthropogenic and climatic influences on the eutrophication of large estuarine ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography 2006;51(1, Part 2):448-462. |
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Paerl HW. Assessing and managing nutrient-enhanced eutrophication in estuarine and coastal waters: interactive effects of human and climatic perturbations. Ecological Engineering 2006;26(1):40-54. |
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Paerl HW, Valdes LM, Piehler MF, Stow CA. Assessing the effects of nutrient management in an estuary experiencing climatic change: the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina. Environmental Management 2006;37(3):422-436. |
R828677C001 (Final) R830652 (2004) R830652 (2005) |
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Paerl HW, Valdes-Weaver LM, Joyner AR, Winkelmann V. Phytoplankton indicators of ecological change in the eutrophying Pamlico Sound system, North Carolina. Ecological Applications 2007;17(Suppl 5):S88-S101. |
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Paerl HW. Controlling eutrophication along the freshwater-marine continuum: dual nutrient (N and P) reductions are essential. Estuaries and Coasts 2009;32(4):593-601. |
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Paerl HW, Rossignol KL, Guajardo R, Hall NS, Joyner AR, Peierls BL, Ramus JS. FerryMon: ferry-based monitoring and assessment of human and climatically driven environmental change in the Albemarle-Pamlico Sound system. Environmental Science & Technology 2009;43(20):7609-7613. |
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Paerl HW, Rossignol KL, Hall SN, Peierls BL, Wetz MS. Phytoplankton community indicators of short-and long-term ecological change in the anthropogenically and climatically impacted Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, USA. Estuaries and Coasts 2010;33(2):485-497. |
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Paerl HW, Piehler MF, Valdes LM, Dyble J, Moisander PH, Pinckney JL, Steppe TF. Determining anthropogenic and climatically-induced change in aquatic ecosystems using microbial indicators: an integrative approach. Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 2005;29(1):89-133. |
R828677C001 (Final) R830652 (2005) |
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Peierls BL, Christian RR, Paerl HW. Water quality and phytoplankton as indicators of hurricane impacts on a large estuarine ecosystem. Estuaries and Coasts 2003;26(5):1329-1343. |
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Piehler MF, Dyble J, Moisander PH, Pinckney JL, Paerl HW. Effects of modified nutrient concentrations and ratios on the structure and function of the native phytoplankton community in the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, USA. Aquatic Ecology 2002;36(3):371-385. |
R828677C001 (Final) R826938 (Final) |
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Piehler MF, Twomey LJ, Hall NS, Paerl HW. Impacts of inorganic nutrient enrichment on phytoplankton community structure and function in Pamlico Sound, NC, USA. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2004;61(2):197-209. |
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Piehler MF, Dyble J, Moisander PH, Chapman AD, Hendrickson J, Paerl HW. Interactions between nitrogen dynamics and the phytoplankton community in Lake George, Florida, USA. Lake and Reservoir Management 2009;25(1):1-14. |
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Pinckney JL, Richardson TL, Millie DF, Paerl HW. Application of photopigment biomarkers for quantifying microalgal community composition and in situ growth rates. Organic Geochemistry 2001;32(4):585-595. |
R828677 (2001) R826938 (Final) |
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Reynolds-Fleming JV, Fleming JG, Luettich RA. Portable autonomous vertical profiler for estuarine applications. Estuaries and Coasts 2002;25(1):142-147. |
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Reynolds-Fleming JV, Luettich Jr. RA. Wind-driven lateral variability in a partially mixed estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2004;60(3):395-407. |
R828677C001 (2003) R826938 (Final) R827957 (Final) |
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Reynolds-Fleming JV, Luettich RA. Simulation of lateral salinity variability in a shallow, wind-driven estuary affected by fish kills. Ocean Dynamics (in preparation, 2004). |
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Roman MR, Boicourt WC, Kimmel DG, Miller WD, Adolf JE, Bichy J, Harding Jr. LW, Houde ED, Jung S, Zhang JX. Stimulation of plankton and fish abundance in Chesapeake Bay by Hurricane Isabel. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 2005;86(28):261-265. |
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Sundareshwar PV, Morris JT, Koepfler EK, Fornwalt B. Phosphorus limitation of coastal ecosystem processes. Science 2003;299(5606):563-565. |
