School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Submissions from 2018
Source-specific pollution exposure and associations with pulmonary response in the Atlanta Commuters Exposure Studies, Jenna R. Krall, Chandresh N. Ladva, Armistead G. Russell, Rachel Golan, Xing Peng, Guoliang Shi, Roby Greenwald, Amit U. Raysoni, Lance A. Waller, and Jeremy A. Sarnat
Particulate metal exposures induce plasma metabolome changes in a commuter panel study, Chandresh N. Ladva, Rachel Golan, Donghai Liang, Roby Greenwald, Douglas I. Walker, Amit U. Raysoni, ViLinh Tran, Tianwei Yu, W. Dana Flanders, and Gary W. Miller
Using Carbon Isotope Fractionation to Constrain the Extent of Methane Dissolution Into the Water Column Surrounding a Natural Hydrocarbon Gas Seep in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, M. Leonte, B. Wang, Scott A. Socolofsky, John A. Breier, and John D. Kessler
Improvement of soil structure through organic crop management, conservation tillage and grass-clover ley, Viviana Loaiza Puerta, Engil Isadora Pujol pereira, Raphaël Wittwer, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, and Johan Six
Annual Growth Rings in Two Mangrove Species from the Sundarbans, Bangladesh Demonstrate Linkages to Sea-Level Rise and Broad-Scale Ocean-Atmosphere Variability, Justin T. Maxwell, Grant L. Harley, and Abdullah F. Rahman
Climate and plant controls on soil organic matter in coastal wetlands, Michael J. Osland, Christopher A. Gabler, James B. Grace, Richard H. Day, Meagan L. McCoy, Jennie L. McLeod, Andrew S. From, NIcholas M. Enwright, Laura C. Feher, and Camille L. Stagg
Interactive effects of hypoxia and PCB co-exposure on expression of CYP1A and its potential regulators in Atlantic croaker liver, Md. Saydur Rahman and Peter Thomas
Wildlife warning reflectors and white canvas reduce deer–vehicle collisions and risky road-crossing behavior, Corinna Riginos, Morgan W. Graham, Melanie J. Davis, Andrew B. Johnson, Alexander B. May, Kevin W. Ryer, and L. Embere Hall
Preliminary Multivariate Comparison of Coral Assemblages on Carbonate Banks in the Western Gulf of Mexico, Rebekah E. Rodriguez, Erin E. Easton, Thomas C. Shirley, John W. Tunnell, and David Hicks
Extraction of metazoan meiofauna from muddy deep-sea samples: Operator and taxon effects on efficiency, Melissa Rohal, David Thistle, and Erin E. Easton
Speciation of Phosphorus Zinc and Copper in Soil and Water-Dispersible Colloid Affected by a Long-Term Application of Swine Manure Compost, Kosuke Yamamoto, Yohey Hashimoto, James Jihoon Kang, and Kazuki Kobayashi
Mesobot : An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Tracking and Sampling Midwater Targets, Dana R. Yoerger, Molly Curran, Justin Fujii, Christopher R. German, Daniel Gomez-Ibanez, Annette F. Govindarajan, Jonathan C. Howland, Joel K. Llopiz, Peter H. Wiebe, Brett W. Hobson, Kakani Katija, Michael Risi, Bruce H. Robison, Cailean J. Wilkinson, Stephen M. Rock, and John A. Breier
Submissions from 2017
Recruitment Patterns of Juvenile Fish at an Artificial Reef Area in the Gulf of Mexico, Rachel Noel Arney, Catheline Y. M. Froehlich, and Richard Kline
Validating Sidescan Sonar as a Fish Survey Tool over Artificial Reefs, Michael A. Bollinger and Richard Kline
Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Fish Distribution and Diversity in the Noxubee River, Mississippi and Alabama, Michael T. Calloway, Matt E. Roberts, and Christopher M. Taylor
