What's New in the Department?

• Environmental Science professor invited to China climate change conference
• Professor wins National Science Foundation grant for Everglades research
• Barnali Dixon’s groundbreaking research recognized at national NIH conference
• Progress Energy Foundation Gift Benefits USFSP Initiatives

New publications:

Liu, G., Liu, Z., Chen, F., Zhang, Z., Gu, B. and J.M. Smoak;  Response of Cladoceran community to eutrophication, fish introduction and degradation of macrophyte vegetation in Lake Dianchi, a large, shallow plateau lake in southwest China, Limnology 14, 159-166, 2013.

Smoak, J.M., Breithaupt, J., Smith III, T.J. and C.J. Sanders; Sediment accretion and organic carbon burial relative to sea-level rise and storm events in two mangrove forest in Everglades National Park, Catena, 104, 58-66, 2013.

Waters, M.N., Smoak, J.M. and C.J. Saunders; Historic primary producer communities linked to phosphorus dynamics in the northern Florida Everglades, Journal of Paleolimnology 49, 67-81, 2013.

Baumstark, R.,  Dixon B., Carlson P., Palandro, D., and K. Kolasa. Alternative spatially enhanced integrative techniques for mapping seagrass in Florida’s marine ecosystem. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 34(4), 1248–1264, 2013.

Dixon, B and Earls, J. Effects of Urbanization on Streamflow Using SWAT with Real and Simulated Meteorological Data. Applied Geography Journal. 35(1): 174-190, 2012.

Samui, P. and Dixon B. Application of Support Vector Machine and Relevance Vector Machine to Determine Evaporative losses in reservoir. Hydrological Processes. Volume 26, Issue 9, pages 1361–1369. (DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8278, Sep8, 2011), 2012.

Smoak, J.M., Sanders, C.J., Patchineelam, S.R. and W.S. Moore; Radium mass balance and submarine groundwater discharge in Sepetiba Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 39, 44-51, 2012.

Breithaupt, J.L., Smoak, J.M., Smith, T.J., Sanders, C.J. and A. Hoare; Mangrove organic carbon burial rates: strengthening the global budget, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26, GB3011, 2012.

Waters, M.N., Piehler, M.F., Smoak, J.M. and T.S. Bianchi; Historic algal community responses to dystrophication of a shallow lake, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 69(8), 1433-1443, 2012.

Sanders, C.J., Smoak, J.M., Waters, M. N. Sanders, L. M. Brandini, N., Patchineelam,S.R. Organic matter content and particle size modifications in mangrove sediments as responses to sea level rise, Marine Environmental Research, 77, 150-155, 2012.

Casper, F., B. Dixon, Steimle, E.T, Hall, M.L, and R.N. Conmy. High Resolution Mapping of the Spatial Variability of Water Quality in a River: Improvements from Integration of Geospatial and Sensor Technologies with Unmanned Surface Vehicles. Applied Geography. 32(2): 455 – 464, 2012.

Sanders, C. J., Smoak, J. M., Patchineelam, S. R. and P.H. Cable; Lead-210 and Berilium-7 fallout rates on the southeastern coast of Brazil, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 102, 1122-1125, 2011.

Patchineelam, S.M., Sanders, C.J., Smoak, J.M., Zem, R.C., Oliveira, G. and S.R.Patchineelam; A Historical Evaluation of Anthropogenic Impact in Coastal Ecosystems through Geochemical Signatures,Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, 22(1), 120-125, 2011.

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