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Torres R, Mwamba MJ, Goni MA. Properties of marsh sediment mobilized by low tide rainfall. Limnology and Oceanography 2003;48(3):1245-1253. |
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Torres R, Styles R. Effects of Salt Marsh topography on tidal asymmetry. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science (in review, 2005). |
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Tzortziou M, Herman JR, Gallegos CL, Neale PJ, Subramaniam A, Harding Jr. LW, Ahmad Z. Bio-optics of Chesapeake Bay from measurements and radiative transfer closure. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2006;68(1-2):348-362. |
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Vahatalo AV, Wetzel RG, Paerl HW. Light absorption by phytoplankton and chromophoric dissolved organic matter in the drainage basin and estuary of the Neuse River, North Carolina (U.S.A.). Freshwater Biology 2005;50(3):477-493. |
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Valdes-Weaver LM, Piehler MF, Pinckney JL, Howe KE, Rossignol K, Paerl HW. Long-term temporal and spatial trends in phytoplankton biomass and class-level taxonomic composition in the hydrologically variable Neuse-Pamlico estuarine continuum, North Carolina, USA. Limnology and Oceanography 2006;51(3):1410-1420. |
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Valentine V, Hopkinson, Jr. C. Investigating drainage density and fractal dimension as geomorphometric indicators of tidal marsh condition using remotely sensed data and geographical information systems. International Journal of Remote Sensing (in submission, 2004). |
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Valentine V, Hopkinson Jr. CS, Millette TL, Hayward CD, et al. Formation of ponds in marshes of the Plum Island Sound estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (submitted, 2005). |
R828677C003 (2004) |
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Wetz MS, Paerl HW. Estuarine phytoplankton responses to hurricanes and tropical storms with different characteristics (trajectory, rainfall, winds). Estuaries and Coasts 2008;31(2):419-429. |
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Whipple AC, Luettich RA, Seim HE. Measurements of Reynolds stress in a wind-driven lagoonal estuary. Ocean Dynamics 2006;56(3-4):169-185. |
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Yeager CLJ, Harding Jr. LW, Mallonee ME. Phytoplankton production, biomass and community structure following a summer nutrient pulse in Chesapeake Bay. Aquatic Ecology 2005;39(2):135-149. |
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Supplemental Keywords:
phytoplankton, macrophytes, submersed aquatic vegetation, zooplankton, fish, trophodynamics, water quality, size spectrum, coastal wetlands, habitat, bio-optics & turbidity, remote sensing, primary production, HPLC, photopigments, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, hydrology, circulation, nutrient management, regional scale indicators, ecosystem and regional scale, climatology, hurricanes, TMDLs, modeling, ferry-based monitoring,, RFA, Scientific Discipline, Air, Geographic Area, Water, Waste, Ecosystem Protection/Environmental Exposure & Risk, Hydrology, Nutrients, Bioavailability, Ecosystem/Assessment/Indicators, Ecosystem Protection, exploratory research environmental biology, State, climate change, Ecological Effects - Environmental Exposure & Risk, Microbiology, Ecological Risk Assessment, Biology, Geology, Ecological Indicators, anthropogenic stresses, bioindicator, coastal ecosystem, remote sensing, watershed analysis, Atlantic Coast Consortium, aquatic ecosystem, agriculturally impacted watershed, anthropogenic stress, environmental monitoring, hydrological stability, nutrient supply, nutrient transport, ecological exposure, risk assessment, CISNet, ecosystem assessment, Virginia (VA), watershed management, satellite imagery, ecosystem integrity, environmental stressor, hydrological, coastal environments, Coastal Intensive Site Network, biomonitoring, ecological assessment, ecosystem indicators, estuarine ecosystems, integrated assessment, Maryland (MD), plankton, sustainability, water quality, North Carolina (NC), environmental stressors, spatial and temporal patterns, Chesapeake BayRelevant Websites:
Progress and Final Reports:
Original Abstract Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R828677C001 Phytoplankton Community Structure as an Indicator of Coastal Ecosystem
Health
R828677C002 Trophic Indicators of Ecosystem Health in Chesapeake Bay
R828677C003 Coastal Wetland Indicators
R828677C004 Environmental Indicators in the Estuarine Environment: Seagrass Photosynthetic Efficiency as an Indicator of Coastal Ecosystem Health
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.