Upscaling Capillary Pressure–Saturation Functions Using Different Reference Pressure Elevations, Chu-Lin Cheng, S. Clark Cropper, Edmund Perfect, Larry McKay, and Misun Kang
Impact of the capillary pressure-saturation pore-size distribution parameter on geological carbon sequestration estimates, Chu-Lin Cheng, Edmund Perfect, T. Edward Yu, and Michael J. Gragg
Early drivers of Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinans) leaf litter decomposition in the water column, Leticia M. Contreras, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo, and Carlos E. Cintra-Buenrostro
Decomposition and nitrogen dynamics of turtle grass (Thalassia testudinum) in a subtropical estuarine system, Monica Delgado, Carlos E. Cintra-Buenrostro, and Alejandro Fierro-Cabo
Diversity of deep-sea fishes of the Easter Island Ecoregion, Erin E. Easton, Javier Sellanes, Carlos F. Gaymer, Naiti A. Morales, Matthias Gorny, and Eric Berkenpas
Linear and nonlinear effects of temperature and precipitation on ecosystem properties in tidal saline wetlands, Laura C. Feher, Michael J. Osland, Kereen T. Griffith, James B. Grace, Rebecca J. Howard, Camille L. Stagg, Nicholas M. Enwright, Ken W. Krauss, Christopher A. Gabler, Richard H. Day, and Kerrylee Rogers
Linear and nonlinear effects of temperature and precipitation on ecosystem properties in tidal saline wetlands, Laura C. Feher, Michael J. Osland, Kereen T. Griffith, James B. Grace, Rebecca J. Howard, Camille L. Stagg, Nicholas M. Enwright, Ken W. Krauss, Christopher A. Gabler, Richard H. Day, and Kerrylee Rogers
Fish Assemblage Structure Indicates Limited Restoration Progress over a Lustrum of a Severely Degraded Estuary in Southern Tamaulipas, Mexico, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo and Carlos E. Cintra-Buenrostro
Climate controls over the net carbon uptake period and amplitude of net ecosystem production in temperate and boreal ecosystems, Zheng Fu, Paul C. Stoy, Yiqi Luo, Jiquan Chen, Jian Sun, Leonardo Montagnani, Georg Wohlfahrt, Abdullah F. Rahman, Serge Rambal, and Christian Bernhofer
Macroclimatic change expected to transform coastal wetland ecosystems this century, Christopher A. Gabler, Michael J. Osland, James B. Grace, Camille L. Stagg, Richard H. Day, Stephen B. Hartley, Nicholas M. Enwright, Andrew S. From, Meagan L. McCoy, and Jennie L. McLeod
The Morrosquillo Assemblage Revealed: Provenance and Context of a Refined Group of Ground-edge Stone Tools from the Caribbean Lowlands of Colombia, Juan L. González and James R. Hinthorne
Functional Predictions of Microbial Communities in Soil as Affected by Long‐term Tillage Practices, Janani Hariharan, Aditi Sengupta, Parwinder Grewal, and Warren A. Dick
Hydrologic Impacts of Bioswale Porous Media on Parking Lot Drainage, Jungseok Ho and James Jihoon Kang
pH effect on the formation of THM and HAA disinfection byproducts and potential control strategies for food processing, Yen-Con Hung, Brian W. Waters, Veerachandra K. Yemmireddy, and Ching-Hua Huang
Capturing species-level drought responses in a temperate deciduous forest using ratios of photochemical reflectance indices between sunlit and shaded canopies, Taehee Hwang, Hamed Gholizadeh, Daniel A. Sims, Kimberly A. Novick, Edward R. Brzostek, Richard P. Phillips, Daniel T. Roman, Scott M. Robeson, and Abdullah F. Rahman
Nitrate Leaching from Sand and Pumice Geomedia Amended with Pyrogenic Carbon Materials, James Jihoon Kang, Marissa Davila, Sergio Mireles, and Jungseok Ho
Impact of Salinity Change on Water Quality Variables from the Sediment of an Artificial Lake under Anaerobic Conditions, Tae-Hoon Kim, James Jihoon Kang, Sang Hyun Kim, I-Song Choi, Kwang-Hyeon Chang, Jong Min Oh, and Ki-Hyun Kim
Can ecosystem functional recovery be traced to decomposition and nitrogen dynamics in estuaries of the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas?, Mario A. Marquez, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo, and Carlos E. Cintra-Buenrostro
Mechanisms of Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) invasion and their management implications – A review, Lauren S. Pile, G. Geoff Wang, Jeremy P. Stovall, Evan Siemann, Gregory S. Wheeler, and Christopher A. Gabler
Molecular and biochemical responses of hypoxia exposure in Atlantic croaker collected from hypoxic regions in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Md. Saydur Rahman and Peter Thomas
Evaluation of sources and patterns of elemental composition of PM2. 5 at three low-income neighborhood schools and residences in Quito, Ecuador, Amit U. Raysoni, Rodrigo X. Armijos, M. Margaret Weigel, Patricia Echanique, Marcia Racines, Nicholas E. Pingitore, and Wen-Whai Li
Modeling the Population Effects of Hypoxia on Atlantic Croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Part 2—Realistic Hypoxia and Eutrophication, Kenneth A. Rose, Sean Creekmore, Dubravko Justić, Peter Thomas, J. Kevin Craig, Rachael Miller Neilan, Lixia Wang, Md Saydur Rahman, and David Kidwell
Modeling the Population Effects of Hypoxia on Atlantic Croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Part 1—Model Description and Idealized Hypoxia, Kenneth A. Rose, Sean Creekmore, Peter Thomas, J. Kevin Craig, Md. Saydur Rahman, and Rachael Miller Neilan
Institutional Features of U.S.-Canadian Transboundary Fisheries Governance: Organizations and Networks, Formal and Informal, Andrew M. Song, Owen Temby, Gail Krantzberg, and Gordon M. Hickey
Sorption of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) to K2Mn4O9 nanomaterial a study of the effect of pH, time, temperature and interferences, J. P. Valle, B. Gonzalez, J. Schulz, D. Salinas, U. Romero, Diego F. Gonzalez, Carolina Valdes, J. M. Cantu, Thomas Eubanks, and Jason Parsons
N2O emissions from California farmlands: A review, Elizabeth Verhoeven, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira, Charlotte Decock, Gina Garland, Taryn Kennedy, Emma Suddick, William Horwath, and Johan Six
Toward a Better Assessment of Biochar–Nitrous Oxide Mitigation Potential at the Field Scale, Elizabeth Verhoeven, Engil Isadora Pujol pereira, Charlotte Decock, Emma Suddick, Teri Angst, and Johan Six
Shrubs facilitate recruitment of Caragana stenophylla Pojark: microhabitat amelioration and protection against herbivory, Li-Na Xie, Hong-Yu Guo, Zhe Liu, Christopher A. Gabler, Wei-Zhong Chen, Song Gu, and Cheng-Cang Ma
A Novel Diffuse Fraction-Based Two-Leaf Light Use Efficiency Model: An Application Quantifying Photosynthetic Seasonality across 20 AmeriFlux Flux Tower Sites, Hao Yan, Shao-Qiang Wang, Kai-Liang Yu, Bin Wang, Qin Yu, Gil Bohrer, Dave Billesbach, Rosvel Bracho, Abdullah F. Rahman, and Herman H. Shugart
Photocatalytic TiO2 coating of plastic cutting board to prevent microbial cross-contamination, Veerachandra K. Yemmireddy and Yen-Con Hung
Using Photocatalyst Metal Oxides as Antimicrobial Surface Coatings to Ensure Food Safety—Opportunities and Challenges, Veerachandra K. Yemmireddy and Yen-Con Hung
Effect of Different Debranning Degrees on the Qualities of Whole Wheat Flour and Chinese Steamed Bread, Jikai Zhao, Fengcheng Wang, Wenjun Fu, and Mengjie Wang
Submissions from 2016
Metagenomic resolution of microbial functions in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes across the Eastern Lau Spreading Center, Karthik Anantharaman, John A. Breier, and Gregory J. Dick
Comparative Analysis of Xenorhabdus koppenhoeferi Gene Expression during Symbiotic Persistence in the Host Nematode, Ruisheng An and Parwinder Grewal
Mapping spatial distribution and biomass of coastal wetland vegetation in Indonesian Papua by combining active and passive remotely sensed data, Aslan Aslan, Abdullah Rahman, Matthew W. Warren, and Scott M. Robeson
New applications of KNiFC-PAN resin for broad scale monitoring of radiocesium following the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster, Crystaline F. Breier, S. Pike, F. Sebesta, Kaitlyn Tradd, John A. Breier, and K. O. Buesseler
Capillary pressure – saturation relationships for gas shales measured using a water activity meter, B. Donnelly, E. Perfect, L. D. McKay, P. J. Lemiszki, V. H. DiStefano, L. M. Anovitz, J. McFarlane, R. E. Hale, and Chu-Lin Cheng
Do some deep‐sea, sediment‐dwelling species of harpacticoid copepods have 1000‐km‐scale range sizes?, Erin E. Easton and David Thistle
The Late Quaternary Rio Grande Delta—A Distinctive, Underappreciated Geologic System, Thomas E. Ewing and Juan L. Gonzalez
Potential and timescales for oxygen depletion in coastal upwelling systems: A box-model analysis, Cheryl S. Harrison, B. Hales, S. Siedlecki, and R. M. Samelson
Taming Turbidity: Using passive dosing with polyacrylamide to treat turbid storm water, James Jihoon Kang and Richard A. McLaughlin
Chemical flocculation for removing bentonite spills in water, James Jihoon Kang, Jacob D. Wiseman, McKhenzy A. Welch, and Richard A. McLaughlin
Watershed Modeling and Sediment Yield Prediction of the Los Olmos Creek Watershed in South Texas, Rockford Miller, Jungseok Ho, and Chu-Lin Cheng
Adsorptive and kinetic characterization of aqueous zinc removal by biochars, Sergio Mireles, Yongsik Ok, Chu-Lin Cheng, and James Jihoon Kang
Beyond just sea-level rise: considering macroclimatic drivers within coastal wetland vulnerability assessments to climate change, Michael J. Osland, Nicholas M. Enwright, Richard H. Day, Christopher A. Gabler, Camille L. Stagg, and James B. Grace
Carbon Abatement and Emissions Associated with the Gasification of Walnut Shells for Bioenergy and Biochar Production, Engil Isadora Pujol pereira, Emma C. Suddick, and Johan Six
Assessment of Indoor and Outdoor PM Species at Schools and Residences in a High-Altitude Ecuadorian Urban Center, Amit U. Raysoni, Rodrigo X. Armijos, M. Margaret Weigel, Teresa Montoya, Patricia Eschanique, Marcia Racines, and Wen-Whai Li
Assessing transboundary scientific collaboration in the Great Lakes of North America, Andrew M. Song, Gordon M. Hickey, Owen Temby, and Gail Krantzberg
Effects of grazing intensity on seed production of Caragana stenophylla along a climatic aridity gradient in the Inner Mongolia Steppe, China, Lina Xie, Weizhong Chen, Christopher A. Gabler, Lei Han, Hongyu Guo, Qing Chen, Chengcang Ma, and Song Gu
Submissions from 2015
Lateral Dispersal and Foraging Behavior of Entomopathogenic Nematodes in the Absence and Presence of Mobile and Non-Mobile Hosts, Harit K. Bal and Parwinder Grewal
Exploring origins, invasion history and genetic diversity of Imperata cylindrica (L.) P. Beauv. (Cogongrass) in the United States using genotyping by sequencing, A Millie Burrell, Alan E. Pepper, George Hodnett, John A. Goolsby, William A. Overholt, Alexis Racelis, Rodrigo Diaz, and Patricia E. Klein
Rapid imbibition of water in fractures within unsaturated sedimentary rock, Chu-Lin Cheng, E. Perfect, B. Donnelly, H. Z. Bilheux, A. S. Tremsin, L. D. McKay, V. H. DiStefano, J. C. Cai, and L. J. Santodonato
Mitigating N2O emissions from soil: from patching leaks to transformative action, C. Decock, Juhwan Lee, M. Necpalova, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira, D. M. Tendall, and Johan Six
Particle dynamics in the rising plume at Piccard Hydrothermal Field, Mid-Cayman Rise, Margaret L. Estapa, John A. Breier, and Chris R. German
Octocoral Mitochondrial Genomes Provide Insights into the Phylogenetic History of Gene Order Rearrangements, Order Reversals, and Cnidarian Phylogenetics, Diego F. Figueroa and Amy R. Baco
Using Fish Population Metrics to Compare the Effects of Artificial Reef Density, Catheline Y. M. Froehlich and Richard Kline
Species- and stage-specific barnacle larval distributions obtained from AUV sampling and genetic analysis in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, USA, Annette F. Govindarajan, Jesus Pineda, Mike Purcell, and John A. Breier
Empirical Modelling of Solid-blocking Effect in a Blazka Respirometer for Gag, a Large Demersal Reef Fish, Richard J. Kline, Daryl C. Parkyn, and Debra J. Murie
Genomic and transcriptomic evidence for scavenging of diverse organic compounds by widespread deep-sea archaea, Meng Li, Brett J. Baker, Karthik Anantharaman, Sunit Jain, John A. Breier, and Gregory J. Dick
Modification of Traffic-related Respiratory Response by Asthma Control in a Population of Car Commuters, Maria C. Mirabelli, Rachel Golan, Roby Greenwald, Amit U. Raysoni, Fernando Holguin, Priya Kewada, Andrea Winquist, W Dana Flanders, and Jeremy A. Sarnat
Desertification, salinization, and biotic homogenization in a dryland river ecosystem, Seiji Miyazono, Reynaldo Patiño, and Christopher M. Taylor
Biochar alters nitrogen transformations but has minimal effects on nitrous oxide emissions in an organically managed lettuce mesocosm, Engil Isadora Pujol pereira, Emma C. Suddick, India Mansour, Fungai N. D. Mukome, Sanjai J. Parikh, Kate Scow, and Johan Six
Predicting the response of the deep-ocean microbiome to geochemical perturbations by hydrothermal vents, Daniel C. Reed, John A. Breier, Houshuo Jiang, Karthik Anantharaman, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Brandy M. Toner, Cathrine Hancock, and Kevin Speer
Microbial iron mats at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and evidence that Zetaproteobacteria may be restricted to iron-oxidizing marine systems, Jarrod J. Scott, John A. Breier, George W. Luther III, and David Emerson
Spatially resolved sampling reveals dynamic microbial communities in rising hydrothermal plumes across a back-arc basin, Cody S. Sheik, Karthik Anantharaman, John A. Breier, Jason B. Sylvan, Katrina J. Edwards, and Gregory J. Dick
Iron-mediated stabilization of soil carbon amplifies the benefits of ecological restoration in degraded lands, Lucas C. R. Silva, Timothy A. Doane, Rodrigo S. Correa, Vinicius Valverde, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira, and William R. Horwath
A numerical study on fractal dimensions of current streamlines in two-dimensional and three-dimensional pore fractal models of porous media, Wei Wei, Jianchao Cai, Xiangyun Hu, Ping Fan, Qi Han, Jinge Lu, Chu-Lin Cheng, and Feng Zhou
Changes in Spatial Patterns of Caragana stenophylla along a Climatic Drought Gradient on the Inner Mongolian Plateau, Li-Na Xie, Hong-Yu Guo, Christopher A. Gabler, Qing-Fang Li, and Cheng-Cang Ma
Mycorrhizal associations of an invasive tree are enhanced by both genetic and environmental mechanisms, Qiang Yang, Shujuan Wei, Lei Shang, Juli Carrilo, Christopher A. Gabler, Somereet Nijjer, Bo Li, and Evan Siemann
Effect of binder on the physical stability and bactericidal property of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanocoatings on food contact surfaces, Veerachandra K. Yemmireddy and Yen-Con Hung
Submissions from 2014
Identification and Characterization of Membrane Androgen Receptors in the ZIP9 Zinc Transporter Subfamily: I. Discovery in Female Atlantic Croaker and Evidence ZIP9 Mediates Testosterone-Induced Apoptosis of Ovarian Follicle Cells, A. Håkan Berg, Charles D. Rice, Md. Saydur Rahman, Jing Dong, and Peter Thomas
Generalized modeling of spontaneous imbibition based on Hagen–Poiseuille flow in tortuous capillaries with variably shaped apertures, Jianchao Cai, Edmund Perfect, Chu-Lin Cheng, and Xiangyun Hu
The mitochondrial genomes of Amphiascoides atopus and Schizopera knabeni (Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) reveal similarities between the copepod orders Harpacticoida and Poecilostomatoida, Erin E. Easton, Emily M. Darrow, Trisha Spears, and David Thistle
An effective procedure for DNA isolation and voucher recovery from millimeter-scale copepods and new primers for the 18S rRNA and cytb genes, Erin E. Easton and David Thistle
First record of the tropical house gecko Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818) in Texas, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo and August Rentfro
Characteristics and genesis of El Sauz chert, an important prehistoric lithic resource in south Texas, Juan L. Gonzalez, James R. Hinthorne, Russell K. Skowronek, Thomas Eubanks, and Don Kumpe
Granular and Dissolved Polyacrylamide Effects on Erosion and Runoff under Simulated Rainfall, James Jihoon Kang, Aziz Amoozegar, Joshua L. Heitman, and Richard A. McLaughlin
Turbidimetric Determination of Anionic Polyacrylamide in Low Carbon Soil Extracts, James Jihoon Kang, Tyler D. Sowers, Owen W. Duckworth, Aziz Amoozegar, Joshua L. Heitman, and Richard A. McLaughlin
Multiple pixel-scale soil water retention curves quantified by neutron radiography, M. Kang, Edmund Perfect, Chu-Lin Cheng, H. Z. Bilheux, J. Lee, J. Horita, and J. M. Warren
CCA-sponsored Nearshore Reefs: UT-Brownsville researchers report culverts deployed in 2011 now harbor large populations of red snapper, Richard J. Kline
Microbial iron uptake as a mechanism for dispersing iron from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, Meng Li, Brandy M. Toner, Brett J. Baker, John A. Breier, Cody S. Sheik, and Gregory J. Dick
Flocculated Sediment and Runoff Quality Improvement by Polyacrylamide, Richard A. McLaughlin, James Jihoon Kang, Scott King, and Jacob D. Wiseman
Influence of constant and periodic experimental hypoxic stress on Atlantic croaker otolith chemistry, John Mohan, Md. Saydur Rahman, Peter Thomas, and Benjamin Walther
Neutron imaging of hydrogen-rich fluids in geomaterials and engineered porous media: A review, Edmund Perfect, Chu-Lin Cheng, M. Kang, H. Z. Bilheux, J. M. Lamanna, M. J. Gragg, and D. M. Wright
Restoration of tryptophan hydroxylase functions and serotonin content in the Atlantic croaker hypothalamus by antioxidant treatment during hypoxic stress, Md. Saydur Rahman and Peter Thomas
